On March 4th, Peaches stormed the stage of Danforth Music Hall in her home town Toronto, Canada. The show was raw, unapologetic, political and the epitome of queer culture at its most artistic form of expression. Illuminating the beauty, the magic, and the wonder that life has to offer in 2026 with avant garde costumes, risque dancers, portable stages and influential messages of empowerment.
The No Lube So Rude Tour is raw, crude, wildly weird and fantastically other worldly. Featuring the theme “prolapse” as a tribute to growing older and being comfortable within your body as it changes. Peaches, who is now fifty-nine years of age, started the evening in a hanging titties costume with her song “Hanging Tites,” which quickly transformed into a hairy creature costume for another song. Her team cohesively alters, morphs and transmutes the stage with each song making the entire evening one long performance art event. Using distraction like a magician, Peaches utilizes dancers, costumes and performance to distract the viewer and suddenly you find yourself transported into a new environment.
Consequently, creating a surreal visual experience that hits all the senses. The visuals were often autonomy themed, and sexually explicit but the messages were very real. Touching on topics like feminism, sexual empowerment, transgender rights, freeing Palestine, and the importance of being comfortable with your own self image. Peaches mixed her hottest hits with political songs and her newest music while constantly morphing with costume changes. Starting with the hanging titties outfit, the hairy creature suit, to body suits with written messages, a suit with hairy pasties on underneath and multiple skin suits with hairy sections.
Peaches a.k.a. Merrill Nisker is a Canadian electroclash musician, producer, director, performance artist, trailblazer, feminist and queer icon. Her music career first exploded into mainstream media in 2000 with her debut album The Teaches of Peaches. Her fierce and unapologetically sexually driven music paved the way for many other female artists and inspired many to be their weird selves. Although she has aged gracefully with time her messages are just as important today as they were twenty-six years ago. Stating, “When the world is friction, lube isn’t a luxury. It’s a necessity. It’s how you turn that friction into pleasure, into power, into pride. I want people to understand that they can still have a voice no matter who they are or what the world says about them. Now more than ever, there are so many forces that just want you to give up and be quiet. If this album can help you resist that, then that’s what it’s for,” Peaches.
In a time period of illusion, distraction, smoke and mirrors within the media, I find Peaches to be authentic, bold, a leader of the fringe and a cultural visionary. Her music is not only anthematic, her art provokes movement and her ability to not conform as she ages is a breath of fresh air. All hail Peaches.
Setlist: Hanging Titties, Whatcha Gonna Do About It, Rub, I U She, F*ck Your Face, Vaginoplasty, Slippery D*ck, Panna Cotta Delight, Flip This, Light in Places, AA XXX, Operate, I Feel Cream, F*ck How You Wanna F*ck, Not in Your Mouth None of Your Business, Grip, You’re Alright, Boys Wanna Be Her, Take It, Be Love
Encore: Dick in the Air, F*ck the Pain Away, No Lube So Rude, People
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