I've interviewed both Peaches and Chilly Gonzales and I can tell you they're both compelling musicians and thinkers, backing their music with more thought-out politics and theory than your usual dildo-wielding sex jams.
The two Canadian expat songwriters reunited for Red Bull Music Academy to talk about their long and fruitful decades-spanning collaboration and, naturally, it's both hilarious and fascinating.
Peaches and Gonzo Rashomon their way through their meet-weird, giving their complimentary (and occasionally conflicting) stories of how the two nerdy Jewish kids came from different directions to get high, jam, and invent their crude, pubes-out alter egos: Peaches and (then) Thermometer, a.k.a. The Shit.
In the "Fireside Chat," streaming above, you'll also get a ton of their music and the stories behind it. We're sharing it in prep for Le Gonzervatoire, the culmination of Chilly Gonzales' RBMA "Gonzervatory," a real-life week-long version of his brilliant pop-deconstructing Masterclass series. He's been working with a handful of Red Bull Music Academy students in Montreal, and now they collaborate on a full recital.
Chilly Gonzales' Le Gonzervatoire: En Concert avec Chilly Gonzales takes place tomorrow, October 26, at Le Gesù in Montreal as part of Red Bull Music Academy.
Listen to Peaches and Chilly Gonzales tell the hilarious story of how they met by Richard Trapunski | Chart Attack.
