{"id":3420,"date":"2009-11-13T22:31:36","date_gmt":"2009-11-14T02:31:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cgm13.net\/wordpress\/?p=3420"},"modified":"2009-11-13T22:32:57","modified_gmt":"2009-11-14T02:32:57","slug":"peaches-rocks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theboywonder.net\/?p=3420","title":{"rendered":"Peaches Rocks!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" title=\"Peaches at The Orange Peel\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.theboywonder.net\/images\/09245.jpg?resize=405%2C305\" alt=\"\" width=\"405\" height=\"305\" \/><br \/>\nZounds!<\/p>\n<p>I saw <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/peachesrocks.com\/index.php\" target=\"_blank\">Peaches<\/a><\/strong> at The Orange Peel and it&#8217;s taken a wee bit to recover. I knew that the show was gonna be wild going in &#8230; but I came away less shocked by tactics and more impressed by her pure showmanship. She was amazing &#8230; from crowd surfing to champagne shaking to blood spitting to multi-costume changing. Her backing band, <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.myspace.com\/sweetmachineband\" target=\"_blank\">Sweet Machine<\/a><\/strong>, rocked hard and matched up well with Peaches in terms of showmanship. I was so into it I actually took my shirt off when Peaches commanded us to.<\/p>\n<p>Hopefully she&#8217;ll play Asheville again.<\/p>\n<p>Also of note was <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.myspace.com\/men\" target=\"_blank\">M.E.N.<\/a><\/strong>, the opening act. Fronted by <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/JD_Samson\" target=\"_blank\">JD Samson<\/a><\/strong> (of <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Le_Tigre\" target=\"_blank\">Le Tigre<\/a><\/strong> fame), M.E.N. performed on a great set of electronic based dance music. I wish they had played longer.<\/p>\n<p>And what&#8217;s a live show without some eyecandy? I fell madly in lust with <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Sweet_Machine\" target=\"_blank\">Sweet Machine<\/a><\/strong>&#8216;s drummer, <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.peachesofficialblog.com\/sweet-machine\/spotlightmathias\/\" target=\"_blank\">Mathias Brendel<\/a><\/strong> &#8230; handlebar moustache, fuzzy chest &#8230; and he&#8217;s German! HUBBA!<\/p>\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" title=\"Mathias Brendel\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.theboywonder.net\/images\/09246.jpg?resize=405%2C305\" alt=\"\" width=\"405\" height=\"305\" \/><br \/>\n<strong><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" title=\"Mathias Brendel\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.theboywonder.net\/images\/09247.jpg?resize=405%2C405\" alt=\"\" width=\"405\" height=\"405\" \/><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Zounds! I saw Peaches at The Orange Peel and it&#8217;s taken a wee bit to recover. I knew that the show was gonna be wild going in &#8230; but I came away less shocked by tactics and more impressed by her pure showmanship. She was amazing &#8230; from crowd surfing to champagne shaking to blood [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[2,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3420","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily","category-music"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8EnCu-Ta","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theboywonder.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3420","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theboywonder.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theboywonder.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theboywonder.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theboywonder.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3420"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.theboywonder.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3420\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3422,"href":"https:\/\/www.theboywonder.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3420\/revisions\/3422"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theboywonder.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3420"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theboywonder.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3420"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theboywonder.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3420"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}