There's Only One Peach With The Hole In The Middle
Over the past 20 years, the musician and artist Peaches has created a comprehensive artistic oeuvre that focuses on music, performance and cross-media practices. She has made thousands of people dance in clubs with her music, and transgressively appropriated traditionally male-dominated genres such as rock, punk, heavy metal and rap. Her lyrics about social inequality, body images, gender and age equality read like postmodern poetry, and her concerts are highly explosive Gesamtkunstwerks, comprised of music, sound, fashion, visual- and live arts. Peaches is a master of the uncompromising popularization of the avant-garde and has, like this, implemented sex-positive feminism into the concert halls of this world.
To celebrate the 20th anniversary of her stage debut, the Summer Festival is now showing the whole spectrum of her artistic universe: Peaches will open her first solo exhibition at the Kunstverein on August 9th; at KMH she will present three club nights; and with There's Only One Peach With The Hole In The Middle, she creates a futuristic stage happening as a world premiere for the Summer Festival featuring 13 musicians, 10 performers and guests such as New York drag rapper Christeene and London-based aerial performer Empress Stah. Inspired by the variety shows of 1970s LGBTIQ* icons such as Bette Midler and Liza Minelli and with costumes by avant hair and fashion designer Charlie Le Mindu, Peaches catapults her vision of the past, present and future of queer feminism onto the grand stage of the Kampnagel factory.
Approximate running time: 80 minutes
Concept, Direction, Music, Vocals, Performance: Peaches
Costumes: Charlie Le Mindu
Stage & Light: House of North (Fubbi Karlson & Nella Riecken)
Musical Direction: Tif Lamson
Performance: Empress Stah, Hyenaz & many more
Dance: Nola Kinfolk
Assistance & stage management: Dana Tucker
Live Music: N.N.
A PRODUCTION OF International Summer Festival Kampnagel.
COPRODUCTION Aarhus Musikhuset,
Southbank Centre, Volksbühne Berlin
FUNDED BY Kulturstiftung des Bundes in the frame of "20 Years of Peaches" in collaboration with Kunstverein in Hamburg and the Embassy of Canada to Germany.
Photo credit: Magda Wosinska - The Wild Magazine
EXTRA DATES
Aug 28, 2019 in LONDON, UK
Royal Festival Hall, Southbank Centre
doors 7pm
Performance 8pm
Aug 31 2019 in AARHUS - DK
Venue: Musikhuset Aarhus - Store Sal
doors 7pm
Performance 8pm
April 26, 2019
