As she prepares to release No Lube So Rude, her first album in a decade, the Canadian dance-punk icon will answer your questions
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hether crowdsurfing inside a giant condom or singing alongside a vulva-headed dancer, Peaches has left us with some indelible on-stage images over the years – and there are set to be a few new ones as she goes on tour and releases her first album in a decade. As she does so, she’ll join us to answer your questions.
Peaches, AKA Merrill Nisker, emerged from Toronto’s underground scene in the late 1990s – her peers included Feist, her flatmate above a sex shop – but really came to fame in the early 00s after she moved to Berlin. Her debut EP, Lovertits, was a cherished item on the era’s electroclash scene but it was the a joyous, profane dance-punk track Fuck the Pain Away, from her debut album The Teaches of Peaches, that really took her into the mainstream.
It began a run of brilliantly named albums – Fatherfucker, Impeach My Bush, I Feel Cream and Rub – graced by the likes of Iggy Pop, Soulwax and Kim Gordon, but there’s been a long gap since the last of those in 2015. Thankfully, the follow-up No Lube So Rude is set for release in 2026, and the first single Not In Your Mouth None of Your Business is a complete triumph: a pounding manifesto for liberation and resistance aimed at anyone trying to strip away queer rights. Peaches is also going on a 27-date North American tour from February, donating a dollar from every ticket to organisations upholding trans rights.
