Peaches may have faced a sold out show at the Paradise Rock Club but still managed to call the crowd to order with a militaristic opening, complete with search lights and her backup band, known as The Herms, in glittery camouflage S&M uniforms. The searchlights stopped after they found the 40-plus Peaches marching across the stage wearing a sexy camouflage mask and a fluffy pink outfit that would put the plump Violet Beauregarde to shame. Once on top of a giant speaker the mask flew off to reveal a renewed Peaches (she manages to reinvent herself more often than Madonna) and heavy bass vibrations that inspire the gay and lesbian love fest prevalent at her shows. Their bomb outfits and the smell of vagina graciously covered the shitty acoustics of the Paradise. This shock factor is only furthered by the fact that Peaches was formerly an elementary school music teacher and plays nearly all of the instruments on her self- produced albums.

Peaches began climbing through the crowd, onto the risers and railings while singing "Shake Yer Dix" a song of the 2003 album Fatherfucker that got the entire crowd moving: "Shake yer dix, shake yer dix, shake yer dix!...Are the motherfuckers ready for the fatherfckers?! Are the fatherfuckers ready for the motherfuckers?!" Even this writer/photographer began swinging his lens around. This is not uncommon for Peaches as the blurring of gender distinction is prevalent in her music; a way of bending gender issues. In fact Peaches has performed wearing a beard as depicted on Fatherfucker. The next song "Kick It" (featuring Iggy Pop) began with a Stooges-esque breakdown on guitar before Peaches once more took to the stage, only this time she was dressed in a bathrobe and Erykah Badu-style towel, claiming that all the sexy heat led her to take a cold shower. It was only fitting that Peaches should strip down once more to a jumpsuit wherein she performed something of a laser light show, stroking her light saber to the lyrics "Seems you got a little more than you asked for." With every stroke of the blade Peaches's guitarist bent a note or two.

The room truly began spinning once Peaches kicked off the last leg of her show with "Boys Wanna Be her" (Impeach My Bush, 2006) and Peaches stripped down even further, ending up in a bikini. She was always sure to reach out to the audience, reminding the nosebleeds, "Just 'cause you're in the pits doesn't mean you got the shits" and congratulating the recent college graduates. Next Peaches introduced the audience to her "best friends" – two hairy beings resembling Cousin It from The Adams Family who began dancing onstage alongside her while she spun what resembled anal beads around her neck in a hula fashion. The audience was promptly inspired to remove their shirts and spin them above their heads in a similar fashion while chanting with Peaches "Come on, let's set it off!"

The show began to draw to a close when Peaches's guitarist adorned a blonde wig for the song featuring Iggy Pop, "Rockshow." It might not have been the same as hearing Iggy's 2003 release Skull Ring/Rockshow but the guitarist managed to sing his part rather well. And of course the show could not truly draw to a close without more off of the 2000 album The Teaches of Peaches and an encore for the seminal Peaches song, featured in Lost in Translation, "Fuck the Pain Away." Suddenly crotches were swinging again while the keytar began glowing to "Suckin' on my titties like you wanted me, calling me all the time…What else is in the teaches of Peaches." Adorning a cape, Peaches joined us one final time for another encore for "Lovertits" during which she took a swig of a beer and began convulsing and holding her stomach before spewing fake blood in Gene Simmons fashion onto the entire audience.

--Photo and Review by Mark Gottlieb.