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God (Live at ABC No Rio)

from Lach Live at ABC No Rio, NYC, 1980's by Lach

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ABC No Rio was directly across the street from my illegal after hours joint where Antifolk was born, The Fort. The Fort's infamous open stage, The Antihoot, was on Monday nights and became NYC's longest running and most successful open stage of all time. ABC No Rio's open stage was beautifully run by Matthew Courtney and between it, The Fort and No Se No a bit further up Rivington Street and anarchic and joyous community went wild in the 1980's and was dubbed by some as 'The Rivington School'. You had to be there.
This cut, Gods, has yet to be recorded in a 'real' studio but here it is, years earlier, stripped down, live, raw and Antifolk stylee.

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GOD

Baby $troller got it all sussed
Some do what they can, some do what they must
They pay her with tickets reading in God we trust
Baby's life is a journey
She goes from bust to bust

She bend down for a cigarette
Dropped outside the discothèque
But before she puts it to her shiny lips
She looks up to God and blows him a holy kiss

Yeah! Yeah! God is everywhere!
He's over here
He's over there
Yeah! Yeah!

He's at the window of Baby $troller
Watching her dance for a naked nun
The sister thinks her life is over
But God knows it's just begun

Yeah! Yeah! God is everywhere!
He's over here
He's over there
Yeah! Yeah!

Hallelujah!

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from Lach Live at ABC No Rio, NYC, 1980's, released April 24, 2017
Lach - Guitar and Vocals
Recorded live on a hand-held video camera at ABC No Rio (NYC) sometime in the mid-1980's.

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Lach Edinburgh, UK

Lach, founder of the Antifolk movement and star of BBC Radio 4's The Lach Chronicles.

‘Beat-punk-unplugged joy!’-The Guardian UK

‘Splendid! Best of it's kind!’- Mojo

‘Incredibly bright, influential, funny, poetic.’-Suzanne Vega

‘Best punk guitarist since Johnny Ramone.’-Billy Ficca of Televis
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