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2003 ARCHIVE

December 2003

DEATH DISCO ROCKS USA!!!
Death Disco's first-ever American gig at Seattle's renowned Chop Suey venue the day after Christmas was a roaring success, with DJs BP Fallon and Jaime Coon plus Seattle spinners Libby Eon [The Rock Of Ages], Miss Margie [French 75] and Colby [Kiss My Ass] driving the delirious dancing audience into a foaming frenzy. A triumphant night of "getting the rock kids onto the dancefloor" as Seattle paper The Stranger reported.

Speaking from New York where he's setting up more Death Disco USA dates, Fallon says "Seattle's not a town that takes its music lightly - witness 'Louie Louie', Jimi Hendrix and Kurt Cobain - so it's gratifying to be received so fantastically from the off. Mindblowing, really".



The Seattle date was immediately followed by three more Death Discos in Ireland, with the movie Headrush being screened to open the wild shows in Galway and Derry and the reclusive DJ Donal Dineen - known for generally avoiding the public spotlight - making a surprise appearance to join Fallon and Coon behind the decks at Whelans in Dublin.

"Donal's set was a pumpin' gas" says BP, all vibed. "He played an amazing version of Purple Haze by Johnny Jones And The King Casuals and a jumpin' Van Morrison mix by The Street Choir titled Workin'. Musically, Donal's recognised as being a beautifully chill cat but at DD DD rocked. Dancing with Mr D, indeed!"

Photos: BPF + JC by Michael Doucet/JC by BPF/Donal Dineen + JC by BPF, all taken using Fuji Finepix S602Zoom

DEATH DISCO SALUTES:
BRMC/MC5/JAMC/VU/B12/DAF/NIN/Primals/Prunes/PIL/PSG/Sonics/Stones/Stooges/Sputnik/Hives
Motorhead/Ministry/Saints/Vines/GenX/Death In Vegas/Ramones/Radiators/Roky/Rats/Ruts/Clash
Undertones/Kraftwerk/Daft Punk/New York Dolls/Pistols/Led Zep/TRex/Damned/NWA/Nips/Nirvana
White Stripes/Soulwax/SLF/D4/Datsuns/Ziggy/Pogues/Phillo/Elvis/Toilets/Chemicals/Strokes...

NEWSFLASH!!!
DONAL DINEEN JOINS DEATH DISCO THIS SUNDAY!
The brilliant DJ Donal Dineen joins BPF + Jaime Coon at Death Disco this Sunday Jan 4 in Dublin at Whelans!
In a rare coup, Donal will spin a rockin' set that'll knock yer socks off!
The show starts at 10.30. Here comes the night!

DEATH DISCO OPENS IN AMERICA, NEW IRISH GIGS TOO!!!
SEE HEADRUSH AT DEATH DISCO!!!

Death Disco's first-ever US gig takes place at Seattle's famed Chop Suey club on Friday Dec 26 - the day after Christmas! Immediately after their West Coast of America opening, DJs BP Fallon and Jaime Coon jump into the Death Disco jet to whizz over to Ireland to rock it out at Derry Sandinos on Sunday Dec 28. The first DD shows of the New Year with BPF and Miss Coon will be at Galway Bar Cuba [Sat Jan 3] and Dublin Whelans [Sun Jan 4].

In a twist typical of DD's slogan 'The Freedom To Rock' - ie expect the unexpected - the drugs-gangsters-cops-and-love comedy caper Headrush will be exclusively screened at the gigs in Galway and Derry. Headrush - which stars Steven Berkoff as the psychotic coke dealer The Uncle, with BP as the naked drug-dealing guru Blowback and Jaime as his equally-naked girlfriend - was voted second best film after Colin Farrell's Intermission at the Galway Film Fleadh and closed Derry's Foyle Film Festival to huge critical acclaim. The movie is not yet on release in Irish cinemas.

Said Fallon from New York, where with Jaime Coon he's filming in the movie Only The Lonely, "I'm really chuffed we'll be showing Headrush. People want to see it and we're making it possible. It's a fucking hilarious movie and it rocks LAMF and as the film finishes we'll be whipping away the chairs and rocking straight into Death Disco". Cool or what?!

As well as Fallon and Coon, the Dublin Whelans gig will feature a secret surprise guest DJ.
See! HEADRUSH: THE PHOTOGRAPHS
Visit the Headrush website!
Photo: Fallon + Coon at Joey Ramone Place, East Village, NYC by Laurie Stalter using Fuji Finepix S602Zoom

Make a date with Death Disco:
Seattle - Chop Suey Fri Dec 26
Derry - Sandinos Sun Dec 28
Galway - Bar Cuba Sat Jan 3
Dublin- Whelans Sun Jan 4

>>> REWIND! BP BOWIE + STONES SHOWS TO BE BROADCAST AGAIN! <<<
Due to unprecedented public response, BP's brilliant Bowie programme is being aired again
and his stupendous Stones outing receives its third broadcast on TodayFM!

BP Fallon Cuts Up David Bowie
TodayFM [100-102FM] Sun Dec 28 2003 11pm - 1am GMT + live on the net
BP Fallon Gets Stoned!
TodayFM [100-102FM] Thurs Jan 1 2004 5pm - 7pm GMT + live on the net
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BPF's NEW YEAR'S EVE WANG DANG DOODLE ON TODAYFM!!!

For the forth year running, BPF mans the TodayFM turntables to bring us into the New Year with his sonic boogaloo. The five-hour rockathon will include a tribute to Johnny Cash and expect lashings of BP's fave album of the year Fatherfucker by Peaches and tracks by Chicks On Speed, The Raveonettes, Pure Rubbish and Afrika Bombaataa - plus some of BP's celebrated cut-ups of Bowie and the Stones. As we hit 2004 the programme will count down to Jimi Hendrix playing Auld Lang Syne.

BP Fallon's Wang Dang Doodle Into 2004
TodayFM [100-102FM] and live on the net

New Year's Eve Dec 31 2003 at 8pm till 1am GMT New Year's Day Jan 1 2004
Photo of BPF by Jaime Coon using Fuji Finepix S602Zoom

November 2003

BPF IN NEW JOHN LENNON DVD!

"God", says BP Fallon, laughing, "if my past continues to catch up with me at this speed, I'll be sixteen soon!" Our man's DVD-fest already includes appearing in Led Zeppelin's DVD. Pictured here from the just-released John Lennon DVD Lennon Legend: The Very Best Of John Lennon is BPF miming bass guitar on Instant Karma with John Lennon & The Plastic Ono Band in 1970.

More pix & details of John & Yoko & BP & chums!




HOW THE WEST WAS WON
BPF in the new Led Zeppelin DVD!

Led Zeppelin publicist BP Fallon + guitar god Jimmy Page eight miles high on Zeppelin's private plane Starship, USA 1973, from the best-selling new LZ 2-DVD set.

BPF worked with Led Zeppelin from 1972 on and off until the band ended in 1979 with the death of drummer John Bonham.

"Beep and Jimmy were very much alike" says Silverhead singer Michael Des Barres in the generally ghastly LZ biography Hammer Of The Gods.

"They were both visionary imps. And they were in love with what I was in love with in rock'n'roll, which was the atmosphere of it all. The only really important thing was the right earring, the right album cover, and looking right getting off the plane and climbing out of the limo. That, and being the stonedest person in the room. The vibe was everything. And it still is."

During one mad American tour vibemaster BP appointed himself Zeppelin's Entertainments Manager. "My job was to decide what went on after the concerts" says Fallon. "What went on? Ask Jimmy..."

Hear Robert Plant Vs BPF on <<<bpf. radio>>>
Robert spills the beans on Zeppelin's Dormant Press Agent... and the nubiles... <<<bpf. radio>>> programme 2

BPF CUTS UP DB!!!
BP FALLON CUTS UP DAVID BOWIE
TodayFM Sunday Nov 23 2003 7pm - 9pm GMT and live on the net


To mark David Bowie's Reality Tour, BP tackles DB in William Burroughs style by chopping up Bowie's records and other people's too and sticking them back together again - sorta. As well as cameos by Marc Bolan, Marilyn Monroe and Kraftwerk, among the mad treats are our David singing Sorrow with The Beatles, China Girl with Iggy, All The Young Dudes with Mott The Hoople, The Man Who Sold The World with Nirvana and Lulu and The Jean Genie with an intro by The Sweet. Plus! The Small Faces pop up in Suffragette City and the BP Fix of Heroes/Helden with DB and Blondie imports the crazed Robert Fripp guitar solo from Eno's Baby's On Fire.

Is nothing sacred?

"Now the workers have struck for fame
cos Lennon's on sale again"

Johnny Cash has left the building.
Feb 26 1932 - Sept 12 2003.
Rest In Peace, Johnny and June.
"I still miss someone"

BP FALLON STONED - TWICE!!!
BP Fallon Gets Stoned! TodayFM Sun Sept 7 at 7pm and - by huge public demand - repeated on Thurs Sept 11 at midnight

To celebrate The Rolling Stones playing in Dublin at The Point on Sept 9 and 11, BP Fallon - who has DJed on solo tours by Keith Richards [USA 1993] and Ronnie Wood [Ireland and England 2001] - invaded TodayFM to play two hours of Stones records non-stop. The show was broadcast globally on the net. Included in the cut-up mix of rock'n'roll, blues, psychedelia, gospel, country and reggae were solo cuts by Keith, Mick and Ronnie. Says our enigmatic man behind the needle: "The trick is in the tracks". Among the treats up BP's arm was the BPF Fix of Marianne Faithfull and The Stones doing Sister Morphine together, plus Stones flashes too by Aretha, Gram Parsons, Howlin' Wolf, Muddy Waters, Devo and Bowie.


Photos: BP + Ronnie [LA 1992] Keith + BP [NYC 1993]

See the Not For Beginners shots of Ronnie, Slash, Kate Moss and Bobby Gillespie!
DEATH DISCO HITS WATERFORD!!!

In a rapid search and destroy mission, Death Disco shakes it at The Forum in Waterford this Friday Sept 12! This is the first Death Disco in Ireland since the riotous night at Death Disco Cork at The Half Moon. Joining BP Fallon behind the decks for this party of full-on maximum rock'n'roll is BPM Records viber Francis Power. Among BP's faves, expect to hear cuts from Peaches' new album Fatherfucker plus Electric Six and The Rulers Of The Planet.
Death Disco Waterford @ The Forum this Friday Sept 12!

August 2003

MAGIC AND MADNESS AT DEATH DISCO CORK!!!

Death Disco Cork at The Half Moon was one of the craziest and best DD parties so far! Great live music from Leanne Harte and Stanley Super 800, brilliant new mash-up mixes from Tony James, a fabulously full-on audience reacting to BP Fallon's frolics with the bouncers... ah, marvellously mental to the max!
Full story...

Photo of Tony James by BPF using Fuji Finepix S602Zoom

DEATH DISCO IN SONG!!! The recent Libertines single celebrates Death Disco in the lyrics! "When they played that song at the Death Disco It started fast and ends so slow And all the time it reminded me of you" The Libertines - Don't Look Back Into The Sun [Rough Trade Records]

July 2003

HAVANA AFFAIR!!!
BPF + Huey get their decks out!!!

BP Fallon was joined by Huey Morgan of The Fun Lovin' Criminals to DJ at the Headrush party in Galway. Immediately after the rousing World Premier of the Shimmy Marcus film at the Galway Film Festival in The Town Hall Theatre, cast and chums repaired to Cuba for the wild shindig - also open to the public - where BP got on the good foot with some sweet soul music: JB [Sex Machine], Betty Wright [Clean Up Woman], Lee Dorsey [Ride Your Pony], Rosko Gordon [Just A Little Bit], Etta James [Tell Mama] plus a bunch of steaming Atlantic grooves with Solomon, Aretha, Otis, Arthur Conley, Wilson Picket and Sam & Dave. Ooh mah soul!

Pictured above: BP Fallon as Blowback + Huey Morgan as The Yank, from the movie Headrush

New Yorker Huey had been telling BP 'bout his pilgrimages as a schoolkid to the NYC punk mecca CBGBs, how it had changed his life. Behind the decks the tattooed love man Mr Morgan continued the yarn - through the records that turned him on to music, groundbreakers like The Ramones [I Wanna Be Sedated], T Rex [21st Century Boy], The MC5 [Kick Out The Jams], The Sex Pistols [New York] followed perfectly by the equally vitriolic retort to Rotten's rantings by Johnny Thunders [London Boys - directed at the 1978 Thunders sessions by Johnny's manager BP Fallon who cast Phil Lynott into the potion with Pistols Steve Jones and Paul Cook]. Grinning quietly to himself, Huey whacked on Motorhead [Ace Of Spades], Blondie [Rapture - the record that broke rap wide open] and NY poet Jim Carroll [People Who Died]. Live life - you won't have it when you're dead. To be on a roll and not to rock? A fucking splendid night on the west coast of Ireland by the shores of the Atlantic...

Both BP and Huey appear in Headrush. BP plays the weed and wisdom dispensing guru Blowback. Huey plays the psychotic coke-dealing cross-dresser The Yank, the high-heel-shoe-licking tantrum queen who gets upset when people get shot on his Amsterdam barge because it messes up the carpet.

Photo: BPF + Huey playing with their decks by Andrew Downes/Galway Film Festival. Thanks to Cuba + David Coyne

See! HEADRUSH: THE PHOTOGRAPHS
Visit the Headrush website!

JAIME COON: THE UNSEEN FOOTAGE!!!

BP FALLON MOVIE STAR!!!

BP Fallon appears in the new movie Headrush, playing the weed-and-wisdom drug-dealing sage Blowback. The film is written and directed by the award-winning Shimmy Marcus, who describes the drugs and gangsters comedy caper as "Trainspotting meets Withnail And I crossed with The Lavender Hill Mob". Also in Headrush are Steven Berkoff, Huey Morgan of The Fun Lovin' Criminals, Gavin Kelty, Wuzza Conlon, Laura Pyper and Tom Hickey. Completing the cast in a cameo as Blowback's girlfriend is New York supermodel Jaime Coon.

The last time BP appeared on the big screen was in 1966 as an extra in Antonioni's classic 'Swinging London' film Blow Up, which starred non-extras David Hemmings, Vanessa Redgrave and the first full-frontal nudity in an overground British film, courtesy of one Jane Birkin. BP appears in the Ricky Tick Club scene, grooving to The Yardbirds - featuring guitarists Jeff Beck and Jimmy Page - playing Stroll On. "Ten pounds a day to look stoned and listen to amazing rock'n'roll twanging" is how BP remembers it.

Headrush was premiered at The Galway Film Festival on Sat July 12
Photo: Womb With A View - BP Fallon as Blowback by Lee Gallagher

See more stills from the set of Headrush!
Visit the Headrush website!

THE HEADRUSH WORLD PREMIER: TOWN HALL THEATRE, GALWAY THIS SAT JULY 12 @ 11pm
THE HEADRUSH PARTY WITH DJs BPF + HUEY MORGAN: CUBA, GALWAY, IMMEDIATELY AFTER THE MOVIE ENDS

June 2003

DEATH DISCO HELPS RAISE £51,000 FOR IRAQ

The Death Disco posse - starring DJs BP Fallon + Kevin Rowland + Tony James - got London jumping so much at The GOAL Ball For Iraqi Famine Relief that they've already been asked to play again at the charity event next year.

The enigmatic Mr Dexy's Midnight Runners himself Kevin Rowland got the ball rolling with the likes of Oddysey and Roxy Music's Virginia Plain before Tony James seized the decks with his amazing cut-up mixes that included the masterful and mesmerising White Storm - the explosive TJ/Penelope Pecher creation that wraps together Dolly Parton doing Jolene, The Doors, Wu Tang Clan and The White Stripes!

Photo: DD DJs Tony James + Kevin Rowland @ The GOAL Ball.
Photo by BPF using Fuji Finepix S602 Zoom

BPF then took over the turntables to rock it out with The Raveonettes, Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Johnny Thunders, The Hellacopters, Flaming Sideburns, Elvis and Joan Jett!

After dinner and before Death Disco had the joint shaking... under the watchful eyes of GOAL CEO John O'Shea, the young high-flying bankers, lawyers and brokers from A&L Goodbody's, Merrill Lynch and Morgan Stanley - all black-tie and gorgeous evening-dressed dates - they upped the ante by bidding in the GOAL auction. With the items being displayed by former Irish rugby player Hugo McNeill, tennis-players Pat Cash and Peter Fleming and actor David Soul, a t-shirt signed by football legend Pele raised £7,000 while A Drink With Shane MacGowan fetched a very healthy £1,100!

A brilliant night for an imperative cause - make a donation to GOAL

Photo: No plane, no gain: BPF heads over to GOAL.
Photo by chance

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DEATH DISCO TAKES EUROPE BY STORM!!!

Death Disco's appearance at The Roskilde Festival in Denmark was a total triumph and the second-ever DD party in Europe - in Barcelona - was a complete sellout.

In one loud swoop DD knocked down the gates of Europe with their stirring 90-minute set at Roskilde, where on the final night 70,000 fans from all over the continent had gathered to go wild to the Nordic queen Björk and the kings of the Celts Fallon and Alan.

Taking the stage after Massive Attack, Alan McGee went straight for the jugular with New Order's Blue Monday and the audience - already mesmerised by Björk and chilled-out by Massive - went mad for it. Everyone knew Death Disco was in business, BP and McGee working the enormous stage like benign rock'n'roll-fuelled stormtroopers. And for as far as the eye could see, lit up in mad groups by the wandering lights, the audience was rocking like maniacs, dancing crazily and watching BP and Alan's grinning faces projected live ten stories high on each side of the stage.

For his opening noisebomb BP Fallon jumped on top of the DJ table and blasted Roskilde with the Joan Jett basher I Love Rock'n'Roll, whizzing the faders up and down and having the whole huge field singing along to Miss Jett and each other. What a rush! The Beep was off! He wacked 'em with Primals and Iggy, shredded 'em with Motorhead, dropped Abba's Dancing Queen in between T Rex and The Kinks, tore at their hearts with Nirvana, whizzed them to Mars and beyond with Led Zeppelin and then brought the rockin' party home to the glorious explosion of BRMC and Whatever Happened To Our Rock'n'Roll.

What a triumph! When Alan got in the cab to the airport the next day, the first thing the driver said was "Everyone's talking about you guys last night!"

Thermograph [above]: They had too much too dream last night - Fallon and Alan conquer Roskilde

BP Fallon disappeared to Christiania - where he was constantly spotted and congratulated by Roskilde Death Disco fans - before meeting up with Alan McGee in Spain. There at The Mond Club in beautiful Barcelona our Dynamic Duo got the sold-out crowd shakin' a tailfeather or two. Or three, or four... Another hot Death Disco night!

Fallon stayed in Barcelona to pay homage to The King Of Rock'n'Soul Solomon Burke. BP first saw Soloman in 1966 at The Marquee Club in London and they've kept in touch ever since - BP even visiting Bishop Burke at his church in LA. In Barcelona, Solomon Burke was brilliant as always, that deep soulful voice testifying with power and potency and bringing tears of joy to the eyes of an Irish DJ.



After The Bishop, Miss Kitten's jumpin' electroclash gig was only a few mieows away from another rare BPF hero: Gaudi. The surreal architect's cathedral La Sagrada Familia was visited by fan Fallon, who says excitedly "Gaudi's phantasmagorical work, the shapes he uses, the material he chooses, is like Dali in it's freedom of imagination and expression - they've both been French-kissed by God".

Pictured above: "There will be peace in the valley some day": Solomon Burke lifts Barcelona even higher!
Photos by BPF and Half Nelson using Fuji Finepix S602Zoom

DEATH DISCO FOR EUROPE!!!
Next stop Barcelona!

Following Death Disco's triumphant appearance at the Roskilde Festival in Denmark last week the mighty duo of Fallon + Alan move up another gear and head for Barcelona on Fri July 4 where they play The Mond Club. "I DJed there a few years ago and it was mental" says Mr McGee, adding "This time with BP and me doing our first Death Disco in Spain I'm sure it'll be completely crazy". "Excellent!" says Mr Fallon.

Death Disco is gearing up for its first-ever invasion of Europe. First target is Denmark's mega Roskilde Festival on Sun June 29, where DD DJs BP Fallon + Alan McGee will be playing to 70,000 happy lunatics. Sharing the Roskilde bill with Fallon + Alan are Björk, The Raveonettes, Asian Dub Foundation, The Datsuns, Wire, The Hellacopters, QOTSA and Blur. "Something tells me we're in for a mad one!" observes BP.

May 2003

Noel Redding 1945 - 2003 Rest in Peace.

BP FALLON ON NOEL REDDING

Noel Redding was a real one, a lovely man and a tremendous friend. His life was celebrated in his adapted home of Clonakilty in West Cork by the townspeople who loved him so well, with emotional sessions in the De Barras pub where Noel played every Friday night for the last thirty years when not on the road. Noel's coffin was carried through the streets of Clonakilty before a very moving service at St James Church in Ardfield near Noel's house. The following morning seven cars escorted Noel's hearse from Clonakilty to the cremation in Dublin, with two police outriders leading the cortege the last twenty miles in a wonderful gesture of respect. As I said during my talk at St James Church, Noel's happily kicking back now and saying "Hey, this is how you play it, Jimi!"

Photos by BPF: Noel en route to rehearsals with Jimi.
Noel and Jaime Coon in Clonakilty, June 2002.

DEATH DISCO ROCKS SCOTLAND AGAIN!!!

The mighty melange of Alan McGee and BP Fallon hit eleven on the vibometer on their latest DeathDisco rampage through Scotland. Our DJ duo of McGee & BP - supported by top Glaswegian spinner Tam Coyle - shook it up for the first time ever at DeathDiscoDundee#1 and DeathDiscoAberdeen#1, while the underpublicised DeathDiscoEdinburgh#2 threw up a solid hardcore audience.



It all came to a head at DeathDiscoGlasgow#3. Upstairs at The Barfly, Tam Coyle did his rock'n'roll foreplay before Alan McGee hit the DeathDisco stage downstairs in the dungeon, driving the dancers wild with The Dandy Warhols, the Primals, My Bloody Valentine, The Smiths and Blur before the whole subterranean cellar erupted to Oasis doing Supersonic and McGee dancing around the decks, fist in air and smile on face. The place just went crazy, the frenzied DeathDiscoers reaching out for their hero. Mental, really. And fucking great.

BP Fallon followed Alan and the whole damn joint went even more bonkers as Fallon lashed out with BRMC, The Kinks, a special BPF mix of Them, The Doors, Jimi Hendrix and The Patti Smith Group all joined at the hip doing Gloria, plus The Yeah Yeah Yeahs and The White Stripes. Alan McGee at this point was at the back of the club talking to The Coral and all he could see on the stage was BP surrounded by stage-invading dancers, BP punching the air in jubilation.

Alan joined Fallon and fans on stage for the finale.

There's something very special about a McGee and BP show, the way the energy level rises to the max, the way that everyone has a big fat smile on their face as the music massages, the way these two unique DJs joke and josh with each other as they do their magic with music. Everybody at the DeathDiscoGlasgow#3 party was taken by the spirit, jumping and shaking and grinning and laughing as Joy Division lifted with Love Will Tear Us Apart. What a way to go...

Photos: BPF In The Tunnel Of Love | Alan & Fallon & Fans on stage @ DeathDiscoGlasgow#3 | Alan McGee On The Stairway To Heaven - Photos by Barney & Tam Coyle & BPF using Fuji Finepix S602Zoom

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DeathDiscoLondon: EVERY WEDNESDAY @ The Notting Hill Arts Club!!!

DEATH DISCO FOR IRAQ!!!

Death Disco plays at The GOAL Ball For Iraqi Famine Relief in London at The Brewery in The Barbican on Sat June 14. The DD DJs at this black-tie charity event are BP Fallon + Shane MacGowan + Kevin Rowland + Tony James. "What a good vibe!" notes BP, explaining "Having fun to raise money for a vital cause - what a great privilege..."


April 2003

MAKE A DATE WITH DEATH DISCO!!!
New Scottish gigs by DJs BP Fallon + Alan McGee!!!

THURS May 1 DeathDiscoAberdeen#1 @ The Lemon Tree

FRI May 2 DeathDiscoGlasgow#3 @ The Barfly

SAT May 3 DeathDiscoDundee#1 @ The Reading Rooms

SUN May 4 DeathDiscoEdinburgh#2 @ The Attic At The Venue

AND! EVERY WEDNESDAY!
DeathDiscoLondon @ The Notting Hill Arts Club!

DD DJs Alan McGee + BP Fallon - Photo by Roger Woolman

Mar 2003

AN AUDIENCE WITH THE POPE!
SHANE SHAKES IT AT DeathDiscoDublin#16!

Shane MacGowan took to the DD DJ decks for the third time with a storming set at DeathDiscoDublin#16. Looking alarmingly fresh-faced and healthy, Shane opened his set with Margaret Barry and Tom Waits, before pumping it with The Clash.

"I like DJing" Shane noted afterwards, "because I like, like, Hendrix and Elvis and I can't do that in my bands, know what I mean?"
Yes, we do. Take a bow, Mr MacGowan...


Shane DJs and signs autographs @ DDD#16 - Photo by BPF using Fuji FinePix S602Z

Some of Shane's DDD#16 songs:
Clash: What's My Name
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds: The Mercy Seat
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds: Nobody's Baby Now
Dr John: Walk On Gilded Splinters
Frank Quinn: The Wexford Chorus
Clash: Straight To Hell
Hank Williams: Lost Highway
Jacque Brel: La Quete
Bobby Sands: The Rhythm Of Time [recitation with music by Gerry McGrogan]
Bob & Marcia: Young, Gifted And Black
And Shane also spinned The Town I Loved So Well, the unreleased track by Lancaster County Prison with Shane singing. Beautiful.

Read all about Shane MacGowan at DeathDiscoBelfast#2 and DeathDiscoDublin#11!

DeathDisco DJs BP Fallon and Shane MacGowan, Jaime Coon, Tony James

DEATH DISCO ALL OVER THE PLACE!!!
DeathDisco paused for breath after its wildest series of parties so far! Kicking off mightily with DJs BPF + Stuart Clarke + Shane MacGowan @ DeathDiscoDublin#16, the posse boogied onwards with DJs BPF + Tony James @ DeathDiscoDerry#2, DJs BPF + Danny Watson @ DeathDiscoLondon, then DJs BPF + Tony James + Jarvis Cocker - who got the house jumpin' with wild Cajun music and Status Quo's regettably suitable We're In The Army Now - in the DeathDisco room at Fabric's CND Benefit in London.

Next: DJs BPF + Tony James plus Jaime Coon - who jetted in specially from New York! - rocked the joints at DeathDiscoGalway#2, DeathDiscoDublin#17 and DeathDiscoLimerick#1 before shakin' it up @ DeathDiscoLondon with DJs Danny Watson + Harry. 26 planes in 20 days and a whole lotta maximum rock'n'roll. Whew!


DD DJs Tony James + BP Fallon + Jaime Coon, JC + TJ + BPF, Harry + Danny Watson
Photos by Penelope Pecher + BPF using Fuji FinePix S602Zoom

A warm DD shout-out to all at Voodoo in Dublin including Dermot Doran, Eddie, soundman Mark + Tom O'Shea the Shane MacGowan sandwich-board man; Lorna Akroyd, Paul Kavanagh + Brian @ Derry's Nerve Centre; Mary Grealish, Jane Doe + Ed Kenehan @ Cuba in Galway. And Valerie Dolan, Mike + Aine @ Dolan's, Limerick. Plus! Sean + Steve @ Fabric and David, Dom + André @ The Notting Hill Arts Club, London.

Full volume too to Jon Richards @ Galway Bay FM, Simon @ Dublin's Phantom FM and Mr Spring on RTE 2FM's anarchic The Firing Squad - for interviewing the DD DJs live on the air. "The most surreal live radio experience I've ever experienced" said a delighted Tony James after the Mr Spring broadcast.

Check out DeathDiscoDublin#17 story + pix on showbizireland.com

JAIME COON
FEAR & LOATHING IN LONDON!!!

The Jaime Coon London Sessions - already referred to as Fear Of Clothing In London - is presented here for the very first time.

Shot by BP Fallon at The Boogaloo Bar & Juke Joint in Highgate, this is Jaime's most rockin' set of images yet - with Miss Coon sporting the one-hundred-and-twenty-years old green-velvet-with-gold-embroidery waistcoat last worn by Mr Fallon during Led Zeppelin's fabled 1973 USA tour. "God, if that waistcoat could talk!" says BP. "What do you mean if?" says Jaime.

TONY JAMES GOES EVEN MORE MEGA!
MINDS BLOWN AT DeathDiscoDerry#2!

Tony James' set at DeathDiscoDerry#2 was genuinely amazing - his mash-up mixes are ASTOUNDING and his unreleased new music with Mick Jones which he debuted is BRILLIANT! His set list DeathDiscoDerry#2 included these TJ mash-up mixes:

"Because I Wanna Revolution"... featuring MC5, Hives, Clash.
"Cold turkey Is No Fun"... featuring John Lennon Vs Stooges, Eddie Cochran, Salt N Peppa, Cocaine.
"Teenage Cows"... Undertones go Underworld with Streets, Ruts.
"Lil Devil Head"... The Cult play Kylie.
"Born To Tha Modern Age"... Strokes with Roxy Music, Steppenwolf, Bowie.
"Shiney Anarchy"... Pistols Vs Shiney Disco Balls.
"War! What Is It Good For?"... 50 Cent featuring Ozzy and Edwin Starr and Hendrix.
"Come Alone Cherie"... Suicide featuring Beatles' Come Together/Helter Skelter and Tweet.
"Dancing With Rock'n'Roll"... Gen X and Eddie Cochran featuring Wyclef.
"It's All Punk Rock Baby..." BMRC featuring Johnny Thunders with Hearbreakers, Gen X, Cramps and Zep.
"I Give You Hell Fire"... Chemical Bros, Prodigy, Iggy.

PLUS! NEW TRACKS BY MICK JONES AND TONY JAMES!
"Why Do Men Fight?" Mick Jones/Tony James featuring Stones, Peter Green's Fleetwood Mac, Slade - Hear it streamed from the Poptones website!
"Let's Make Life" Mick Jones/Tony James featuring Chicago, Guns N' Roses, Leonard Cohen.
"Yes I Can" Mick Jones/Tony James featuring Sinatra/MC5


TJ @ DDDerry#2 - Photo by BPF using Fuji FinePix S602Z

MAKE A DATE WITH DEATH DISCO!!!

THURS March 27 - DeathDiscoGalway#2
Cuba, Eyre Square, Galway with DJs BPF + TONY JAMES + JAIME COON

FRI March 28 - DeathDiscoDublin#17
Voodoo, 39 Arran Quay, Dublin 7 with DJs BPF + TONY JAMES + JAIME COON

SAT March 29 - DeathDiscoLimerick#1
Dolan's Warehouse, 3/4 Dock Road, Limerick with DJs BPF + TONY JAMES + JAIME COON

AND MORE!
TONY JAMES RETURNS !!! DEATH DISCO WORLD PREMIER CONTINUES!!!
Tony James - mainman of Generation X and Sigue Sigue Sputnik - is giving the first-ever spins to the new music he's making with ex Clash man Mick Jones as he tours Ireland with DeathDisco. Tony - titled King Of The Bootleg DJs for his wild mash-up mixes - joins DeathDisco avatar BP Fallon to DJ at DeathDiscoGalway#2 at Cuba [March 27], DeathDiscoDublin#17 at Voodoo [March 28] and DeathDiscoLimerick#1 at Dolan's Warehouse [March 29].

Says BP Fallon: "I've been trying to get Tony James back to DJ since his brilliant set at DeathDiscoDublin#5 last summer - this man's mixes are mindblowing... and they rock like mothers!"

New York überbabe Jaime Coon flies in to DJ and shake a tailfeather with BPF and Tony James in Galway, Dublin and Limerick!

Says Tony James: "It's a mad mad mad mad digital world... from 70s punk rock to 21st century punk rock... every track reworked into the Matrix Dance Groove... it's much more exciting than just being a DJ... it's one of the most, most exciting things I've ever done. When I first started playing my bootleg mash-ups at DeathDiscoDublin last summer with BP Fallon, you could feel the joy - a palpable rush from the audience hearing songs they knew and loved and hitting the floor, dancing."
>> The Tony James Story

THURS March 20 - DeathDiscoLondon CND Anti War Gig
Fabric, 77a Charterhouse Street, London EC1 with DJs BPF + DANNY WATSON + SECRET SURPRISE GUESTS!!!

SHANE MACGOWAN IS BACK!!!
THE ST PATRICK'S DAY WEEKEND STARTS HERE!!!
The Coolest Man In Ireland Shane MacGowan returns to the Death Disco decks to DJ at DeathDiscoDublin#16 this Friday March 14! The venue is Voodoo, 39 Arran Quay, Dublin 7 and the Death Disco party kicks off immediately after Shane's Olympia concert with The Popes. The last time he DJed at Death Disco - in Belfast [see below] - Mr MacGowan led the audience in singing along to Val Doonican's Walk Tall. What a man!

Feb 2003

DEATH DISCO: WE TAKE YOU HIGHER!!!
DeathDisco has just done five dates in Ireland and Scotland, four of them brilliant and one of them... well, okay.


BPF and Shane MacGowan at DeathDiscoBelfast#2
Photos by Jaime Coon using Fuji FinePix S602 Zoom


DeathDiscoEdinburgh#1 was fun but it wasn't mental.
DeathDiscoGlasgow#2 with BP Fallon and Alan McGee was a crazed party at The Barfly to a raving sold-out crowd who - having already shaken their booty to Tam Coyle's DJ foreplay - invaded the stage to dance crazily around the decks, watched benignly by The Ramones in the DeathDisco backdrop. Such mad fun, everybody rockin'.

DeathDiscoGalway#1 at Cuba was uplifting and amazing. A dose of chicken pox put Alan McGee under house arrest in London by his doctor for all the Irish dates, and Shane MacGowan was prevented from DJing in Galway by snowstorms at London airport. Nonetheless, BPF and - hot in from New York again - Miss Jaime Coon were met by a rock'n'rollin', jumpin', moovin' an' a-groovin' Galway audience who loved it. Watch this space for DeathDiscoGalway#2!

DeathDiscoDublin#15 at Whelans opened with snazzy Jon Averill behind the decks, followed by a stompin' DJ set by all five of The Things. Coon and Fallon - who was hoisted up on the shoulders of The Things' Neil and Robbie during his set! - did their magnificent wham bam thank you ma'am thang, all twang and Jaime dancing all over the place in a blue beaded bikini. Another rockin' Dublin party.

DeathDiscoBelfast#2 was something else again! Jaime Coon ripped it up with an extraordinary rising-and-rising two-and-a-half-hour set before shakin' out the achin' in long legs and BP's ragged Moe Tucker T shirt. BP in his Joe King Carrasco T shirt got the sold-out audience slavering, before our mainman Shane MacGowan took the DJ reins. The audience, pushed up against the DJ decks, could hardly contain themselves. Shane fucking MacGowan! As at DeathDiscoDublin#11, Shane's unique choice of tracks lifted you and drew you in. Oh, it was all going so absolutely splendidly and the place was roaring and raving and Shane was just about to play Hank Williams singing I See The Light... when a misguided over-enthusiatic fan stage dived the DJ area and landed on the CD player, knocking out the sound. Oh dear. Still, it was a very special night, with Shane playing records from his heart and leading everyone in singing along to Val Doonegan. Crazy. DeathDisco loves Belfast and Belfast loves DeathDisco! Of course we'll be back!

Above: Jaime Coon at DeathDiscoBelfast#2
Photo by BPF using Fuji FinePix S602 Zoom

Some of the music played by DJ Shane MacGowan at Death Disco Belfast#2:
Margaret Barry: The Cottages With The Horseshoe
Val Doonican: Walk Tall
The Flanagan Brothers: Rakes Of Clonmel introducing Sarsfield's Jig
Pecker Dunne: Wexford
Delia Murphy: Down By The Glenside
Thin Lizzy: Rosalie from Live And Dangerous
Delia Murphy: The Moonshiner
Gene Pitney with the first-ever hit written by Jagger-Richards: That Girl Belongs To Yesterday
Aaron McMullan from his CD Drunken Novenas: Not You
The Doors: The WASP [Texas Radio And The Big Beat]
David Bowie: Sorrow
Siamsa Gaedheal Celidh Band: King Of The Jigs/An t'Altair/Jack Walsh/MacDonagh's Jig
and - almost! - Hank Williams: I Saw The Light

>> Shane MacGowan at DeathDiscoDublin#11!

STAY TUNED FOR DEATHDISCO DATES IN BERLIN + HAMBURG!!!

Jan 2003

BP FALLON APPEARS IN HEADRUSH!!!
BP Fallon is to be in the forthcoming movie Headrush. Says award-winning director Shimmy Marcus of the drugs and gangsters comedy caper: "It's Trainspotting meets Withnail And I, crossed with The Lavendar Hill Mob." BP plays the guru Blowback, who deals a mix of sage advice and primo weed. Also in the film are Steven Berkoff, Huey Morgan of The Fun Lovin' Criminals, Jaime Coon, Gavin Kelty, MC Wuzza, John Kavanagh and Tom Hickey.

The last time Mr Fallon appeared on the big screen was in 1966 as a extra in Antonioni's classic 'Swinging Sixties' film Blow Up, which starred non-extras David Hemmings, Vanessa Redgrave and Jane Birkin. BP appears in the Ricky Tick Club scene, grooving to The Yardbirds - featuring guitarists Jeff Beck and Jimmy Page - playing Stroll On. "Ten pounds a day to look stoned and listen to amazing rock'n'roll twanging" is how BP remembers it.

God bless Mickey Finn 1947 - 2003
Rest in Peace.

NEWS FLASH!!!
SHANE MacGOWAN TO DJ AT DEATH DISCO PARTIES IN GALWAY + BELFAST!

Shane MacGowan joins BP Fallon + Alan McGee + Jaime Coon to DJ at DeathDiscoGalway#1 at Cuba on Thursday January 30 and DeathDiscoBelfast#2 on Saturday February 1 at The Front Page!

ShaneMacGowan DJed for two amazing hours at DeathDiscoDublin#11 back in September 2002. His spellbinding set ranged from reggae to rockabilly, The Sex Pistols [God Save The Queen] to Eddie Floyd [Knock On Wood] and lotsa Led Zeppelin. Plus Shane's memorable duet with Elvis!

"Shane DJing at DDD#11 will either be awful or it'll be brilliant" remarked the other Elvis [Costello] at the time. It was brilliant. See Shane and BPF at DDD#11!

Shane chills out after his DJ set at DeathDiscoDublin#11
Photo by BPF using Fuji FinePix S602 Zoom

HOT NEWS! DEATH DISCO GOES TO CUBA... WELL, SORTA!
FALLON + MCGEE + COON = DEATHDISCO 2003!!!


DeathDisco, the most happening rock'n'roll club on the planet, have announced their first three Irish parties of 2003 - which kick off with the first-ever DeathDisco in Galway! And DJs for all three new DD dates are the mighty collective of BP 'Full On' Fallon, Alan 'Mainman' McGee and our fave rave dancing dervish DJ from New York City Miss Jaime 'Gimme Shelter' Coon!

Make a date with Death Disco!
Thursday Jan 30 DeathDiscoGalway#1 at Cuba, Eyre Square, Galway
Friday Jan 31 DeathDiscoDublin#15 at Whelans, Wexford Street, Dublin
Saturday Feb 1 DeathDiscoBelfast#2 at The Front Page, 110 Donegal Street, Belfast
Read what MUTE-ni said about DeathDiscoBelfast#1

>>> Death Disco in Scotland!!! <<<
Fallon + Alan rock on to Scotland after the DeathDisco dates in Ireland.
DeathDiscoGlasgow#2 on Fri Feb 7 and DeathDiscoEdinburgh#1 on Saturday Feb 8 feature our fearsome duo on deck duty, joined in Glasgow by Tam Coyle and in Edinburgh by The Extra Width Posse featuring Keiron, Nasty G and Stuart from Mogwai. The first-ever DeathDisco in Glasgow was mental - prepare for more rock'n'roll madness!

Make a Scottish date with Death Disco!
Friday February 7 DeathDiscoGlasgow#2 at The Barfly, 260 Clyde St.
Saturday February 8 DeathDiscoEdinburgh#1 upstairs at Gaia, Kings Stable Road.

BP FALLON'S WANG DANG DOODLE INTO 2003!!!
The complete set list from BP's New Year's Eve radio show on Today FM