Peaches is coming back Down Under, and subtlety is still nowhere on the agenda. The Canadian-born, Berlin-based provocateur has announced a run of Australian and New Zealand shows for January 2027, bringing her No Lube So Rude tour to Auckland, Brisbane, Melbourne, Sydney and Perth. Presented by Untitled Group and Proxy, the dates mark her first visit since 2023.
More than two decades after she first rattled the establishment with The Teaches of Peaches, the musician, producer and performance artist remains one of electronic music’s most gloriously confrontational figures. Her shows have never been exercises in restraint, and Australian audiences can expect a collision of new material, outrageous costumes and old favourites including Fuck the Pain Away and Boys Wanna Be Her.
At the centre of the tour is No Lube So Rude, her first album in more than a decade and a record that proves Peaches has lost none of her appetite for confrontation. Shortlisted for the 2026 Polaris Music Prize, it throws electronic music, punk, industrial noise and pop into the blender, tackling sexuality, identity, ageing and bodily autonomy with characteristic defiance.
The album arrives at a time when the issues Peaches has spent her career confronting are once again dominating political and cultural debate. Her commitment to queer visibility, sexual liberation and feminist expression remains as pointed as ever, with No Lube So Rude taking aim at the forces attempting to silence those who refuse to conform.
Peaches has also been busy pulling the album apart and putting it back together, releasing remixes of every track. Recent highlights include Pixel Grip’s reworking of You’re Alright, featuring IDLES frontman Joe Talbot.
The tour has already travelled through the UK, Europe and North America, with Latin America next. Reviews have pointed to a performance that balances the outrageous with the unexpectedly intimate, including a recent Edmonton show where Peaches paid tribute to her late sister by wearing one of her jackets. Beneath the confrontational exterior, there is grief, vulnerability and considerably more emotional depth than the shock tactics might suggest.
Since exploding onto the scene in 2000, Peaches has built a career that refuses to sit comfortably within any single genre or artistic discipline. Collaborations with Iggy Pop and Yoko Ono, appearances on film and television soundtracks, and excursions into theatre, opera and contemporary art have cemented her position as an artist whose influence reaches well beyond the dancefloor.
And while plenty of artists have borrowed from her confrontational approach to sex, gender and identity, few have matched her willingness to keep pushing the argument forward. At a time when the policing of bodies and identities is once again political currency, Peaches isn’t interested in making herself more palatable.
Australia and New Zealand are about to get another reminder that Peaches has never needed anyone’s permission to make noise.
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