Amy Taylor (musician)

Taylor's mother worked at the post office before studying and practising as a psychologist, and her father was a crane-driver and bottle-shop worker who built their house out of repurposed rocks. Taylor's parents moved to Mullumbimby, "counterculture capital of the country", from Western Sydney in the early 1990s and turned more than a hectare of subdivided farmland into bush. Taylor has one older sister, Grace, and the family lived out of one bedroom divided by curtains until Taylor was nine. Taylor reminisces about growing up in Mullumbimby in the Amyl and the Sniffers song 'Snakes', on the band's second album Comfort to Me. "Dad was a craney and mum worked and studied, I was swimming in the brunny, I was buckteeth and pale". Taylor worked full-time at her local IGA supermarket after finishing high school and saved money to move to the outer-western suburb of Laverton, Melbourne, aged 19. == Music career ==

Taylor completed an apprenticeship at a chemical company, selling gas cylinders for $11 an hour while studying music business at night at TAFE. Taylor went to live music shows almost every week and enjoyed freestyle rapping, meeting her future bandmates at these gigs or in shared houses. In 2018, Taylor was able to quit her job working at the “scoop and weigh” fruit and nut section at Coles to go on tour with the band. Taylor and Mehrtens relocated to Los Angeles in between touring. == Activism ==

In June 2022 Taylor's performance repeating “F--- the Supreme Court!” went viral at the Glastonbury Festival following news that Roe v Wade had been overturned (the landmark decision protecting national abortion rights for American women) in the Supreme Court of the United States. In January 2022, the band opened for the Sydney Festival, despite the large boycott owing to the festival's financial support from the Israeli government. After hearing about the financial backing, Taylor said the performance was a mistake and that the band donated their festival fee to the Olive Kids foundation, which supports Palestinian children. In mid-2022, Taylor dedicated a performance of "GFY (Go F--- Yourself)" at the Forum Theatre to Pauline Hanson, days after Hanson launched a campaign to say no to an Indigenous Voice to Parliament. == Personal life ==

Taylor is friends with Karen O of the Yeah Yeah Yeahs and Arrow De Wilde of Starcrawler. == Awards ==

APRA Music Awards The APRA Music Awards were established by Australasian Performing Right Association (APRA) in 1982 to honour the achievements of songwriters and music composers, and to recognise their song writing skills, sales and airplay performance, by its members annually. == References ==