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December 2002
THE
DAMNED CAPTAIN JOINS DEATH DISC0!!!
 Captain
Sensible from punk pioneers The Damned joined the
DeathDisco Xmas Tour to play surprise DJ sets in Dublin
and Belfast. Wearing a kilt - over a leopardskin thong,
fact fans! - and his trademark red beret while addressing
the audiences through a megaphone which he waved about wildly,
Captain joined BP Fallon and Alan McGee on the
decks to spin such punk, garage and glam gems as The Adverts
[One Chord Wonders], The Human Beanz [Nobody But Me],
The Pretty Things [Big City], The Ruts [Babylon's
Burning], The Seeds [Pushin' Too Hard], Bowie
[Suffragette City], Sparks [This Town Ain't...], Roxy
Music [Do The Strand] and The Saints [I'm Stranded]
before climaxing with Jimi Hendrix [Fire].
Captain Sensible and BP Fallon first worked
together in 1976, when The Damned signed to Stiff
Records to find BP representing them as they released
the classic 45 New Rose - beating The Sex Pistols
and The Clash in the race for first new punk single.
To mark the twenty-sixth anniversary of the occasion, Mr Sensible
presented Mr Fallon with a framed signed photograph of Dave
Vanian.
Also joining the DeathDisco collective was New York
überbabe Jaime
Coon, briefly back in Ireland again to film her cameo
in the Shimmy Marcus movie Headrush. Immediately
on completing her part at Ardmore Studios, she ran away with
the circus for the DeathDisco parties in Cork, Dublin
and Belfast, spinning her beloved Ramones
plus dollops of Blondie,
Motorhead, Sex Pistols, Heartbreakers,
Velvet
Underground, Jerry
Lee Lewis, Wanda Jackson, Miss Kitten,
Peaches and The Sweet as well as shaking a tailfeather
or two to the dirty and sweet DeathDisco jungle rhythms.
The girl can't help it.
Photo: Captain Sensible and Miss Jaime Coon, DeathDiscoBelfast#1
by BPF.
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October 2002
 MO'
NEWS FLASHING!!!
Jaime Coon - Skin + Bones In Ireland - Photography by BP
Fallon
When New York UltraModel Jaime Coon first flew over
from America to DJ at DeathDiscoDublin, she and BPF
continued their photographic adventures together. During this
visit to Ireland, BP and JC drove around counties Wicklow,
Cork and Kerry to create their artwork, stopping or staying
wherever their fancies took them before rocking on again down
the yellow brick road...
Jaime
Coon - Skin + Bones In Ireland
>> September 2002
WONDERFUL
MADNESS!!!
Shane MacGowan DJed at Death Disco Dublin#11
for two hours!!!
 
Shane
MacGowan joined BP Fallon
at DeathDiscoDublin#11 in Eamonn Dorans, Temple Bar
on Sept 6 to DJ from 3.20am until 5.20am, opening with The
Skatalites reggae stomper Phoenix City with Shane toasting
over the track. Mr MacGowan went on to choose everything from
The Pistols [God Save The Queen] to Jerry Lee Lewis
[a particularly wild Whole Lotta Shakin' Goin' On live from
Hamburg in 1964], Gene Vincent with Eddie Cochran [Git
It], Junior Parker [Mystery Train], Ernie K Doe
[A Certain Girl], Aretha [Chain Of Fools], Arthur
Conley [Sweet Soul Music], Eddie Floyd [Knock On
Wood], The Doors [The Wasp (Texas Radio And The Big
Beat)], The Byrds [Chestnut Mare + Goin' Back], Dylan
[I Want You], Led Zeppelin [Babe I'm Gonna Leave You
+ Communication Breakdown] and The Pogues [Rain Street]
and Warren Smith [Pink Cadillac And A Black Moustache],
a rake of Elvis that included Little Sister + I'm Left,
You're Right, She's Gone, Sandy Denny with Fairport Convention
evocative with Who Knows Where The Time Goes, Tommy McLain
singing the poignant swamp country message Before I Grow Too
Old and Tom Rush telling it like it is with No Regrets.
Shane,
there on stage in his wheelchair at DDD#11, he was
brilliant. He'd choose the track and BP would spin
it, with Shane often announcing the song on mic or singing
over the track. Shane MacGowan is a lovely man, a good warm
soul, a special cat. We're lucky, very lucky, to have him
around. The memory of Shane in his wheelchair, ciggie in hand
and his drink nearby, raising the microphone to his lips and
joining Elvis to sing I Was The One will always be
with me. Thank you, Shane. We love you.
Death
Disco Dublin#13
DDD#13 was a lucky night! DDD fave DJs Thomas And Duncan
from Pugwash
gave us ev'rything from The Sweet [Ballroom Blitz]
to early Marc Bolan [Desdemona by John's Children]
to later Marc with T.Rex and Children Of The Revolution,
while Bolanites eagerly snapped up the prizes of Marc Bolan
& T.Rex: The Essential Collection greatest hits CD - with
its bonus DVD of Marc performing Jeepster, Ride A White Swan,
Deborah, Hot Love and Get It On on his 1977 tv show Marc -
and the creme de la creme, the 108-track 4CD box set Marc
Bolan & T.Rex: 20th Century Superstar. Hot Love!
 Making
their DDD DJ debut on this Bolan Night were Ollie
And Gavin from Turn,
who welcomed us to the jungle with Guns N' Roses and
The Pixies, before joining The Beatles on the
mic to sing harmonies to She's Leaving Home. Cool. Vibey guys,
lovin' their music, Gavin And Ollie.
BPF
gazed at the Marc Bolan videos and Born To Boogie on
the big screen while spinning ev'rything from Motorhead
thrashing God Save The Queen to the Pistols' dance
mix of God Save The Queen to John Lee Hooker with The
Doors doing Roadhouse Blues to the Primals with
Kate Moss singing Lee Hazlewood's Some Velvet
Morning. Lash in some Stoned Brown Sugar, Van & Them
urging us Baby Please Don't Go and BP's remix of The Kinks
You Really Got Me and another mad night explodes into legend...
Photo
of Gavin and Ollie by BPF using Fuji FinePix S602 Zoom
Death
Disco Dublin#12
ALAN MCGEE CONQUERS AGAIN!!!
Following an appearance on PhantomFM's Heavy Traffic
programme where they were interviewed by Cathal Carroll,
Fallon + Alan girded their loins for DDD#12.
Donaghmede mod-psycho combo The
Things - described in his stage intro by BP
as "the most vital new band in Ireland today" - suffered from
technical gremlins that weren't their fault. Sore throat or
not, lead singer Neil Moore threw himself into the
spirit of things and into the audience too. Much banging and
twanging from the band. Shite sound or not, afterward Mr McGee
was heard to say of The Things original True To
You, "That's a hit song".
 BP
played The Heartbreakers, Johnny Thunders, Stone Roses 10-minute
mix of Fool's Gold, Guns N' Roses, Led Zep... Mr McGee
kicked off with the original 7" Track Records single of The
Who performing Under My Thumb before racing onwards with
a rake of records from his own stables: Oasis [Rock'n'Roll
Star], The Hives [Supply and Demand + Main Offender
+ Hate To Say I Told You So], Primal Scream [the Chemicals
mix of Swastika Eyes], The Jesus And Mary Chain [Coast
To Coast].
As the frenzied audience reached out to touch him or shake
his hand, Alan went Stonewards, giving us a bunch of solid
rockers from Keef & Co before throwing in The Strokes
and BRMC and climaxing with Oasis and Live Forever.
Everyone went bonkers. Everywhere he went in Dublin - walking
down the street, at the DeathDisco gig, at the airport
- young people of all ages were coming up to Alan and saying
"Alan McGee, you changed my life".
Alan MCGee, for the music you have released over the
years, for the bands you have nurtured, for co-founding DeathDiscoDublin,
for your dynamite DJing and above all for being a wonderful
chap: we salute you.
A BIG DeathDiscoDublin THANX to Whelans for
hosting DDD#12!
Photo
of Alan McGee by BPF using Fuji FinePix S602 Zoom
 MO'
NEWS!!!
BPF joined The
D4 when the full-on New Zealand rockers returned triumphantly
to Ireland for two gigs in Whelans. The lads belted out classics
like Invader Ace, Rock'n'Roll Motherfucker and Johnny
Thunders Pirate Love while our resident party animal
played everything from Police and Thieves by Junior Murvin
to Some Velvet Morning sung by Kate
Moss on the new Primal Scream album Evil
Heat.
The
D4 @ Whelans first time around.
Photo by BPF using Canon Eos Elan
>> July 2002
WHAT THE PAPERS SAY
ABOUT BP:
 UNCUT
magazine July 2002
AND THE BEEP GOES ON - full-page feature on BPF by
Allan Jones.
Allan
Jones on BP: "At the time of which I'm writing, he's
the smartest, funniest, hippest cat I know. No wonder everybody
loves him."
Robert Plant on BP: "There's a lot of shit that goes
down in this business and there's a lot of mysterious characters
and deviants that want to be associated with a band like Led
Zeppelin. There are very few people we take to our hearts.
BP's one of them... he has a kind of gypsy charm. You can't
help loving him".
Allan Jones on BP leaving Marc Bolan: "Not knowing
how to say he was quitting, he wrote Bolan a song. It was
called It's Alright Marc (I'm Only Leaving)." More mad
tales - BPF being French-kissed by Bowie in Detroit,
playing tambourine with Led Zeppelin and almost sinking Zeppelin's
luxury jet Starship in mid-flight over America. "I took
a shower, and forgot to take the plug out, so the bedroom
flooded. And, you know, planes are a bit delicate at the best
of times, and this bedroom was really flooded... it
was like Venice in there. And the plane went a bit wobbly..."
 Evil
Heat night @ DDD#5 is the
official launch of Primal Scream's new album Evil
Heat - a whole bunch of Evil Heat albums will be
given away as prizes and there will be loops of the Primals'
greatest moments on the Big Screen linked to mega speakers!
If that wasn't enough, DJs are BP Fallon, Steve
Rapid from The Radiators From Space and none other than
The King Of The Bootleggers himself Tony James.
Tony sprung to underground infamy with The
London SS - the early punk group he formed with Mick Jones
- before creating Generation X with Billy Idol. He
then melded the sound of Giorgio Moroder, TRex and an echo-drenched
Elvis to create Sigue Sigue Sputnik.
Tony James now mixes different records together to make his
own personal mixes - which he plays when he DJs: John Lennon
+ The Clash, Elvis and BRMC, Leonard Cohen + The Jesus And
Mary Chain! A huge favourite at Death Disco in London,
this will be Tony James' first-ever DJ visit to Ireland.
Photo: Tony James + BP Fallon in Feb 1986 plotting DDD's Evil
Heat night on Friday July 26.
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>>June
2002
God bless Dee Dee
Ramone 1952 - 2002.
Rest in peace, brother.
If you see Dee Dee please give him my love
| BP Fallon
Remembers Joey Ramone
Joey's
50th Birthday Bash in NYC | Joey
and Dee Dee Ramone sock it to Russia [audio]
HOT STUFF!!! HOT STUFF!!! HOT STUFFF!!!
DEATH DISCO DUBLIN IS BACK!!! MANI + THE REVS TO DJ + RAMONES
TRIBUTE!!!
DeathDiscoDublin
returns with a double whammy, hosting a pre-Witnness party
+ the post-Iggy rave-up after the Pop's Olympia
concert! Among the star DJs are Mani + The
Revs plus Jaime Coon from New York with her
non-stop hour of Ramones mania! And just by being there
you can win the new Sex Pistols box set and nine Iggy CDs
 DeathDiscoDublin#3
@ Eamon Dorans in Temple Bar, Friday July 12th: pre-Witnness
party with DJs BP Fallon + The Revs + Dandelion + Ska
band The Gangsters + Jaime Coon [NYC] playing her non-stop
hour of Ramones!
Win the new Sex Pistols box set!
DeathDiscoDublin#4 @ Eamon Dorans in Temple
Bar, Monday July 15th: after-Iggy party with DJs
BP Fallon + Mani [Stone Roses/Primal Scream] + Simon F [Fuck
Off Or Dance]
Win nine Iggy CDs!
And at the request of the full-tilt brilliant New Zealand
rockers The D4, BP Fallon joined them to DJ at their
Irish debut in Whelans on Saturday June 22!
Says
BPF: "I'm crazy for the D4 album 6Twenty,
particularly the track Rock'n'Roll Motherfucker which
is a solid DDD favourite. The D4 gig was a rockin'
way to get vibed up for our upcoming DeathDiscoDublin
double whammy, which'll be wild.
"Mani - as well as being a lovely man and
a shit-hot bass player - is dynamite on the decks and is well
up for it - even ringing me during the ad breaks in the Ireland-Saudia
Arabia match!
"And The Revs, hot from the Irish Top Ten with
Tuesday Monday/Turning Japanese, it'll be great to hear
what they play. Plus the punk rock model Jaime Coon
is flying over from New York to spin a whole hour of Ramones
as her tribute to Dee Dee and Joey.
"And free Sex Pistols and Iggy CDs! Fuck me! Gabba gabba
fuckin' hey!"
Graphic [above] : Primals Bobby
Gillespie + Mani by BPF [funked up by
lib-lab]
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>>April
2002
 Death
Disco Rocks London!
Fallon + Alan + JB + Courtney Love shake a big one!
Courtney Love made a top-secret surprise visit to Alan
McGee's Death Disco club in London to join BP + McGee
+ Jim Barber on the punk music decks, causing mayhem from
the astounded fans inside and frustration from the frothing
paparazzi outside.
One minute playing the unreleased Nirvana track You Know You're
Right and the next minute shaking a tailfeather on the dance
floor with her heroine Anita
Pallenberg, Courtney delved into BP's box to spin everything
from BRMC [Whatever Happened To Our Rock'n'Roll] to The
Heartbreakers [Chinese Rocks] to NIN [Wish]. However the
disc that caused the biggest response from the rocking audience
- which included Bobby
Gillespie from Primal Scream and Terry Hall from the Specials
- was played by BP, The Hives [Hate To Say I Told You So],
with everybody going completely bananas.
"This is the best club night I've ever been involved
with!" Alan
McGee bubbled. "Everyone had a brilliant time and
the music was amazing! Courtney rocks and BP
played the toughest and loudest set - the MC5, Motorhead,
Ministry, the Primals, the Sonics doing Strychnine - that
I've heard him play so far"
After the gig, the limo containing BP and Courtney was pursued
through the early-morning streets of London by three carloads
of baying paparazzi until Miss Love stopped the car, got out
and said to the foaming snappers "If I let you take some
shots now, will you leave us alone?" A barrage of flashes
later, the paparazzi departed. Fallon and Love were last seen
stuffing their mouths in a low-rent all-night kebab joint
in Tottenham Court Road.
See BP Fallon's Courtney pix!!!
Death Disco at the Metro Club, Oxford Street, London
W1, every Thursday night 11pm - 3am.
BP
ON TV!
Our music sage appears on BBC's Play UK Channel, spouting
his words of wisdom on a whole rake of diverse artists who
include U2 [Friday May 17], Madonna [Friday
May 24], Bob Marley [Friday June 14], Prince
[Friday June 28] and Nirvana [Friday July 12]. The
programmes are screened on Fridays at 11.10pm.
MORE BPTV!
BP Fallon also appeared in BBC's two-night Punk Special on
BBC Play UK on June 3 + 4.
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>>March
2002
STOP
THE LIGHTS! BP Fallon live in London!
King Boogaloo plays a one-off dj gig in London when he spins
on Thursday March 21 at Alan McGee's club Death Disco,
which takes place from 11pm until 3am at the Metro Club,
Oxford Street, London W1 [opposite the Virgin Megastore].
BP ON TV!
Our music sage appears on BBC's newly-launched Digital Arts
Channel, spouting his words of wisdom on a whole rake of diverse
artists who include U2 [Friday May 17], Madonna
[Friday May 24], Bob Marley [Friday June 14], Prince
[Friday June 28] and Nirvana [Friday July 12]. The
programmes are screened on Fridays at 11.10pm.
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