Peaches Plays London’s Kentish Town Forum on No Lube So Rude Tour

Peaches stepped onto the Kentish Town Forum stage last week with the same unflinching directness that has defined her work for two decades. The London show was part of the No Lube So Rude tour, her first full run of dates in years, and it made clear that time hasn’t softened the edges.

From the opening, the set pulled from a catalog that helped reshape the intersection of electronic music and performance art. Tracks like “Fuck the Pain Away” and “Boys Wanna Be Her” still land as provocations, not nostalgia, and they hit differently in a room that knows every word. Peaches moved between older material and newer cuts without losing the thread. The stage setup was simple, the focus squarely on her voice and physicality. Dancers joined for select moments, but the night never felt like a revue. It felt like a sustained argument about autonomy, desire, and noise.

Photographer Burak Cingi was in the pit for the show, and his images from the night document the sweat and tension without gloss. The photos, originally commissioned by The Line of Best Fit, capture the kind of raw crowd interaction that defines Peaches’ live reputation. There’s no distance in those frames. Just a performer and an audience locked into the same uncomfortable, exhilarating frequency.

The No Lube So Rude tour continues through Europe. For an artist whose influence is often cited but rarely matched, these shows reaffirm something that got muddied by years of festival nostalgia bookings. Peaches remains a live force that doesn’t ask permission.