Peaches

‘I can sing Wuthering Heights so perfectly, it makes people’s jaws drop’: Peaches’ honest playlist

The pop provocateur loves most pop from the early 70s to the mid 80s. But which all-American banger can she no longer tolerate?

As told to Rich Pelley

02, May, 2022 @6:00 AM

Grace Jones' Meltdown: Solange, Skunk Anansie and Lee Fields to play

Curator of the London festival’s 27th edition announces trailblazers including Oumou Sangaré, Jimmy Cliff and Lee ‘Scratch’ Perry, as well as an ‘extraordinary’ show of her own

Laura Snapes

10, Feb, 2020 @11:00 AM

Peaches on her post-human sex toy art show: 'It's disturbing – but a lot of fun'

The pop provocateur has created an artwork in which an army of ‘fleshies’, or masturbation devices, seek sexual liberation. She talks us through its deeper meanings

Benoit Loiseau

12, Aug, 2019 @8:48 AM

Peaches: 'We smoked a joint, started screaming and suddenly had some songs'

In 2000, recovering from cancer and heartbreak, Merrill Nisker bought a synth, renamed herself Peaches and made a scorching album that became a feminist classic. In this extract from our Start podcast, she relives the sex, pain and pillow talk that fuelled The Teaches of Peaches

Peaches

08, Mar, 2018 @6:00 AM

Peaches Christ Superstar review – a searing, defiantly queer take on the crucifixion

Peaches’ reinterpretation of Jesus Christ Superstar retains the rock-opera roots of the original while infusing it with new meaning and her trademark humour

Cassie Tongue

20, Jan, 2017 @1:44 AM

‘As long as there are hairbrushes, people will sing’ – the best of 2016’s webchats

Jon Bon Jovi’s key change killer, Gemma Arterton’s weep-off with Glenn Close, the weirdest thing that ever happened to Harry Shearer … here are the highlights of 2016’s culture webchats

Ben Beaumont-Thomas

29, Dec, 2016 @7:00 AM

Peaches review – a masterclass in gleeful subversion

The glorious Canadian pan-sexual provocateur takes aim at some topical targets, eventually, in a bravura performance

Kitty Empire

13, Nov, 2016 @9:00 AM

Peaches review – joyous, gender-mashing cabaret

The Canadian art-pop provocateur showed striking vocal control amid an endless parade of gigantic genitalia in a boundary-pushing show

Graeme Virtue

06, Nov, 2016 @2:46 PM

Peaches webchat – your questions answered on Trump, feminism and being yourself

The electro star discussed everything from fruit to sexual politics – and Brexit

03, Nov, 2016 @2:09 PM

Mofo 2017: Peaches to bring her one-woman Jesus Christ Superstar to Hobart festival

More than 200 artists from a dozen countries will feature in the Hobart summer festival, including Z-Trip, Mike Patton and Maynard Keenan

Elle Hunt

12, Oct, 2016 @12:00 AM

Readers recommend playlist: songs about bodily fluids

You had fun picking the tunes and our reader pored over them to select the best for this list – from Peaches to Andrew W.K.

Pairubu

09, Jun, 2016 @10:00 AM

Peaches' playlist: Nicki Minaj, PJ Harvey and more

The electroclash star picks out six of her favourite tracks – from a Minaj masterpiece to Cyndi Lauper outdoing Prince on one of his own songs