As dance music embraced crunching guitars and camp theatrics and bore the
electro-clash sub genre in the early 2000s, former school teacher and member of
the folksy trio Mermaid Café, Merrill Nisker, turned herself into Peaches, a
sleazy neon queen of filthy disco pop. Taking her name from the Nina Simone song
Four Women, her synth experiments led to her moving to Berlin and signing with
German label Kitty-Yo, who released debut album The Teaches Of Peaches (2000).
In a blitz of strutting beats, outrageous smut and a post-feminist defiance,
Peaches' live shows exploded with blood...