Peaches Does Herself
From the woman who brought us the songs ‘Lovertits,’ ‘Slippery Dick,’ and ‘Fuck or Kill,’ comes a rock opera, with lewdness so lewd it must be political.
Plot summary
On the advice of an old stripper, Peaches makes sexually forthright music. This electro rock opera follows Peaches' rise in popularity and her love affair with a beautiful she-male that ultimately leads her to realize who she really is.
A sensitive, soft focus exploration of Edwardian class politics and the perils of the orphaned daughter of a disgraced clergyman in a small Yorkshire parish, who himself was stricken by the early death of his chaste wife from consumption. The young blushing maiden finds herself in the employ of a well-meaning farmer’s household, he and his wife unable to have children of their own, where she learns the selfless joys of educating the waifs of the local community in lessons of grammar, piety, and finding the spark to understanding in God’s true and gentle universe. Oh. Sorry. Wrong movie. Peaches Does Herself; the title pretty much says it all, in all its literalness and its double entendres. From the woman who brought us the songs ‘Lovertits,’ ‘Slippery Dick,’ and ‘Fuck or Kill,’ and whose album spawned a video featured stop-motion Amazonian rainforest crotch-bush growth, comes a rock opera, with lewdness so lewd it must be political.
An aspiring stage director, Peaches has always been about more than Electro-pop. That was the one guise that gave her fame, but is just one tool in her arsenal. Like Patti Smith, or Leonard Cohen—they found an audience with popular music, but it wasn’t the totality of them. Following the success of Peaches Christ Superstar (where she performed the entirety of Jesus Christ Superstar by herself, singing all the parts), Peaches Does Herself is a Bildungroman of the creation and ascent of Peaches, from teenage dreams of being a star to actually becoming a rock star, to eventually to making a rock opera. It all the myth and misconception and provocation that is Peaches, set to songs from her back catalogue (‘The Jukebox Musical that got a Sex Change’). With a hybrid Mohawk and mullet, and a strap-on, Peaches sneers, she leers, she shows titties and takes us on a journey of self-discovery that features dry-humping, vagina puppets, self-mutilation, bloody vomit, nightmare glam punk and the sagacity of a septuagenarian stripper (Sandy Kane). She is backed up by the Fatherfucker Dancers. Fuck gender, fuck art, fuck autobiography, fuck reality. Fuck the pain away.
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