	{"id":119326,"date":"2025-11-21T11:27:54","date_gmt":"2025-11-21T00:27:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/timesnewsgroup.com.au\/byroncoasttimes\/?p=119326"},"modified":"2025-11-21T15:47:55","modified_gmt":"2025-11-21T04:47:55","slug":"ex-mullumbimby-iga-worker-sweeps-the-aria-awards","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/timesnewsgroup.com.au\/byroncoasttimes\/news\/ex-mullumbimby-iga-worker-sweeps-the-aria-awards\/","title":{"rendered":"Ex-Mullumbimby IGA worker sweeps the ARIA Awards"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>MULLUMBIMBY-raised rocker Amy Taylor has taken home a swag of trophies at this year\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.aria.com.au\/awards\/\">ARIA Awards<\/a>, with her pub-rock-meets-punk outfit <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amylandthesniffers.com\/\">Amyl and the Sniffers<\/a> dominating the night.<\/p>\n<p>The band claimed Album of the Year, Best Rock Album and Best Cover Art for their latest release <a href=\"https:\/\/amylandthesniffers.bandcamp.com\/album\/cartoon-darkness\"><em>Cartoon Darkness<\/em>,<\/a> along with the coveted Best Group award at the ceremony held at Sydney\u2019s Hordern Pavilion.<\/p>\n<p>Taylor \u2014 who worked behind the deli counter at the local supermarket after finishing high school before moving to Melbourne to chase her music dream \u2014 joked that she would \u201cprobably never have to work at IGA ever again.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_119329\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-119329\" style=\"width: 640px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-119329\" src=\"https:\/\/static.timesnewsgroup.com.au\/prod\/uploads\/sites\/29\/2025\/11\/Amy-Taylor-at-the-ARIAs.-Photo-INSTAGRAM-838x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"782\" srcset=\"https:\/\/static.timesnewsgroup.com.au\/prod\/uploads\/sites\/29\/2025\/11\/Amy-Taylor-at-the-ARIAs.-Photo-INSTAGRAM-838x1024.jpg 838w, https:\/\/static.timesnewsgroup.com.au\/prod\/uploads\/sites\/29\/2025\/11\/Amy-Taylor-at-the-ARIAs.-Photo-INSTAGRAM-245x300.jpg 245w, https:\/\/static.timesnewsgroup.com.au\/prod\/uploads\/sites\/29\/2025\/11\/Amy-Taylor-at-the-ARIAs.-Photo-INSTAGRAM-768x939.jpg 768w, https:\/\/static.timesnewsgroup.com.au\/prod\/uploads\/sites\/29\/2025\/11\/Amy-Taylor-at-the-ARIAs.-Photo-INSTAGRAM.jpg 1125w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-119329\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Amy Taylor at the ARIAs. Photo: INSTAGRAM<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>An outspoken activist as well as a frontwoman, she added that winning Album of the Year made her feel like \u201cthe new Prime Minister of Australia.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Taylor has often drawn on her Northern Rivers upbringing in her songwriting. The band\u2019s track <em>Snakes<\/em> recalls rolling down hills in a billycart, swimming in the \u201cBrunny,\u201d spotting snakes at the beach and by the dam, as well as those early shifts at the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.iga.com.au\/stores\/iga-local-grocer-mullumbimby\/\">IGA.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_119330\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-119330\" style=\"width: 640px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-119330\" src=\"https:\/\/static.timesnewsgroup.com.au\/prod\/uploads\/sites\/29\/2025\/11\/Amy-and-the-Rockers-with-their-ARIA-award-winning-album-Cartoon-Darkness.-Photo-INSTAGRAM-924x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"709\" srcset=\"https:\/\/static.timesnewsgroup.com.au\/prod\/uploads\/sites\/29\/2025\/11\/Amy-and-the-Rockers-with-their-ARIA-award-winning-album-Cartoon-Darkness.-Photo-INSTAGRAM-924x1024.jpg 924w, https:\/\/static.timesnewsgroup.com.au\/prod\/uploads\/sites\/29\/2025\/11\/Amy-and-the-Rockers-with-their-ARIA-award-winning-album-Cartoon-Darkness.-Photo-INSTAGRAM-271x300.jpg 271w, https:\/\/static.timesnewsgroup.com.au\/prod\/uploads\/sites\/29\/2025\/11\/Amy-and-the-Rockers-with-their-ARIA-award-winning-album-Cartoon-Darkness.-Photo-INSTAGRAM-768x851.jpg 768w, https:\/\/static.timesnewsgroup.com.au\/prod\/uploads\/sites\/29\/2025\/11\/Amy-and-the-Rockers-with-their-ARIA-award-winning-album-Cartoon-Darkness.-Photo-INSTAGRAM.jpg 1125w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-119330\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Amyl and the Sniffers with their ARIA award-winning album Cartoon Darkness. Photo: INSTAGRAM<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>After relocating to Melbourne, she studied music business at TAFE and met her future bandmates through gigs and share-house living. The group formed in 2016 and hit the road for their first tour in 2018. Their self-titled debut went on to win Best Rock Album at the 2019 ARIAs.<\/p>\n<p>They repeated the feat in 2022 with <em>Comfort to Me<\/em>, also picking up Best Rock Group \u2014 momentum they\u2019ve now more than matched with this year\u2019s haul.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MULLUMBIMBY-raised rocker Amy Taylor has taken home a swag of trophies at this year\u2019s ARIA Awards, with her pub-rock-meets-punk outfit Amyl and the Sniffers dominating the night. The band claimed Album of the Year, Best Rock Album and Best Cover Art for their latest release Cartoon Darkness, along with the coveted Best Group award at [&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"btn btn-secondary understrap-read-more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/timesnewsgroup.com.au\/byroncoasttimes\/news\/ex-mullumbimby-iga-worker-sweeps-the-aria-awards\/\">Read More&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":231,"featured_media":119328,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"post_folder":[],"class_list":["post-119326","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.7 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Ex-Mullumbimby IGA worker sweeps the ARIA Awards - Byron Coast Times<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Former Mullumbimby IGA worker Amy Taylor from Amyl and the Rockers has taken home four awards at the ARIAs.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/timesnewsgroup.com.au\/byroncoasttimes\/news\/ex-mullumbimby-iga-worker-sweeps-the-aria-awards\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Ex-Mullumbimby IGA worker sweeps the ARIA Awards - 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