PeachesProclaiming, “Melbourne, I’ve been waiting for you!” and then asking, “Have you been waiting for me!?” Peaches knows how to make an entrance.
In Australia for Groovin The Moo appearances, Peaches is also promoting her new album Rub (to be released later this year). Dressed in a Lycra suit with elaborate head-and-shoulder piece, Peaches launches into Show Stopper. She’s then joined by “slutty boy dancer” Agent Cleave and “slutty girl dancer” Jess Daly, who enter and exit the stage throughout the set dressed in different costumes. Their best costume by far is the pink unicorn body suit with a giant, anatomically correct vagina chest piece. Peaches shoots champagne into the crowd at various points of the show, covering the first few rows and pouring it down the throats of anyone willing. She struts along the front of the stage and jumps up onto the console to cue up her own tracks. Onstage costume changes occur, she surfs the crowd to the back of the venue’s pit and, at one point, climbs into a 20-metre-long inflatable penis and walks along the heads of the crowd.
The set takes a sudden downward spiral, however, when a decision is made to sell merchandise from the top of the stage. Playing the first four seconds of Fuck The Pain Away Peaches cuts the music and announces that she’s selling tour shirts and tank tops from the stage for $30. Despite being rather cool with “Whose Jizz Is This Anyway” emblazoned on the front, the ensuing eight minutes of commerce feels a tad exploitative and the crowd noticeably thins out. Nevertheless, the t-shirts come with the optional extra of asking Peaches to rub the shirt all over her body before the transaction. As such, some punters who do score the shirt infused with Peaches’ sweat probably think that they’ve scored a bargain. When it does come time to close out the set, Peaches’ delivery of the rest of Fuck The Pain Away is tired and rushed.
Returning after a costume change for the encore, Cleave and Daly sit on top of the console wearing sunglasses and blow dry their hair. The blow dryers short out the decks, however, and a further five minutes of dead time ensues as the issue is resolved. The final songs Back It Up, Boys and Shake Yer Dix bring the energy up again, but by this stage it’s too little too late.
