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2001
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December 2001
WARNING!
BP FALLON IS RADIO ACTIVE + TELEVISUAL!
BP Fallon will be all over the place on New Year's Eve and the
beginning of 2002!
Our rock'n'roll adventurer appears on Gerry Ryan's Hitlist
on RTE Network 2 television on New Years's Day at 10.15
pm GMT. Sitting there in a wine-coloured Chinese smoking jacket
covered in gold dragons, bp talks about everyone from Phil
Lynott to Sinéad
O'Connor to The Dubliners to Van
Morrison to U2
- all interspersed with rare archive film of the artists from
the RTE vaults.
On New Year's Eve, bp deejays live on TodayFM radio with
his shakin' five-hour sonic extravaganza BP Fallon's Wang
Dang Wipeout - which kicks off at 8pm GMT and rocks the
planet till 1am GMT on New Year's Day. BP promises everyone
from Bubba Sparxxx to Primal
Scream, George Formby to Jimi Hendrix, Slim Harpo to
Lee 'Scratch' Perry, Serge Gainsbourg to the
Chemical Brothers.
On New Year's Day at 6pm GMT TodayFM radio broadcasts
the first hour of George Harrison: The Beatle And The Beep
- music and chat drawn from bp's famous 1987 candid conversations
with George Harrison [see below] - followed by the second hour
at 6pm GMT the following day, Wednesday January 2nd.
Check out George Harrison and BP Fallon - joined by Eamon Dunphy
- in 'The Beatle And The
Beep Radio Jingle'!
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Downtown
Elvis joined by John Lee Hooker
Downtown Elvis is the project by a group of Waterford artists
- DJs, producers and musicians - who created Tearface Records.
Shining a light on the underground music scene in the southeast
of Ireland, the album contains a whole rake of styles - from
techno to showband via sampled Serge Gainsbourg.
Our featured track is by Peter Vogelaar - also a member
of The Adult Babies - who scores with the techno/electro funk
rampage of My First Wife Left Me and its sampled down'n'dirty
alley cat vocal by the crawling kingsnake his'self John Lee
Hooker. Requires RealPlayer
Voices
of America: "A Toughening Of The Soul"
A selection of emails sent to
bp since - and about - September 11
"We're
OK, I was in Jersey to get the car tuned and saw the 2nd plane
hit the tower! un fucking real, got home 12 hours later. I'm
still in shock, Eliz was very shaken, but better now".
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October
2001
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Wang
Dang Thank You Ma'am: Visions Of Bob
Following the pumpin' Wang Dang Doodle
special on funked-up music and then the wild night of punk
rockin', the latest series of BP Fallon's Wang Dang Doodle
on Ireland's
Today FM climaxed in a grand finale
with the results of The Best Bob Dylan Song and The Worst
Bob Dylan Song.
Voted by the show's listeners, the public responded via text
message and email. The counting of your votes was adjudicated
by Mr.
Keith Duffy who was there to see that there was no monkey
business. In fact, the balloting went so smoothly that Mr.
Duffy allowed himself the chance to join Mr. Fallon on the
decks and introduce a couple of storming tracks, Kick Out
The Jams by the MC5 and Teenage Head by the Flamin' Groovies,
before the winning Dylan songs were aired.
Your
Vote: Worst Bob Dylan Song
1-
Trouble (from Shot Of Love)
2- Wiggle Wiggle (from Under The Red Sky)
3- The Ugliest Girl In The World (from Down In The Groove)
Your
Vote: Best Bob Dylan Song
1- Visions Of Johanna (from Blonde On Blonde)
2- Hurricane (from Desire)
3- Tangled Up In Blue (from Blood On The Tracks)
To
mark the release of Bob Dylan's
43rd
official album Love And Theft, bpfallon.com presents
the complete 1997 radio programme BP
Fallon's Icons#9: Bob Dylan
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Picture
this too: the ethereal and extraordinary Shibuya
Gals from Yoyogi Park in Tokyo, photographed by bp on his
deejay trip to Japan. "Wafting waif wraiths, surreal and real
and brilliant and always always they're beautiful, even the
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September
2001
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WARNING:
BP Fallon is radio active
BP live on the radio in Ireland! Hear him globally on the
net!
BP Fallon's Wang Dang Doodle is beaming out of the TodayFM
studios for a forthright fortnight from Sunday September 9th
to Thursday September 20th. Our acclaimed eclectic warrior
- fresh from deejaying in Tokyo and New York - is spinning
everything from the Chemical Brothers to Otis Redding, The
Pretty Things to Marilyn Monroe, Primal Scream to Hank Williams,
Madonna to Daft Punk, Vince Taylor to Serge Gainsbourg, Howlin'
Wolf to Destiny's Child, Bob Dylan to Lil' Kim.
BP
Fallon's Wang Dang Doodle airs live on Sundays from 11pm to
1am, on Mondays thru Thursdays from 10pm till midnight GMT.
Described by Harry Browne in the Irish Times on August 25th
as "Irish radio's immortal dreamer... a seriously hip dj",
our hero preceded BP Fallon's Wang Dang Doodling when he joined
lauded house dj Mr.
Spring on the anarchic record review programme The Firing
Squad on Saturday September 8th on RTE 2FM.
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July
2001
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Japan,
America, the World!
BP Fallon and Alan McGee wow Japan!
Fallon And Alan joined by Poptones recording artists Technique
had a wild time shaking a tailfeather or two through Japan on
the radio4 world tour, the double dynamite deejay duo leaving
fans in Osaka and Tokyo in altered states of joyful bewilderment.
In Osaka, our heroes played till five in the morning and then
the entire audience in a spontaneous gesture lined up to shake
bp and Alan's hand. In Tokyo the gig finished up with the audience
invading
the stage. In between, bp and McGee rode the famous Bullet
Train from Osaka to Tokyo, for once travelling on the ground
even faster than their lunatic bubble of plans, plots and possibilities.
For The Real Truth About Japan, read Alan
McGee at the mercy of the elements.
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New
York all shook up!
In
New York the latest series of radio4 gigs featuring Fallon And Alan
drew a crazy rockin' crowd of hipsters, tripsters and flipsters
that include Anita Pallenberg, Lenny Kaye, Jaime Coon, Bob Gruen
and Elizabeth Gregory, Greg Garing, Nik Leman and Tony Strong, Ken
Springfellow from REM, Andy Rourke and Mike Joyce from the Smiths
plus a rare appearence in public by rock'n'roll enigma Seth Nettles.
Fallon And Alan - the Irish rock'n'roll renegade and the maverick
musicbizness mogul from Scotland, a real pair of celts - have spun
together under the radio4 banner in Brooklyn and Detroit
as well as shaking Manhattan and Japan.
Vibe
into Poptones to read McGee on BP in
'The Legend Of King Boogaloo'.
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June
2001
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Picture
this too: BP continues his photographic adventures with
Jaime Coon. This studio
shot taken in New York is part of an ongoing body of work. To
see a complete portfolio,
short film and biography of Jaime, clit here.
The Photography section of bpfallon.com
contains a selection of some of BP's best
rock'n'roll images, with shots of Bono, Ian Dury, Van Morrison,
Johnny Thunders,
Bobby Gillespie, Phil Lynott, Sinéad O'Connor, Little
Richard and Keith'n'Ronnie
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Joey
Ramone's 50th Birthday Bash in New York... what a party!
Friends and fans gathered together at the Hammerstien Ballroom
to celebrate the life, times, music and fun of Joey Ramone.
Blondie played, with Debbie shining. Rare Ramones videos were
shown. Friends recalled the joy of Joey. Lenny Kaye read for
us a goodbye note to Joey from Phil
Spector. The Damned, whose Captain Sensible sings on Joey's
forthcoming album, the Damned they played too, New Rose and
Neat Neat Neat and Smash It Up. Joey would've loved it. He did,
actually.
Life's a gas.
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Hot New News Flash!
BP Fallon and Alan McGee to deejay in Japan! Mad duo shake New York!
The Japanese tour by Fallon And Alan plays Osaka on Friday June
29 and Tokyo on Sunday July 1, before the Radio4 deejays whizz half-way
around the globe again to appear at New York's Plant Bar on Tuesday
July 3. The last time Fallon And Alan played at the Plant Bar, on
May 24 and supported by Des and Lio from Crashin', they drew a wild
and rockin' crowd of hipsters, tripsters and flipsters that included
Anita Pallenberg, Lenny
Kaye, Jaime Coon, Bob Gruen and Elizabeth Gregory, Ken Springfellow
from REM and a rare appearance in public by rock'n'roll enigma Seth
Nettles.
Every Tuesday in July Radio4 will throw their party at the Plant
Bar. The dynamic duo of Fallon And Alan - the Irish rock'n'roll
renegade and the maverick musicbizness mogul from Scotland, a real
pair of celts - have already spun together under the Radio4 banner
in Brooklyn and Detroit [photo]
as well as shaking Manhattan. Full information on all Radio4 Fallon
And Alan gigs in the USA and Japan.
Jingle
du Jour: Bobby Gillespie jingle
for BP Fallon's radio show on Today FM [94k] requires Flash
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May
2001
News Flash!
BP Fallon joins Radio4 in NYC
BP
Fallon continues his guest appearances with Alan McGee's Radio4
club when he joins Alan to deejay at Poptones
Presents Radio4 at the Plant Bar in the East Village in New York
on Sunday May 6. The address of the gig, which
rocks the house from 9pm to 4am, is 217 E 3rd Street between Avenues
B and C.
The dynamic duo of Fallon And Alan - the Irish rock'n'roll renegade
and the maverick musicbizness mogul from
Scotland who founded Creation Records, discovered Oasis and now
runs the Poptones label - have already spun
together under the Radio4 banner in Brooklyn and Detroit [photo].
Pop
into www.poptones.co.uk
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Brand
new boots and panties
Brand
New Boots And Panties was released in Britain and Ireland on
April 9 2001 on East
Central One Records. A tribute to the classic Ian Dury album
New Boots And Panties, it
features guest appearances by Ian Dury fans such as Paul McCartney,
Shane MacGowan,
Robbie Williams, Sinéad O'Connor and Madness. For tracklisting,
Peter Blake cover art
and BP Fallon's sleeve notes... touch this
dial.
Extract from story by John Hind, the Independent On Sunday
April 8 2001:
"Part of Ian would say 'What the fuck?'" says BP Fallon, who
promoted Dury to his Seventies
heights. "But a larger part would be chuffed silly. Anyone who
writes a pop song with the word
'clitoris' in it should obviously be applauded very loudly."
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