IN DEPTH: Peaches "Boys Wanna Be Her"

Electro-punk Peaches borrows the vamp of AC/DC's "Dirty Deeds Done Dirt Cheap" while she and her all-star underground band — including Samantha Maloney of Hole/Motley Crue on drums, and Le Tigre's JD Samson and The Need's Radio Sloan on "keytars" — inflict some serious damage to themselves. What starts out as a simple glam performance soon becomes a bloodbath that would make the ultimate shock rocker GG Allin proud. Director Kris Lefcoe lets us in on the secrets and starts some legends about this gory work of art:

• Wrecking instruments is one thing, but wrecking YOURSELF with your instruments, now THAT's rock 'n' roll!
• JD's forehead was completely lumpy by the end of the shoot and her eyes were starting to cross. She really threw herself into the performance!
• I left the set bruised and bloody myself -- demonstrating for Peaches how the mic was rigged so it wouldn't hurt, I bonked myself in the head with it and had a bruise for a week. The art department made some adjustments.
• We brought in a special hair stylist armed with a battalion of razors for the closeup shots of Peaches' crotch.
• Real blood? Of course! We used blood gathered from rock performances for the past four decades. There's a bit of Iggy Pop, some GG Allin, and a hint of Alice Cooper in every drop!

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credits: Kris Lefcoe, directors | Chris Noviello, producer | Oil Factory, production co | Simon Thrilaway, DP | Victor Brown, editor