Merrill Beth Nisker, stage name Peaches, is a female electro-dance-punk artist, hailing from Canada- but such a description really doesn’t do the singer much justice at all.
If you’ve never had the, ahem, pleasure of experiencing what a Peaches live set entails, then you’re in for a whole bundle of tricks, treats, shocks, and probably much more. This is one femme who you can’t underestimate- the term ‘provocateur’ could practically have been invented for her, over a decade before the 2014 pop era of meat dresses and wrecking balls. This current vogue seems blandly tame in comparison to the giant multi-breasted, light-up crotch-blaring, silver cape festooned singer’s latest stage get-up which was just one of many outfit changes of the night when I saw her performing at the Festaal Kreuzberg, Berlin, a couple of years ago.
The crowd was (almost) equally crazily dressed up, and definitely ready to get down and dirty to Peaches’ shouty, punky, fiercely outspoken vocals over synthesized beats and thunderous electro grooves of songs like ‘Lovertits’, ‘Kick It’- the song she recorded with none other than Iggy Pop- and the unmistakably catchy hit, ‘F*** The Pain Away’. Undoubtedly, one of the most raunchy, unexpectedly bizarre-in-an-awesome-way shows I’ve ever been to- Peaches really knows how to shock and awe her audience and she hasn’t lost a bit of her norm-questioning, theatrically explicit smut. Her live show is something to be experienced to be believed!
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