For Peaches, whose career has been defined by theatrical spectacle, humor and a willingness to challenge tradition, the occasion is something of a homecoming.<\/p>\n
She\u2019s performed at the Fonda numerous times, including two nights during an anniversary tour celebrating her 2000 debut album, \u201cThe Teaches of Peaches.\u201d Yet some of her most cherished memories come from those earliest visits, when she was beginning to discover the creative communities that would help shape her relationship with Los Angeles.<\/p>\n
\u201cI remember all the people, the communities that I\u2019d meet,\u201d she said, recalling the artists and musicians who attended her early shows. \u201cThey were such a big part of the early punk art scene, and it just felt immediately like I had found my people in L.A.\u201d<\/p>\n
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Singer Peaches performs during the 66th Locarno Film Festival on August 14, 2013, in Locarno, Switzerland. (Photo by Pier Marco Tacca\/Getty Images)<\/p>\n
The Fonda itself was also part of the attraction. Unlike more conventional concert spaces, the old Hollywood theater offered an atmosphere that invited experimentation.<\/p>\n
Originally opened in 1926 as Carter DeHaven\u2019s Music Box, the venue began as a home for theatrical productions and musical revues before undergoing several transformations, including a period as a movie theater. Over the decades, its stage has welcomed artists ranging from Tom Petty and the Rolling Stones to Billie Eilish and Chappell Roan.<\/p>\n
For Peaches, however, its appeal has never been limited to the names on the marquee.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe Fonda is such a good space. It\u2019s like an old theater, but it\u2019s got that fun feeling. It\u2019s like an old theater that could be haunted, you know?\u201d she shared with a chuckle. \u201cYou\u2019re not doing a theater production there, so you, in a way, you\u2019re changing the space, or you\u2019re making it a bit wilder with the setting.\u201d<\/p>\n
That sense of history, mixed with the freedom to disrupt it, made the room exciting for an artist who has never been content to remain in one place onstage.<\/p>\n
Peaches fondly recalled the theater\u2019s side boxes, which she used to climb into during performances. She would even set up lights in those spaces, transforming parts of the auditorium into extensions of her stage. Footage filmed at the Fonda also appeared in a video for a song from her second record, preserving another glimpse of the unconventional performances that became her signature.<\/p>\n
Those memories carry additional weight as the Fonda marks a century on Hollywood Boulevard. The theater\u2019s anniversary celebration brings together artists from different generations and genres, honoring a venue that has continued to reinvent itself while remaining a gathering place for live music.<\/p>\n
Peaches believes such spaces are increasingly important at a time when creative communities face mounting pressure from commercialization and development.<\/p>\n
\u201cPlaces are being bought up, sanitized, monetized, capitalized without giving space for communities to express themselves, which is the only reason why we got to where we are now,\u201d she said. \u201cSo they\u2019re not really being respected. You have these really small clubs, and then you have the place you arrive. You need these spaces.\u201d<\/p>\n