“There’s nothing wrong with a little bit of uh, ah… There’s nothing wrong with a lotta lotta uh, ah,” sings electro-pop singer Peaches in her single Trick or Treat. Tonight, Jakarta is going to get just that.

The influential Canadian singer, groundbreaking for her signature gender-bending and sexually charged lyrics is slated to perform for Jakarta’s disco-loving crowd tonight at Indochine nightclub in the FX Lifestyle Center in Sudirman, South Jakarta. She performed in Bali on Thursday.

Event organizer Ashram sponsored by watch producer Vestal is bringing the singer to the capital of the world’s most populous Muslim-majority country, as part of her Spring Asia tour after releasing her latest and best-selling album to date I Feel Cream.

Ashram manager Jitin Kewalramani said his company brought Peaches to entertain a niche of partygoers, who love edgy techno-pop and disco music, because she would “definitely put on a good show”.

The former schoolteacher turned musician has a non-conforming style of dressing, a mixture of crass-glam and ugly-beautiful, which varies between giant shoulder tops to skimpy comic-hero suits.

She has received rave reviews on her extravagant concerts, filled with sexual innuendo gimmicks, with some people hyperbolically relating her concert with the eruption of a volcano (that had been dormant for the last 200 years) in Iceland in 2010.

But Kewalramani said there was more to her than her act. “There’s more to her than just her music. She’s very much fighting for gender rights and sexual freedom,” he said.

He said that bringing her to perform in Indonesia, which has a large population of religious people and small but hardline religious groups, did give him some concern. “But we want to give it a shot anyway because this is something we believe in,” he said.

“We understand Indonesia is a culturally sensitive country but there are a lot of things going on in this country,” he said.

He added that he expected around 1,000 people to show up at Indochine.

In an email interview, Merrill Beth Nisker — better known as Peaches — said that she would not know how she would feel performing in a relatively conservative country until she tried it.

Peaches shot to fame with her debut album The Teaches of Peaches, which features legendary song F*ck the pain away, followed by two albums Fatherf*cker and Impeach My Bush.

Music critics deemed I Feel Cream showed Peaches had evolved musically, while staying true to her sexual revolution trademark. Nisker told the The Jakarta Post that from Teaches of Peaches to I Feel Cream, her music “went from an intimate bedroom recording experience to a public revolution”.

The line up for Peaches’ show Friday night seems to guarantee a fun party. Kewalramani said that local disk jockey DJ Ken Aditya and electro house group Rogers Room would open the show.

After Peaches, DJ Harvey will blow out a live set and techno-disco group Sh*t Robot will end the set. He added that Ashram wanted to create parties that were more intimate and more interactive with the crowd.

Meanwhile, Nisker said Jakarta residents could look forward to “a one-woman extravagance, with 500 percent energy coming from me and fun, fun, fun!”.

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