Its November and most peoples thoughts have started wandering towards the long dark Winter nights that lie ahead and what can help bring some joy and light to the soul during these months? Well, I can certainly recommend catching Amyl & The Sniffers live, if nothing else then just to experience the infectious joy that lead singer Amy Taylor brings, with that ever present smile that’s firmly in place for the whole of their set. After a short hop on the train up from Teesside to the Toon, a settling in to out digs for the night, pie and chips in a pub that we have frequented many times before a gig in the city and a few beers with friends old and new in Rafferty’s, a bar that draws in all the like minded inclusive people. Weirdly it seems that all Geordies all Smoggies (that’...