We needed an anthem at the end of 2020 — what was by all accounts a godawful year — something to help us stage dive with full hearts and flailing limbs into 2021. So we asked beloved Melbourne punk rockers Amyl and the Sniffers to join us in raising a middle finger to 2020, as part of our commissioned track series RISING: SINGLES CLUB. Their contribution is one for the ages — a cover of Patrick Hernandez’s disco belter, ‘Born to Be Alive’.

Hernandez’s track went all the way to #1 on the Australian charts in ’79. Allegedly it started out as a hard rock shredder, before morphing into a disco banger, which means Amyl and the Sniffers’ take has come full circle. Kind of like those full moons we’ve been harping on about. This new version’s got lead singer Amy Taylor’s joyous and irrepressible cheek, thundering drums and heavy riffs. It’s a brick through 2020’s window.

We’re born to be alive. Make it count.

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