Phranc - Everywhere I Go (I Hear The Go-Go's)

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Phranc - Everywhere I Go (I Hear The Go-Go's)
Released as a bonus track on the 1985 re-release of her debut album "Folksinger" on Island Records. Written in the early 1980s (and released in 1985), this is Phranc's "ode" to the ubiquitous-ness of her punk rock compatriots the Go-Go's at the time. Having a great sense of humor about it all, the Go-Go's even had this track played immediately before they took the stage every night on their 1990 reunion tour.
Phranc, the self-styled "All-American Jewish Lesbian Folksinger", began her performing career in the late 1970s and early 1980s punk scene in Los Angeles. She had a bleach blonde crewcut and wore male attire creating an androgynous persona for her first band Nervous Gender, which formed in 1978. In 1980 she left Nervous Gender to join Catholic Discipline, in which Claude Bessey, journalist for Slash zine, was the lead singer. She was also in Castration Squad, an all-girl punk band. Phranc appears with Catholic Discipline in The Decline of Western Civilization, a documentary by Penelope Spheeris.
In the 1980s Phranc pursued a solo career. She performs in Paul Morrissey's film Madame Wang's (1981) as Phranque. She began playing an acoustic guitar and released Folksinger on Rhino Records in 1985 (later licensed to Island Records). She opened for music acts such as The Smiths, Hüsker Dü, Violent Femmes, and Billy Bragg. Her second full-length album entitled 'I Enjoy Being a Girl' was released in 1989 with a third 'Positively Phranc', following in 1991.
Phranc was an important influence on the Queercore movement, being acknowledged as such by Team Dresch in their song for her, "Uncle Phranc". In the 1990s many queercore bands and musicians involved in that movement began collaborating with her. She appeared as a guest on the Team Dresch LP/CD Captain My Captain and, as well, members of Team Dresch, Tobi Vail of Bikini Kill, Patty Schemel of Hole and others played with Phranc on her EP Goofyfoot and other songs. Phranc performed and was interviewed in the queercore documentary 'She's Real, Worse Than Queer' by Lucy Thane and she has appeared frequently at queercore events such as Olympia's Homo-a-go-go festival. On her full-length CD of 1998, Milkman, she is joined by Steve McDonald of Redd Kross fame, who plays bass. Her most recent releases, including Milkman, appear on her own independent record label, Phancy Records.
The 2001 documentary film "Lifetime Guarantee", directed by Lisa Udelson, chronicled Phranc's life with a focus on her day job as a Tupperware consultant. Phranc lives with her partner and children in Santa Monica, California, and continues to sell Tupperware. She performs occasionally, but spends more time working on creative visual art projects, including the Cardboard Cobbler sculptures. In December 2007 she had a solo art show at Cue Art Foundation in New York City curated by Ann Magnuson; the New York Times review compared her work to Claes Oldenberg and Andy Warhol.