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Through music, art, film, theater, television, and books, she has upended stereotypes and embraced taboos, challenging social norms and patriarchal power structures while championing LGBTQ+ rights and issues of gender and sexual identity with biting wit and fearless originality.
She first catapulted to international stardom with her “surreally funny [and] nasty” (Rolling Stone) 2000 debut, The Teaches of Peaches, an album which upended stereotypes and embraced taboos as it introduced the world to Peaches’ raunchily explosive persona. Since then, she’s released four more critically acclaimed albums prompting the New York Times to dub her a “genuine heroine” and Uncut to rave that she brings together "high art, low humor, and deluxe filth [in] a hugely seductive combination.” In addition to collaborating with everyone from Daft Punk and The Flaming Lips, to P!nk, and Yoko Ono her music has been honored with the prestigious Polaris Heritage Prize, and been featured in cultural watermarks like Lost In Translation, The Handmaid’s Tale, and Broad City, and studied at universities around the world.
An equally prolific visual and performance artist, Peaches has directed over twenty of her own videos, curated a stunning book of Holger Talinski photographs documenting her life on and off the road, and participated in some of modern art’s most prominent gatherings, including Art Basel Miami and the Venice Biennale. In 2010, she unveiled Peaches Does Herself, an electro-rock opera spanning material from throughout her career that was arranged into a loosely autobiographical narrative. It morphed into a film of the same title, which premiered at the TIFF in 2012 before traveling to more than 70 festivals around the world. Peaches continued her foray into theater with a one-woman production of Jesus Christ Superstar, redubbed Peaches Christ Superstar, which continues to be performed at theaters and festivals globally and was featured in 2016 as part of the Kammerspiele Munich repertoire. Ever eclectic, she sang the title role in a Berlin production of Monteverdi's epic 17th-century opera L’Orfeo and joined forces with Yoko Ono on a recreation of her iconic 1964 performance Cut Piece at the 2013 Meltdown Festival in London. Ono later said that Cut Piece will never be performed again with such eloquence,” adding “I have a clear vision of future women artists led by the creative courage of Peaches.”
In 2019, Peaches starred as Anna in the Staatstheater Stuttgart’s new adaptation of Brecht/Weill’s The Seven Deadly Sins and launched her first institutional solo art exhibition that premiered at the Kunstverein in Hamburg entitled Whose Jizz Is This? At the Kampnagel Summer Festival, Peaches' futuristic stage happening There’s Only One Peach With The Hole In The Middle celebrated its world premiere. This production featured 16 dancers, a 12 piece orchestra, special guests, and a fully redesigned stage and light extravaganza. There's Only One Peach… played at Royal Festival Hall (London, UK), Musikhuset Aarhus (Aarhus, DK), and Volksbühne (Berlin, DE).
Peaches only continues to break new ground. In 2020 her seminal album The Teaches of Peaches turned 20, which NPR says fundamentally "shifted the window for sex in pop." In a viral moment, Dave Grohl & Greg Kurstin’s 2020 Hanukkah Sessions sparked delight with a Grohl/Peaches duet of “Fuck The Pain Away.” She released the kinetic “Flip This,” which Rolling Stone said “challenges status quo and calls for systemic change.”
2021 saw her influence only further manifest. Peaches released the delightfully subversive “Pussy Mask.” “The perfect release” (Paper) was hailed by critics, including Stereogum who said it “combines her inimitable political critique, ribald wordplay, and enveloping electro." She was also cited as the main inspiration for designer Anthony Vaccarello’s AW21 Saint Laurent collection and “Fuck The Pain Away” was used as a climactic moment in Netflix’s Sex Education Season 3. She celebrated the 48th anniversary of Roe v. Wade with friends Cyndi Lauper, Nona Hendyrx, Linda Perry, and others on Amanda Shires' "Our Problem.”
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Live-Bewertungen
I suppose if anyone was to spend nearly 20 years performing songs called things like Fuck The Pain Away and Lovertits off albums called Fatherfucker and Impeach My Bush then they’d eventually gain the confidence to perform them pretty sensationally. However it’s been the responsibility of Peaches (A.K.A Merrill Nisker) so far and let’s face it, she does a better job of it than any of us mere mortals ever could. Drawing inspiration from sources like John Waters, Tron, Grease and Cindy Sherman, her live shows are a riot of colour, kitsch, costumes and, above the trappings at all times, a massive heaping dose of talent. Seriously, it gets left behind among all the outlandish sights and sounds but Peaches is a seriously good vocalist, and with a good enough eye for likeminded artistry that every one of her backing bands from The Herms to Sweet Machine accompanies her like they were born to do it. However, even on her own, Peaches can pull off a sensational live show. Y’see, not all of Peaches gigs are standard live shows where she plays her songs and the audience goes home. Because of course they’re not. If she feels like performing a one woman show version of Jesus Christ Superstar, that’s what she’ll do. She wants to join Yoko Ono for a run through of 1980’s Double Fantasy Album? She’ll do that. She wants to work with everyone from R.E.M to Christina Aguilera? Done. This ambition extends to everything about her music, especially her live shows, which could captivate anyone but for everyone with a hankering for some truly alternative culture? They’re unmissable.
william-howard-2
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!
louise_h
Peaches is probably most famously (or infamously, to be more accurate) known for her dark and twisted industrial electro-pop hit, “Fuck the Pain Away.” This cult-hit of a single pops up just about everywhere. I first heard it when I watched “Jackass Number 2” and then again in the more respectable soundtrack to Sofia Coppola’s film starring Scarlet Johansson and Bill Murray, “Lost in Translation.” And that’s just to mention a few. The brutally frank and incredibly explicit lyrics as well as the jarring combination of electronic beats and bass make for a somewhat uncomfortable listen, but uncomfortable in the best way possible.
The same can be said for Peaches’ live performances – they should definitely come with an explicit content and general freakishness rating. She is not for the faint hearted… But if you do brave one of her show, you will not be disappointed; she delivers on theatrics, originality and, of course, quality sound: the live rendition of her most popular song is always impeccably executed and a huge crowd pleaser. That’s not to say that Peaches is a one trick pony, though, the Canadian performer keeps her shows varied with career spanning tracks played with each night along with approximately ten thousand costume changes and lots of audience interaction. I would definitely recommend seeing Peaches live, if not because of a love for her music, then purely for the weird, wacky and wonderful experience of her live shows!
hbrownn02
I really think that the acoustics of the venue COULD NOT cope with her pitch, which is actually great.
I was sitting in the balcony, the views from there are very good, if you like to have a view of whole show, it is a good spot.
The show is very good, simple and really good. Varied and she tries a lot to get the audience involved, which is not easy with the British people, what I mean is that they think twice or three times to go with the flow. But still eventually everything worked.
I would love to see her again.
tadein
Unbelievable! What a performance from a sheer performance artist. Good crowd and cool cool venue. No crowd surfing for Peaches, she actually walked across the crowd on their hands held aloft in the air - I kid you not. Oh, and there was also a gigantic penis type film that she got in and made her way into the audience, which then proceeded to squirt! Crazy. Well worth seeing if you get the chance.
G-star18_13
Totally awesome show!! She killed it. High energy, great sound, costumes, props, etc. She played songs from the new album and many older favorites that got the crowd really pumping. Also had two great backup dancers that acted things out on stage and added to the overall performance and energy. A great performance for sure!! If you're a fan, do not miss.
jeffwyner
This was a fantastic show! She kept the crowd entertained while singing, mixing, dancing, and interacting with the crowd. I loved her before, but now I'm a fan for life! She even came out at the end and autographed one of her shirts for my sister.
joey-mccoy
Peaches is the kind of woman I would want to start wars over but then wouldn't, because she would tell me that wasn't cool.
She puts on one of the best stage shows and doesn't jack ticket prices. You should go every time she comes back to Toronto.
sue-conway
Great role model for young girls.great sounds great lyrics great to dance to fun fun fun fun fun fun fun fun fun fun fun fun fun fun fun fun fun fun fun fun fun love songs rock songs better than Madonna better than Tiffany better than Samantha Fox
Fuckgirls
Awesome amazing awesome amazing awesome amazing awesome amazing. Venue was awesome Peaches was awesome and everything is awesome!!! Awesome amazing awesome amazing !! Awesome amazing !!! Awesome amazing!!! - awesome amazing
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