Just when you thought it was safe to head out to The Gov, along comes Peaches with a hyper sexual act that would make Annie Sprinkle blush! Bad Cop opened the night to a dead room. Daylight Savings and the early start meant daylight was flooding into the room creating a bit of a buzzkill, with everyone away from the main area and in the beer garden. Although the sound was good the intense electronica and trap just didn’t suit the vibe. A live act on a later timeslot would have been ideal. Having said that his set did help the vibe when it got darker.
Berlin based American rapper Black Cracker provides one of the most innovative, postmodern shows in hip hop at the moment performing very close to two large projection screens with the strangest of lo-fi self produced footage. Handling his own production and using a headset mic he cut a pretty quirky scene in a dress with unsymmetrical small buns in his hair. His slow grooves were cool and his disarmingly honest and raw vocal themes the Berlin-based American post-modern rapper was hypnotic. The full on crowd engagement was amplified by him being so close to the front due to the screens.
With a huge amount of buzz and great anticipation, Peaches dancers made a huge entrance in white wool suits with their faces obscured. Their subsequent arrival on stage featured giant vagina costumes. In fact, the sheer sexuality of virtually every costume change from genitals to bondage gear and nipple cut tops, pretty well left virtually every base uncovered. The choreography with Peaches and the amazing hyper-sexualised dancers also helped make this one of the live performances of the year. With everything from spitting liquid through the crowd to burlesque style interplays, their performance was one of the biggest parts of the show.
Peaches has to be one of the most confident performers going around. Performing most of the night with her nipples out, half naked she essentially just stood and delivered on a podium of sorts, entirely without shame. The unbridled devotion of her fans is testament to the power of her very open appeal. Her huge vocal range cannot be underestimated either, in addition to her musical diversity. From belting out huge hooks to spitting out precise rapping she’s basically a visual and musical tour de force in command of one of the biggest live shows going around. The great production and beats were flawless as well, testament to her producing and her live team and the use of a vocoder brought another welcome layer of diversity, as well as some dark heavy prose. Predictably “Boys wanna be here” and “Talk to Me” were two of the highlights, but in truth, this show was all killer from start to finish.
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