When Netflix turned Sydney’s Cockatoo Island into a gothic playground for the Wednesday Island event, Peach PRC was the Australian pop star soundtracking the night. Boats carried fans across the harbour to a set of Tim Burton-inspired theatrics – howling dogs, dark tunnels, fire-lit ravens, and crowds in outcast cosplay. Cast members Jenna Ortega, Emma Myers, Gwendoline Christie and Hunter Doohan were there, along with Burton himself. When the production kicked off, Peach PRC took centre stage.
“It came through from my team, and they asked if I was a fan of the show. I was like, yes, of course I am,” Peach PRC tells Rolling Stone AU/NZ. “I think it was between me and some other artists, and I was so pumped that I got chosen. I felt very lucky and very honoured that I got to be a part of it.”
For Peach, the show was on a scale she rarely experiences, with big staging, full production, and dancers behind her. “It felt like a really magical moment to come out with everyone in costume and do this big moment from the show, like doing ‘Bloody Mary’ and ‘Goo Goo Muck‘,” she says. “It was just a really cool moment.”
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The set leaned fully into the Wednesday vibe. “I really wanted to do a Tim Burton–inspired fairy look for my outfit,” she explains. “And I wanted to do a nod to that Lady Gaga TikTok moment, how she had that viral song with the show. I’m just such a fan of her and the song and I wanted to do my take on it. It was cool to sing in a different way that I don’t typically do. It was a lot lower for me and a lot more dark.”
Rehearsals included light choreography (“I’m not much of a dancer, but they did get me to do a couple of moves,” she laughs) and recording new backing vocals for her cover of “Bloody Mary”.
It wasn’t just the Netflix A-list in attendance. Peach clocked plenty of her own loyal following in the crowd. “It’s always nice to see familiar faces of people that have been to shows of mine before,” she says. “That’s always comforting, like okay, my people are here. We’re all having fun.”
Though she didn’t get the chance to hang out with Burton or Ortega – “just a very quick hello as they walked past me” – she did get to tick off another first: setting foot on Cockatoo Island. “I’d never even heard of it before! We went by boat, so that was really cool. We got a boat home as well, which was really nice.”
Like Wednesday Addams herself, Peach PRC knows something about being an outcast. “The outcasting theme that they really lean into with the series really resonates with me a lot and my music and my audience,” she says. “I feel like that a lot of the time, and I think so do a lot of my listeners. It makes a lot of sense that we’re all fans of Wednesday.”
For now, Peach’s calendar is packed with upcoming US dates, and back home, an album is in the works. “I’m writing, recording, then thinking it’s finished, then going wait, I actually want to write five more things and scrap all of that and start again,” she admits. “It’s a lot of back and forth.”
Keep an eye on Rolling Stone AU/NZ for our interviews with Jenna Ortega and Tim Burton.
