Peaches - Gig Reviews - Music - Entertainment - smh.com.au
The title track's lyric "I'd rather f---who I want than kill who I am told to" is as politically charged asit gets. Like the Darkness, she passes off a comedy act as a greatrock show. At a 2004 show in Sydney, when shewas joined by dancers wearing fake beards and Strap-On Dildos, Isaw several men walk out, baffled. For example: is it hard to maintain that energyevery night on stage. You can't blame her forgrowing weary of discussing gender politics. I don't see it anydifferent from what, say, a rapper would do, just because I'mswitching [genders] around. The problem is that in talking to Peaches, it startsto seem like her only idea. But Peaches is provocative because the mainstreamdictates that women be the objects of desire, not the agents ofit. Strap-On Dildos