BP Fallon and his band make their world debut in Texas at SXSW in Austin on March 17.
Their first-ever appearance happens just before BP takes the decks to DJ at Death Disco Texas.
Fronted by BP Fallon (vox), lead guitarist Aaron Lee Tasjan has played with The New York Dolls and the four-piece are powered by the Rock’n'Roll Hall Of Fame-inducted Blondie rhythm section of Nigel Harrison (bass) and Clem Burke (drums).
Joining BP and his band are The Mighty Stef among the additional hot combos.
Date: March 17 St Patrick’s night.
BPF combo stage time: 8pm immediately prior to BP Fallon DJing at Death Disco Texas as part of Frank Murray’s First Annual Fleadh.
Venue: The 4th St Fort, 216 4th Street @ San Jacinta, Austin, Texas.
Event starts midday to 10pm Sponsored by Guinness. FREE ADM!!! Fuck yeah.
Photography: BP Fallon by Mark Nixon. This photograph is the winner of ‘Best Portrait Image’ in the National Photographic Awards Ireland 2010
00:00 BP & The Tayba Boogie & Who Killed Sgt. Pepper?
00:44 You’re Never Alone With BP Fallon – John Lennon
& Jaime Coon & Co
01:18 Tempo 116.7 (reaching for dangerous levels of sobriety)
– The Brian Jonestown Massacre
06:11 BP & The Trumpet Boogie
07:15 I Believe In Elvis Presley – BP Fallon
11:36 BP Fallon Interview By Jack White
15:48 Will There Be Enough Water – The Dead Weather
21:54 The Water’s All Run Dry – Wrinkle Neck Mules
25:59 The Ghost Who Walks – Karen Elson
29:12 BP rabbit
30:34 Someplace Else Unknown – The Brian Jonestown Massacre
36:47 Songs My Friends Taught Me – Laura Veirs
41:13 Because A Woman – Joe King Carrasco
46:04 BP boogaloo
47:13 Tunger Hnifur – The Brian Jonestown Massacre
51:15 Yr Mangled Heart – The Gossip
55:26 John Lennon fucks it
55:29 Magazine – The Mighy Steph
58:51 BP sees old friend
59:35 Ramalama Boogaloo Wang Dang Doodle – Ronnie Drew
59:45 BP bows and exits stage left, smiling about Texas and beyond
61:24 The One – The Brian Jonestown Massacre
64:38 And the jingles jangling go auld triangling
Karen Elson: ‘The Ghost Who Walks’ single cover
The Leather Boys: John Lennon & Paul McCartney &
Gene Vincent say hi from the Cavern Liverpool 1962
by Mike McCartney
00:00 BP Fallon
00:48 Ramalama Boogaloo Wang Dang Doodle – Ronnie Drew
00:58 Space Mountain – Fuck Buttons
09:42 BP verbal
10:13 A Pirate’s Life – We Cut Corners
12:48 Microphone In Brain – Coyle & Sharpe
15:35 Rough Steez – Fuck Buttons
20:19 BP rabbit
21:13 The Lisbon Maru – Fuck Buttons
30:32 Married Creature – Emit Bloch
33:45 Nobody’s Fault But Mine – Blind Willie Johnson
36:53 If I Had My Way – Blind Willie Johnson
40:00 BP boogie
40:33 She Said (She’s Alright) – Sunsplit
44:25 Hold On – The Asteroid #4
49:24 Oh My Mind – The Sounds Of Kaleidoscope
53:50 BP bows to the universe
54:53 Flight Of The Feathered Serpent – Fuck Buttons
64:20 And the jingles jangling go auld triangling
Robert Plant & BP Fallon & evidence, Abbey Road recording studios London Feb 25 2010
Robert Plant was singing at Abbey Road studios in London in aid of Cancer Research, the charity driven by Bob Harris who once had cancer. It was an amazing evening. Over £200,000 was raised.
Robert Plant, after singing with a 76-voice choir – singing the Scott Walker opus ‘Farmer In The City’ and then ‘I Bid You Goodnight’ from The Incredible String Band’s ‘A Very Cellular Song’ with Nigel Eaton on the hurdy gurdy, all magnicent stuff, Robert singing so fucking soulful – after that Robert says to BP “There’s this book someone left for me to sign. There’s a picture of us back then. We must get our picture taken with it”. So they do.
Evidence: BP Fallon & Robert Plant & Vanessa Gilbert meet the snake & the snake man, the balcony of The Continental Hyatt House, Sunset Strip, West Hollywood May 1973. Photograph from ‘Led Zeppelin – The illustrated Biography’ by Gareth Thomas.
Posted by BP Fallon on Monday Mar 1, 2010 Under Rock'n'Roll
Straight to the bone: ‘I Put A Spell On You’ by Shane MacGowan & Friends – including Mick Jones, Bobby Gillespie, Nick Cave, Chrissie Hynde, Paloma Faith, Glen Matlock & Johnny Depp – for Haiti x
00:00 BPF & Girls Together Outrageously
00:21 Ramalama Boogaloo Wang Dang Doodle – Ronnie Drew
00:31 Yourself – Saint Lips
03:13 Coming Down – The BellRays
06:09 U. R. A. Fever – The Kills
08:22 BP verbal
08:50 Losin’ Control – Saint Lips
12:20 Asahara’s Nightmare – Cheap Freaks
14:59 I Heard Wonders – David Holmes
20:26 Crown Of Age – The Ettes
22:37 BP rabbit
23:17 Louisiana Blues – Steve Marriott
26:59 Lend Us A Quid – Steve Marriott
30:51 Bluegrass Interval – Steve Marriott
34:08 BP mouth
34:34 Little Sister – Saint Lips
38:03 Surf Solar – Fuck Buttons
48:35 Electric Landlady – Kila
53:12 Emer’s Dream – Colm Mac Con Iomaire
56:17 BP bows to the universe
57:07 Summer Rain – Saint Lips
61:18 And the jingles jangling go auld triangling
00:00 BP Fallon opens the door
00:05 BP Fallon’s Wang Dang Doodle – The Blind Boys Of Alabama
00:18 Hei Nah Lah – The Asteroid #4
05:24 BP verbal
06:34 Hands Together – Global Sound Lodge w/ lead guitar by Slash
10:42 Dead Mantra – The Dead Skeletons
19:12 All I Want – Sunsplit
21:40 BP rabbit
23:00 Neda (unfinished) – Global Sound Lodge
29:57 Down By The Sea – Wooden Shjips
40:47 BP mouth
41:17 The Ballad Of Sam And Ester (unfinished) – Global Sound Lodge
45:37 The Ballad Of Sarah And Jack – David Holmes
50:01 The Ballad Of Sallie Mae – Tall Tall Trees
54:14 BP blessings
55:13 A Love Supreme (unfinished) – Global Sound Lodge
60:43 And the jingles jangling go auld triangling
February 12th 1970 saw BBC TV’s ‘Top Of The Pops’ first broadcast of the classic performance of ‘Instant Karma’ by John Lennon & The Plastic Ono Band with – from left to right – John Lennon [vocals & piano], Yoko Ono [knitting & Kotex eyewear], the Beatles’ road manager Mal Evans [tambourine], BP Fallon [bass guitar & hat], the Apple Records official House Hippy Richard DiLello [camera], Klaus Voorman [bass guitar] and Alan White [drums].
‘Instant Karma’ produced by Phil Spector.
The following week John Lennon was to be heard being interviewed on BBC radio by Emperor Rosko and telling his host “BP Fallon playing the bass guitar, that’s concept art”.
“I can’t play bass” says BP today, laughing, “but it’s better than whacking a tambourine into John’s left ear and almost putting him off his singing”. Which – as our next two pictures show – is what BP did the previous week on the Top Of The Pops of February 5th 1970…
Poets Of Rhythm, Art From The Heart, People For Peace:
Yoko & John with Peter Fallon and Eamon Carr’s Tara Telephone
‘Capella’ publication, the very edition – ‘Capella 3′ – that contained the drawing that John Lennon had done for ‘Capella’ the previous year at his and Yoko’s Amsterdam Bed-In.
‘Capella 3′ cover artwork by Jim Fitzpatrick.
Yoko & John photographed 1970 by Richard DiLello.
Photograph printed 1970 by Pete Saunders for Peter Fallon.
“And we all shine on…”
Photography: A Misfit, a Teddy Bear and flowers, Strawberry Fields Central Park New York City by BP Fallon
00:00 BP Fallon opens the door
00:09 Ramalama Boogaloo Wang Dang Doodle – Ronnie Drew
00:18 We Fall Away – Sunsplit
05:49 Straight Lines – Humanzi
09:01 BP rabbit
09:34 The Stride – Clague
12:06 Strange Locomotion – Siren
14:58 His Guiding Hand – Medicine Head
18:55 BP verbal
19:31 Down By The Sea – Wooden Shjips
30:22 Could Be, Doesn’t Matter – The Heads
34:15 Shorter – Humanzi
41:07 BP mouth
42:02 Black Sunrise – Humanzi
46:44 Genuine – Sharon Jones & The Dap-Kings
50:36 More Mess On My Thing – The Poets Of Rhythm
54:29 BP says it was 40 years ago today
55:05 John Lennon sensibly doesn’t give a fuck
55:09 BP exits stage left, smiling
55:39 Amsterdamaged – Humanzi
59:42 And the jingles jangling go auld triangling
Posted by BP Fallon on Thursday Feb 11, 2010 Under BP Fallon
eBay has revealed this little bargain:
BP Fallon’s ‘Fame #9′ rare white, yellow and black tricolour vinyl 7″ 45 – only 150 of these records were pressed at United Record Pressing in Nashville with 100 sold in person at the Third Man Records store in Nashville at $5 each and 50 of these tricolour singles inserted randomly into world-wide mail-orders…
We’re happy anyway. We wish you the same. Happy everything.
Image: Wax into gold – BPF ‘Fame #9′ rare tricolour vinyl 7″ 45 single.
Image (top): 4 X 4 on Third Man Records – top left clockwise -
Wanda Jackson, BP Fallon, The Black Belles and Carl Sagan.
The original Third Man Records sleeves for Wanda/BP/BBelles:
Photography by Jo McCaughey
We prefer this kind of war, where idiots show themselves to be idiots to everyone but idiots. We salute The White Stripes. War is over if you want it. Rock’n'Roll.
Image: The White Stripes ‘Get Behind Me Satan’ album cover.
Even Meg’s apple can’t tempt Jack from gazing in wonderment at
BP’s single or into space somewhere
00:00 – Dave says “Shut up!” and BP says “Why am I getting echo?”
00:26 – Rock’n’Roll – Led Zeppelin
04:04 – I Wanna Be Your Dog – The Stooges
07:08 – Fallon & Fanning: John Bonham and ‘Starship’ and Ron Asheton
and “the lonely and sad death of Kurt Cobain”
11:50 – The Man Who Sold The World – Nirvana
15:24 – Fallon on Fanning: Courtney in the Hole and Bobby Fuller on fire
18:10 – I Fought The Law – The Bobby Fuller Four
19:21 – I Fought The Law – The Clash
21:54 – Fallon on Fanning: Strummerville and Buddy Holly and King Curtis
24:27 – Reminiscing – Buddy Holly & King Curtis
26:22 – Fallon on Fanning: “The most obnoxious group ever, Queen”
plus Richie Valens and Zeppo and Mrs Valens and Dr John
30:20 – Spanish Stroll – Willie De Ville
32:58 – Fallon & Fanning: Willie De Ville
33:50 – The Wizard – Johnny Thunders w/ BP Fallon (harmonica/vox)
35:36 – Fallon & Fanning: “Hold on a second now!” says Dave and BP talks about Johnny Thunders and Chris Wood of Traffic and Phil Lynott and Steve Marriott
36:19 – Daddy Rolling Stone – Johnny Thunders & Phil Lynott & Steve Marriott plus Steve Jones & Paul Cook
39:17 – Fallon & Fanning & Marc Bolan
41:59 – 21st Century Stance – Marc Bolan & BP Fallon
44:16 – Fallon & Fanning: The Prophecies Of Sages Marc to Jimi to Henry McCullough
47:42 – Red House – The Jimi Hendrix Experience
51:25 – Fever – The Cramps
52:46 – Fallon & Fanning: Lux Interior & Bryan Gregory & Johnny Kidd & Mick Green
54:16 – Shot Of Rhythm’n’Blues – Johnny Kidd & The Pirates w/ Mick Green
55:20 – Fallon & Fanning & John Lennon
56:29 – I Am The Walrus – The Beatles
60:02 – Fallon on Fanning: plane-crashes & murders & “John Lennon and The Beatles changed the world with their attitude” to Michael Jackson RIP at The Apollo in Harlem
62:38 – I Want You Back – The Jackson 5
64:17 – Fallon on Fanning on ‘Death By Doctor’
65:35 – Little Sister (false starts) – Elvis Presley
67:35 – Fallon & Fanning: Elvis & Lady GaGa & ‘I Believe In Elvis Presley’
70:24 – I Believe In Elvis Presley – BP Fallon
BP Fallon’s Wang Dang Doodle with Band Of The Week – from Philadelphia - The Asteroid #4 And! BP Fallon talking to Phil Lynott from ‘The BP Fallon Orchestra’ 1982
The Asteroid #4 ‘These Flowers Of Ours’ album cover
00:00 – BP Fallon announces today’s menu, loosely
00:27 – “When in doubt… fuck it!” sez John Lennon
00:29 – Ramalama Boogaloo Wang Dang Doodle – Ronnie Drew
00:39 – Hei Na La – The Asteroid #4
05:41 – Flight Of The Feathered Serpent – Fuck Buttons
15:06 – BP verbal
15:13 – War – The Asteroid #4
21:25 – Phantom Limb – Fuck Buttons
26:24 – BP outros & intros
27:23 – BP Fallon talking to Phil Lynott from
‘The BP Fallon Orchestra’ 1982
28:32 – Bad Experience (Live) – Auto Da Fe & Phil Lynott
34:39 – Tribute To Sandy Denny – Phil Lynott & Clann Eadair
38:49 – BP chinwagging
39:30 – Rough Steez – Fuck Buttons
44:12 – Tempomaniac – Bipolar Empire
47:27 – Hold On – The Asteroid #4
52:29 – BP rabbit
52:55 – Where The Hell Is Henry? – Chuck Prophet
55:09 – I Couldn’t Sleep For Thinking Of Hank Williams – Henry McCullough
58:58 – Shining Star – Henry McCullough
64:08 – BP does the ‘I Did It Highway’ boogie, for now
64:58 – I Look Around – The Asteroid #4
68:06 – And the jingles jangling go auld triangling
Photography: BP Fallon & Phil Lynott at ‘Glen Corr’, Howth, Dublin 1982
by Caroline Lynott
Posted by BP Fallon on Tuesday Feb 2, 2010 Under BP Fallon
Photography: BP Fallon and Jack White by Jo McCaughey
at Third Man Records Nashville Tennesee
with wondrous words by Allan Jones Uncut magazine March 2010
Posted by BP Fallon on Saturday Jan 30, 2010 Under BP Fallon
DJ Latola in The Den on BreakThruRadio has a chinwag a go go with BP Fallon. A fascinating chat, talking about everything under the sun and a few things under the moon too. Riveting.
“One Shangri La of a show!” says DJ Latola. “BP Fallon is rock’n'roll. A rock’n'roll icon…”
Subjects covered in this in-depth interview range from Phil Spector and Beatles manager Brian Epstein to Hope Sandoval’s sandwiches and BP’s biggest vice – to the most expensive thing he’s ever broken plus the 1960 movie of the Jack Kerouac book ‘The Subterraneans’ and why people listen to music. “I’m all for madness and danger and wildness” says BP.
Posted by BP Fallon on Friday Jan 29, 2010 Under BP Fallon
“I was rolling a joint in a club in New York and Jack White came over to me and asked me to make a record with him.”
It’s the sort of sentence only one person could have uttered, writes Brian Boyd in The Ticket in today’s Irish Times before continuing:
We all know that Irish musical Zelig BP Fallon can talk the talk but he’s also walked the walk: working with The Beatles’ Apple label in the 1960s, being T.Rex’s press officer, working with Led Zeppelin, representing Ian Dury, managing Johnny Thunders, touring with U2 and now, with Alan McGee, globe-trotting around with the Death Disco club night.
Credentials established and CV scrutinised, we still need to know why the most important figure in popular music of the past decade, Jack White (whose reputation has been greatly enhanced by his scene-stealing performance in the current It Might Get Loud documentary) fancied a tangle with the man Bono calls a “vibe master”…
00:00 – BP shows Britney the mic
00:06 – Britney turns us on
00:09 – Ramalama Boogaloo Wang Dang Doodle – Ronnie Drew
00:19 – We Fall Away – Sunsplit
05:50 – I Killed My Best Friend – Le Volume Courbe
07:03 – BP rabbit
07:22 – What’s Up Doc? – Carbon/Silicon
13:07 – Comin’ Round Again – Kevn Kinney
16:31 – 21st Century Stance – Marc Bolan & BP Fallon
18:48 – BP mouth
19:28 – Sitting In Your Head – Le Volume Courbe
21:49 – Thank You – Le Volume Courbe
22:56 – Rock’n’Roll Motherfucker – The D4
24:54 – BP verbal
25:16 – All I Want – Sunsplit
27:45 – Hanging Around – Le Volume Courbe
29:56 – This And That – Le Volume Courbe
32:25 – BP again
33:14 – My Girls (Dave Wrangler Rmx) – Animal Collective
40:09 – Olympians – Fuck Buttons
51:03 – This Is The End – Steve Conte
53:56 – Dollar In My Pocket – The Come Ons
56:17 – BP bows to the universe
57:01 – Freight Train – Le Volume Courbe
59:36 – And the jingles jangling go auld triangling
Photography: Melanie Draisey of Le Volume Courbe &
Willie B Carruthers of Brian Jonestown Massacre by BP Fallon
By popular request, we are ultra vibed to again bring you BP Fallon’s Wang Dang Doodle Into 2010
It was our 10th Birthday, doing this Wang Dang Into 2010 on Today FM. Yes, our 10th anniversary. We’re honoured to do this show from Dublin every New Year’s Eve, bringing Ireland and – via our listenership on the web – the whole wide world into the next twelve months and whatever adventures lie ahead.
The slogan of the 60s tv show ‘Ready Steady Go!’ was “The weekend starts here!” and our slogan this year was “The next decade starts here!” And it did…
With enormous appreciation to Aodhán O’Connor, sound and soundness on every New Year’s Eve Wang Dang Doodling since the year 1999 into 2000. Mega thanks, Aodhán! And thank you too to Willie O’Reilly and Brian Adams.
Photography: BP Fallon at the TodayFM controls by Aodhán O’Connor
“One Shangri La of a show!” says DJ Latola. “BP Fallon is rock’n'roll. A rock’n'roll icon…”
We all know that Irish musical Zelig BP Fallon can talk the talk but he’s also walked the walk: working with The Beatles’ Apple label in the 1960s, being T.Rex’s press officer, working with Led Zeppelin, representing Ian Dury, managing Johnny Thunders, touring with U2 and now, with Alan McGee, globe-trotting around with the Death Disco club night.
