Peach PRC sits in her bedroom, her walls not that much different from when she first began carving out her now significant presence on TikTok in 2019 – except for the odd gold record framed behind her.
The 'God Is A Freak' singer is relaxed, preparing a gardening journal when the Zoom call begins. She turns her camera around to proudly show off her seedlings, growing nicely in miniature greenhouses that are lined with a healthy amount of condensation.It's a new hobby for Peach, she says, but one that she's been really getting into. "I do it because I like caring for things," she says, "especially seeds."
Without steering the conversation into an area too full of whimsy, there's much Peach agrees to be related to the growth and nurture of a plant, having nurtured her craft and grown exponentially recently.
In a short space of time, Peach has released a lot of great tunes and garnered a lot of attention from some pivotal people in the industry.
There's still plenty to be learned from seasoned industry figures, mind you, evident in Peach's work with American songwriter Bonnie McKee on the former's latest single 'Forever Drunk'. "I had her on my list of people I wanted to work with for so long," Peach begins.
"I was obsessed with the work she did with Katy Perry and Britney Spears. I loved [McKee's single and EP] 'American Girl' and 'Bombastic', and I used to strip to her music back when I was dancing.
"The early 2010s was such an iconic era of pop, and when I saw she'd written all these massive hits, we followed each other on TikTok and I was like, 'Of course she wrote those songs, of course!' My label asked if there was a dream collaborator I wanted to work with and I was like 'Bonne!'.
"We did a couple of songs together and I want to put them all out, because they're pretty iconic in my opinion, because they have Bonnie's touch on them. She genuinely loves pop and loves writing that kind of music.
"It was a crazy thing," Peach continues of her newfound relationship with Bonnie, "that we had so much in common. Not just sonically, musically, but in the way that our brains work and the way that we write. We have so much in common, we're actually pretty good friends now."
Despite the valuable teaching experience, Peach had a hard time relinquishing control. "I've always found co-writing difficult because I'm so precious about my lyrics," she says.
"Because they're part of my soul I find it hard to share that part of myself with someone else. It's like someone saying, 'Let me write in your journal for you!'
"But with Bonnie, because I respect her so much and value her input, I swallowed my pride a bit and stopped being so intense. She said, 'You have to kill your darlings sometimes'. We scrapped 50 per cent of what I had and now 'Forever Drunk', it's a sick song. Sometimes you have to sacrifice for the sake of the bop."
As her star continues to burn brightly, Peach is ready to take to the festival stages of Falls Festival where she'll be performing alongside a number of her friends.
"It's always interesting when I see a line-up with a lot of Aussie artists – like G Flip and MAYA, who I'm actually friends with – and I feel like we're all doing our own thing so separately but we're in the same scene, so it's interesting being on a line-up [together].
"Like, I'm super over the top, like I love that tacky, cheesy pop. I think a lot of Aussie artists, especially my friends, it's almost more indie, more laidback, and not so much of an intense thing – I always feel a little out of place.
"I did a festival recently and I got out of the car in a sparkly fairy outfit with glitter and wings on, and everyone else is coming out of their cars with guitars and amps,and full band and drums and going crazy and I'm there like 'Tehehe!'. I form my own, funny little niche."
Even though she prefers to carve her own place in the scene, Peach maintains there's still so much she can learn from her peers in all areas of music.
"I think I've learned a lot from friends, because a lot of them started with pub gigs and busking. I started in my bedroom. I've always done everything from my bedroom.
"I had never performed on a stage and suddenly, everything opened up and I had, like, a million fans. Something I learned from my friends, watching them perform at gigs, I was really studying how they moved and interact with fans. They've given me a lot of great advice."
Peach PRC plays Falls Festival 2022/23 series in Colac, Byron Bay and Fremantle. Peach PRC also plays the inaugural Heaps Good music festivak at Adelaide Showground 6 January, 2023.
Falls Festival 2022-2023 Dates
29-31 Dec - Pennyroyal Plains (Colac)31 Dec to 2 Jan - North Byron Parklands (Byron Bay)
7-8 Jan - Fremantle Park (Fremantle)
Falls Festival 2022-2023 Line-up
Arctic MonkeysLil Nas X
Peggy Gou
Chvrches
Jamie xx
Aminé
Ocean Alley
CamelPhat
Spacey Jane
DMA'S
G Flip
PinkPantheress
Rico Nasty
Amyl And The Sniffers
Mall Grab
Ben Böhmer (LIVE)
DJ Seinfeld
Genesis Owusu
TSHA
CC:Disco!
Young Franco
Anna Lunoe
Luude
Lastlings
May-A
Choomba
The Vanns
King Stingray
Peach PRC
Beddy Rays
Jean Dawson
Telenova
Biscits
Barry Can't Swim
Floodlights
Elkka
Wongo
Yng Martyr
1300
Moktar
Magdalena Bay
Dameeeela
Ebony Boadu
Elsy Wameyo
Rona.
Juno Mamba
