BP Fallon

BP Fallon’s Wang Dang Doodle podcast on BreakThruRadio Oct 9 2009 with
a hot plate of Wang Dang Doodle fave raves

BP Fallon’s Wang Dang Doodle featuring fave raves

00:00 – BP Fallon opens the door
00:11 – Jimi Hendrix walks in
00:20 – Ramalama Boogaloo Wang Dang Doodle – Ronnie Drew
00:29 – La Realite – Amadou & Mariam
03:57 – Psyched Out And Furious – The Flaming Sideburns
08:05 – 21st Century Protest Song – Nik Leman

Full playlist and more pix at BreakThruRadio.com

Treble dynamite! DJs BPF & MayKay & Elvis at DDD at The Academy!

Photography by Ruth Medjber Oct 3 2009

The view from the panel: photography by BP Fallon Oct 3 2009

Chaired by Hot Press’ Stuart Clark, a panel of music business experts and pundits heatedly debated how music will survive in the digital age. The panel consisted of John Kennedy (CEO IFPI), Shane O’Neill (Snr VP Liberty Global), Bill Whelan (Composer, Riverdance), BP Fallon (Rock’n'Roll Vibe Man) and Jim Killock (Executive Director Open Rights Group).

In the elegant surroundings of Ireland’s prestigious Royal Dublin Society, threats of imprisonment for illegal downloading jostled with more sanguine thoughts on how best to monetise the situation so that artists – including songwriters – would be more fully paid for their work.

“I know my role here today is as the anarchist Anti-Christ”, said BP Fallon to much laughter, “that I’m meant to be saying ‘Fuck everyone, take the music, who cares?’ Well, I do care”. He then talked of the perceived morality of downloading music without paying for it – “nearly two generations, most of them wouldn’t dream of paying for recorded music, it doesn’t come into the picture, unless they’re buying their granny an ABBA CD” – and likened it to nicking apples from the orchard on the way to school. “You’re going ‘There’s thousands more apples. So what, one or two…’ But in the back of your head there’s maybe this message blinking, y’know?”

95% of music downloads are downloaded for free.

“As long as Chuck Berry is around, everything is as it should be” says Bob Dylan. Chuckleberry graced the stage at BB King’s club off Times Square in New York, with rockin’ support by Dublin girl Imelda May on her first-ever visit to The Promised Land.

Photography: Chuck by BP Fallon | BP & Imelda by Brian Hand Sept 12

BP Fallon DJed at Ireland’s Electric Picnic Music & Arts Festival as well as chairing two panels at EP’s Mindfield – ‘The Music Business: Is It Broken?’ and ‘The Art Of The Cartoon’ – as well as introducing Bob Gruen and his ‘Rock’n'Roll Story’ told through his iconographic photography and anecdotes.

Photography: Barney at lib-lab Sept 6

More pix of The BP Fallon Orchestra at Electric Picnic

BP Fallon’s Wang Dang Doodle podcast on BreakThruRadio Oct 2 2009 with
Wang Dang Doodle Artist Of The Week – from California – Holly Beth Vincent

BP Fallon’s Wang Dang Doodle feat Holly Beth Vincent

00.00 BP Fallon beaming in from Dublin
00.20 Jimi Hendrix sets the tone
00.29 John Lennon joins in
01.28 Ramalama Boogaloo Wang Dang Doodle – Ronnie Drew
01.38 This Is The End – Steve Conte
04.30 Glitterbug – Slinky Vagabond
09.10 BP beaming
09.55 Never Enough Girls – Holly Beth Vincent

Full playlist and more pix at BreakThruRadio.com

BP Fallon’s Wang Dang Doodle podcast Sept 25 2009 with
Wang Dang Doodle Band Of The Week – from Nashville, Tennessee – The Ettes

BP Fallon’s Wang Dang Doodle featuring The Ettes

00:00 – BP Fallon opens the door
00:09 - Ramalama Boogaloo Wang Dang Doodle – Ronnie Drew
00:19 - Blood Red Blood – The Ettes
02:33 - Bass Balls – Humanzi
05:02 - Feel That You Own It – Bipolar Empire
08:29 - Girl In Love – Smith Westerns
11:23 - BP Fallon vibing

Full playlist and more pix at BreakThruRadio.com