Peaches's shtick a bit too choreographed
Besides her infamous hyper-sexed lyrics and unique gender politics, what else is in the teaches of Peaches?
Friday night at Avalon, the woman who implored listeners to ``[Expletive] the Pain Away," had another lesson for fans: how to turn a s htick into a spectacle.
Peaches began the night perched in the balcony, wearing a sequined hood. She doffed one skimpy outfit after another throughout the night until she was down to a black bra and panties, rocketing through tracks off her latest disc, ``Impeach My Bush."
Peaches's overt sexuality and propensity for turning gender norms upside down were on full display . If her songs ``Two Guys ( for Every Girl)" and ``Rock the Shocker" (a detailed guide to rounding the proverbial third base) didn't get the crowd thinking, they at least got them moving.
For humor, she turned to props. A giant, inflatable representation of the male member was erected behind the drums during ``AA XXX," but fell over shortly thereafter. This was just another part of the show, as stagehands faked CPR and eventually carried it offstage on a stretcher.
Adding to the musicality of tunes, including ``Rock Show" and ``Operate," was an all-girl super-group consisting of JD Samson of Le Tigre, former Courtney Love guitarist Radio Sloan, and former Hole and Motley Crue drummer Samantha Maloney. The band kicked up the energy on songs such as ``Boys Wanna Be Her," but also had fun with the sexually ambiguous ``I U She," adding to the sense of liberation.
Despite the edgy content, the performance seemed too choreographed. Stripping down wasn't done in the heat of the moment; it was a scheduled costume change.
Even as the boys of opener Eagles of Death Metal carried Peaches offstage after ``Hanky Code," it felt more Vaudevillian than fresh and spontaneous.
Eagles of Death Metal started the night off with an incredibly tight set of testosterone-fueled rock. Charismatic f rontman Jesse Hughes answered a fan's ``I love you!" with, appropriately for the evening, ``I love you harder, baby."
