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Shane MacGowan in New York November 2005

That pair of retrobates Shane MacGowan and BP Fallon are teaming up yet again - to check into Rehab!

And who better to DJ with BP at Rehab's Irish debut than Shane MacGowan. Shane - who will play Brendan Behan in the film adaptation of JP Dunleavy's The Ginger Man with his chum Johnny Depp - was spotted after the film's announcement party last month gallivanting in strange clubs all over and under New York with his pal BP, the dutiful duo no doubt limbering up for the craic at Rehab after The Pogues Dublin Christmas Concert.

Our celebrated Mr MacGowan has already triumphantly DJed at seven Death Discos in Dublin and Belfast, getting the dance-floor jumping with everything from The Clash and Led Zeppelin to Joy Division and Jerry Lee Lewis via Sly And The Family Stone, The Stones, Hank Williams and The Siamsa Gaedheel Ceilidh Band.

Shane MacGowan and BPF in New York November 2005

People go bonkers when Shane's spinning. He's bloody good at it, sometimes also singing into the mic over the record. The bandleader in him reads the crowd and as the audience rises and rises volcanically he chooses his tracks instinctively - even though at times he might let on he doesn't give a fuck. Ah, that vagrant poetic charm. "I like DJing,' says Shane, "because I like, like, Hendrix and Elvis and I can't do that in my bands - but as a DJ I can play that music, know what I mean?"

Photos: BP Fallon & Shane MacGowan by Slava T Gordon | Shane by BP | Shot on location in New York City Nov 2005 using Fuji FinePix S9500

DJs BP Fallon and Louise Fenton [Shindig!] were well vibed to be joined on Thursday December 8 at the final 2005 Rehab New York by The Big Apple's fine full-on take-no-prisoners rock'n'roll band who checked into Rehab's cure-all DJ booth for spinning and grinning, dancing and prancing. Yes, the magnificent triad of Eric Strickler [gtr/vox] and Mary Garlin [drums/vox] and Bass [bass/vox] from the mighty Kickstart certainly spun 'em up! And after spinning Fuck It Up by Towers Of London, Bass gifted BP with the single and another TOW two-tracker, having already promised to burn him The Chamber Brothers Time Has Come Today album as well as a cut by The Action. Life's good.

And Kickstart rocked it up mega at Death Disco New York last Wednesday December 14 and Bass laid the tracks on BP. Have merci!

Rehab also salutes the fab DJ Strummer for her fantastic 90 minutes all-Stones voyage on November 17, billed suitably as Strummer Gets Stoned. And! The delicious Laura and Margot and Julie of The Assault for their tremendous two-and-a-half hours DJ set on December 1. Simply fantastic, m'ladies! Says Julie: "Margot, Laura and I let loose and really shook things up - literally and figuratively..." See the photo by BP and read more of Julie's Rehab revelations!>>>

"This scurrilous hoedown" - Bruce Tantum in Time Out New York on Rehab

DOCTOR MY SOUL! NOW WE’RE OFF TO REHAB!
“WHERE BAD HABITS GET EVEN BETTER”

The King Of Britpop Alan McGee – co-founder of Death Disco with BP Fallon – jetted to New York to join BP on the decks at the amazingly-brilliant American opening night of Rehab.

Our double dynamite DJ duo were joined by Alan's 17-year-old son Dan Devine - already a demon on the discs - and New York wild child Louise Fenton who BP discovered when she was walking around Williamsburg in an original Vivienne Westwood Sex Pistols t shirt from Sex and BP asked her “You wanna go to Rehab?” As well as DJing up a storm, Louise is one of the people behind the crazy New York party Shindig.

Last time Fallon and Alan DJed together – at Death Disco New York - the pair of ol’ Celts were joined behind the turntables by the wonderful Kate Moss.

Photos: Alan McGee & Kate Moss & BPF by Joly | Louise Fenton by BPF using Fuji Finepix S 9500

LAURA & MARGOT & JULIE THIS THURSDAY DEC 1!
DJs BP FALLON + LOUISE FENTON [Shindig!]

We are proud to be joined by New York's most effervescent rock'n'pop tarts who check into Rehab's cure-all DJ booth for dancing and laughter, fun and folics. Yes, our fab vibeful threesome of sassy lassies LAURA LEONTINE and MARGOT BIANCA and JULIE POP of our fave three-girl combo THE ASSAULT will DJ yer sox off!

Says Laura: "It's a very special, very once in a blue moon DJ set. Expect to hear lots of different types of music - as varied as our influences". Here're a few of Laura's:

alex chilton/beach boys/brian eno/danava/doobie brothers/dynasty/glass candy and the shattered theater/the gossip/hawkwind/heart/jay z/pvmt/johnny cash/alice cooper/trina/ike and tina turner/ludacris/modern lovers/otis redding/the shangri las/prince/rogers sisters/stones/runaways/the scruffs/t.rex/todd rundgren/the vaselines/x ray spex/wire/the zombies

CHECK INTO REHAB THANKSGIVING NIGHT THURS NOV 24
DJs BP FALLON + LOUISE FENTON [Shindig!] + SURPRISE GUEST DJ!

Well, not everyone in New York will be jumping on trains and planes and deserting The Big Apple for the big nosh-up with their families, so we open the doors to rock'n'roll redemption... eat, drink and be merry all day and escape to Rehab to boogaloo all night.

and maybe just because BP just saw the Stones in San Francisco and they were amazing and at one point Ronnie wore a CBGB t shirt and maybe just because anyway we don't need a reason for anything at Rehab:

DJ STRUMMER GETS STONED! 90 minutes of Stones music and movies from Miss Sweet Virginia Strummer herself
at Capone’s, 221 North 9th Street between Driggs & Roebling, Williamsburg, Brooklyn, New York 11211
10pm till the wee wee hours

Tel# 718 599 4044
L train at Bedford.
Admission free and free pizza all night long

AND THE BEEP GOES ON
NEW YORK, IRELAND, TRA LA LA

From a stage invasion during his mega three-hour DJ set at the sold-out show in his hometown of Dublin to his Death Disco New York parties showcasing the very future of music, BP Fallon, as the nimble finger of summer pokes into the fresh flesh fires of autumn, he keeps on choogling. Wham bam thank you twang.

The Death Disco New York CMJ party featured a rake of tremendous acts from San Francisco's Princehouse and Cochon record labels, with the Bay Area's Von Iva - four feisty female soul-shaking dance punk queens with the hot-buttered energy and inspiration of a Sunday-morning gospel choir on heat - explosively raising the roof alongside the vibraphonic synth-garage rock of The Kohl Heart and their mod sexpot singer Rachel Taylor. Soul ain't dead, baby. An' you lookin' good... more>>>

Photos: BPF Dublin stage invasion | Von Iva at Death Disco New York | Rachel Taylor of The Kohl Heart at DDNY
all by BPF using Fuji Finepix S 7000

Death Disco New York celebrated one year at The Delancey on Wed Sept 7 with a stellar lineup of The Specimen, Motico, Woman, Electric Shadows, The Dead Betties, The Visitors and The Choke, with the 1st Anniversary festivities completed by DD's latest hot discovery Milk 4 Cats - these feline females, street walking cheetahs with a heart full of Tiger Balm, tigresses on Vaseline, they're blowing minds, the three Geminis Tricia McBride [gtr & vox] and Sibyl Buck [bass & vox] and Lindsay Jones [gtr & vox & keyboards & melodica] propelled perfectly by single-name drummer Mackie from The Cro-mags and Bad Brains.

Catch Milk 4 Cats before they become mega. The most talked about new group in New York is hotter than a volcano... and even cooler than lust. Happy everything.

Photo: Sibyl & Tricia & Lindsay of Milk 4 Cats at Death Disco New York by BPF using Fuji Finepix S 7000

BP POPS OVER TO THE EMERALD FOR A COUPLE

BP Fallon nips over to Ireland from New York for two hot DJ engagements.

Our hero brings the 2005 Clonakilty International Guitar Festival to a rocking climax when Death Disco appears at The Imperial Hotel on Sunday September 25, where BP is joined by lauded Cork stars The Frank And Walters plus Chucklehead and Hybrasil in this mystical township in the south west of Ireland.

"I'm delighted to be playing in Clonakilty" says BP from New York. "I've a strong connection with Clon through Noel Redding, a dear friend since his days as bassplayer in The Jimi Hendix Experience. Noel lived and died in Clon, bless him. I've fond memories of the Clonakilty Busking Festival on which I was a judge with Noel and even now I can see us sitting in the sunshine in Emmet Square listening to the buskers. Great craic. And my Godson Danny Dennehy, he lives in Clon now with his mum Patsy". And Fallon's former PR client and sparring-partner Roy Harper - immortalised by Led Zeppelin in their song Hats Off To Harper and among the twelve fine artists in the Clonakilty Guitar Festival - he lives nearby too.

And from County Cork BP heads to Dublin where he is Special Guest DJ at the Dun Laoghaire Arts College Freshers Ball - also know as the IADT. There, he's supported by the thrilling new band that Hot Press have been loudly trumpeting, The Marshall Stars. Ah, what magnificent mainline rock'n'roll fun!

Wed Sept 28 DUN LAOGHAIRE IADT FRESHERS BALL The Temple Bar Music Centre, Dublin

Photo: Flying Saucers Rock'n'Roll! BP boards his flying saucer to Ireland by Sam Richman using Fuji Finepix 7000

DEATH DISCO DUBLIN GOES VERTIGAL
OVER THE TOP: BP & SHANE & STEVE & PETE… & RONNIE DREW!

Ronnie Drew + BPF + Shane MacGowan “When they played that song at the Death Disco...”

Before splitting to DJ at DD, BP Fallon and Shane MacGowan caught much of the Croke Park U2 Vertigo concert – where in the middle of Running To Stand Still Bono launched into The Pogues version of Dirty Old Town and the whole stadium sang along before Bono dedicated the song to Shane, much to the delight of the 80,000 fans and a grinning MacGowan.

And back at The Village for the Death Disco “Are you too vertigal?” party… Radiators Plan 9 had opened for U2 and now Radiators Steve Rapid and Pete Holidai are back on the DD decks, vibed up by the dancing effervescent Radiator bassist Cait O’Riordan, she also of our pals The Pogues.

Mr Rapid’s 25-track celebrates one year set kicked off with Mott The Hoople Rock’n’Roll Queen and The Pink Fairies I Saw Her Standing There and - via gems by everyone from Taste and The David Johansen Group to Jason & The Scorchers, Willie De Ville and The Shadows’ Apache - roared to the finishing line with The Shadows of Night hurtling through Van’s Gloria and The Move’s pounding BBC recording of The Byrds opus So You Want To Be A Rock’n’Roll Star? Rapid indeed! more vertigal >>

More U2!
1984 photographs of U2
U2 Faraway So Close
BP U2 Q&As
Zoo Radio [audio]
More photography

Photos: Ronnie & BP & Shane go vertigal by and ©Barbara Lindberg

”ARE YOU TOO VERTIGAL?”
DD DJ SHANE MACGOWAN IS BACK!!!
DEATH DISCO DUBLIN YOU TOO VERTICAL PARTY!

The mighty Shane MacGowan re-unites with his chum BP Fallon when the double dynamite DJ duo spin at Death Disco Dublin’s You Too Vertigal party after the 3rd and final Croke Park U2 Vertigo concert.

It will be six months since BP and Shane last DJed in Ireland, when they raised the roof at the infamous DD Dublin XXXmas Party at The Village with the great Ronnie Drew.

Shane MacGowan djs at Death Disco

BP will fly in from his weekly DD New York and all points west – he lately did two hit, git and split Death Discos in Vancouver on two consecutive nights at two different venues in the Canadian city while U2’s Vertigo tour was in town, as well as another Death Disco Frisco. And this will be Shane’s last European appearance before he and The Pogues fly out to play in Japan.

And joining BP and Shane on the decks is Steve Rapid - who gave U2 their name – and Pete Holidai, both from pioneering punk visionaries The Radiators From Space - who also included Philip Chevron of The Pogues. In their 21st century incarnation Radiators Plan 9 with Pogue Cait O’Riordan, the re-united Steve, Pete and Philip play with U2 on one of the Dublin Vertigo dates.

“Are you too vertigal?” asks BP on the phone from somewhere. “We’ll soon sort you out!”

Death Disco Dublin You Too Vertigal Party
DJs BP Fallon & Shane MacGowan & Steve Rapid & Pete Holidai
Mon June 27 The Village, 26 Wexford Street, Dublin 2, Ireland
Doors 10.30pm - Adm €12 - Advance tickets from WAV [tel 1890 200 078], Ticketmaster & Road Records

Photos: On the road again - DD DJs BPF & Shane MacGowan share an early-morning laugh, by Joey Cashman | DJ Shane by BPF using Fuji Finepix S 7000

BEEP BLIP A LULA
BP IN T.REX BORN TO BOOGIE DVD

A blip of BP pops up in the new Marc Bolan and T.Rex DVD of Born To Boogie [Sanctuary]. Pictured during the dressing room melee with Marc and Ringo Starr immediately after the famous 1972 Wembley T.Rex concerts, the bearded visage of Marc’s twinkley-eyed mainman flashes across the screen enigmatically.

When introducing Born To Boogie at its June 9 2005 American premiere at The Sunshine Cinema in New York, the celebrated T.Rex record producer Tony Visconti mentioned that Sanctuary are preparing a DVD of Marc Bolan’s collected TV performances and teasingly hinted “maybe BP Fallon will be in it”.

BP Fallon is acknowledged as an essential force in Marc Bolan’s rise to fame, having helped create the biggest boogaloo in Britain since The Beatles. He was Bolan’s renowned publicist and mental guru from 1969 to 1972, from the hippied embers of Tyrannosaurus Rex through the frenzied mania of T.Rextasy – a word BP invented. Marc had celebrated his pal as ‘Purple Browed Beep’ in the T.Rex hit Telegram Sam and the boppin’ pair remained close friends, writing and recording 21st Century Stance together only days before the 29-year-old Marc danced himself into the tomb on September 16 1977.

Other DVDs in which BP appears are by John Lennon and Led Zeppelin.

Images: Stars in his beard Beep at Wembley March 18 1972, from the Born To Boogie DVD | BP and Boley from the Hot Love performance on German TV’s Hits A Go Go broadcast from Bremen June 27 1971, when at Marc’s suggestion he joined T.Rex to mime congas [unreleased].

The highly-anticipated drugs, gangsters, guns and love comedy caper Headrush finally opened in cinemas in Ireland on June 24, with a premiere in the UGC Cinema in Dublin on Tues June 21 attended by BP Fallon who plays the movie’s weed-and-wisdom-dispensing guru Blowback.

Other members of the cast include Steven Berkoff as the psychotic gangster The Uncle and Fun Lovin’ Criminal Huey Morgan who plays the cross-dressing coke dealer queen The Yank. Written and directed by award-winning Shimmy Marcus, among the Irish bands who contribute music are U2 and Pugwash.

See! HEADRUSH: THE PHOTOGRAPHS
VIEW THE HEADRUSH TRAILER!
WARNING! Contains Foul Language, A Great Shag Scene, Bloody Violence and BP Fallon Naked!!!

Photos: BPF as Blowback + Huey Morgan as The Yank, from the movie Headrush

The Duchess RIP
Death Disco salutes Bo Diddley’s stunning guitar-playing foil Norma-Jean Richardson aka The Duchess – immortalized in The Animals’ 1964 song The Story Of Bo Diddley - who passed last May 7 in Fontana, CA. The Duchess, teasin’ vocals and her hip-shootin’ twanging as dangerous as Sheriff Bo’s gunned-up jugular jungle rhythms… and in gold lame or mother’s daughter gospel dress, always as foxy as a Jimi lady. RIP our Duchess Of Earl.

VANCOUVER GROOVER!
BPF DOES DDV!
BP Fallon’s first visit to Vancouver since playing there on The Zoo TV Tour with U2 saw our dubious hero rushing around this beautiful Canadian city for a couple of days and nights spewing forth a barrage of rock’n’roll and bon mots. At the two pre-U2 concert parties at SkyBar, he was interviewed on stage and conducted a couple of hilarious Q&As with the audience before DJing awhile, returning to SkyBar one night after the U2 concert to rock it up behind the decks there some more.

Additionally, BP launched a searing search and destroy one-man Death Disco Vancouver campaign – ring up, run in, up with The Ramones DD banner, the “You Are Here” posters, light the candle, now let’s DJ, please - at The Cellar and The Media Club. In full hit, git and split mode, our fab Fallon manhandled the decks to the max for an hour or so at each rock club to a gob-smacked crowd going mental before vanishing back into legend.

“Rock’n’roll is here to stay” noted our exhausted but delighted DJ.

BPF thanks ETS, Vancouver’s Classic Rock 101 and all who sail in her, Christine & Rebecca at The Cellar, Lili at The Media Club and Chris at SkyBar. Thanks too to Brady Vox & Elevation & Gary Moore. Very special appreciation to Brian & Shelley Streeter – we salute you.

Photo: BPF DJ hands by Gary Moore

More U2!
1984 photographs of U2
U2 Faraway So Close
BP U2 Q&As
Zoo Radio [audio]
More photography

BP DISMANTLES AN ATOMIC BOMB!!!
USA AND CANADA ON FULL ALERT

BP Fallon is set to entertain U2 fans on the current barnstorming North American tour by Bono, The Edge, Adam and Larry. At selected dates at the official U2 pre-show parties organized by the band’s tour operator ETS, BP will conduct a Q&A and DJ some rockin’ records to vibe up the fans even higher for the evening’s U2 concert. And on additional dates, after the U2 concert fans will flock to BP’s Death Disco party to groove the night away.

BP was the special guest speaker at the U2 fan fest in Ontario, California, last fall and followed that escapade by appearing at Toronto’s InTO The Heart U2 fan fest where a triumphant Death Disco made its Canadian debut – with all proceeds going to Amnesty International and local Aids hospice Casey House.

First dates to be released for BP’s guest appearances are Vancouver Skybar [Thurs + Fri April 28 + 29] with Death Disco Vancouver shakin’ it up after the U2 concert on Fri April 29 at a venue tba.

Other dates confirmed for these unique events are Chicago Excaliber Night Club [Tues May 10 – Bono’s birthday!], New York Spirit [Sat May 21], Philadelphia Shampoo [Sun May 22] and Boston Ned Devine’s [Tues May 24], with Toronto in the second leg of U2’s North American voyage already set for Fri + Sat Sept 16 + 17 and with more dates to be announced.

BP's official title on U2's global ZOO TV tour was 'Guru, Viber and DJ' and at the band's urging he published his book of photographs and stories from this amazing voyage, the acclaimed book U2 Faraway So Close. Says BP: “I had an incredible time on that tour and I can't wait for this next adventure. The U2 fans are the root of all this and I’m honoured to have been invited to address them again and play some tunes to rock their socks off”. At each Death Disco on the tour, fans can vote for their Top Ten U2 Faves – which BP will spin in reverse order, climaxing with the fans’ chosen No. 1. At the end of the tour, the combined votes will be tallied up and the ultimate fans’ U2 Top Ten will be revealed. “I wonder what U2 song will win” muses BP. Watch this space!

More U2!
1984 photographs of U2
U2 Faraway So Close
BP U2 Q&As
Zoo Radio [audio]
More photography

Marc Bolan on the cover of Mojo magazine

BPF TALKS TO MOJO ABOUT MARC BOLAN
"It was the changing of the guard, the biggest new sensation in Britain since The Fabs, here, live, very live, in front of all these joyous weeping shrieking fans all looking like the star and going stark raving bonkers, having the time of their lives. Rock'n'Roll was made for this. And so was Marc Bolan.

"He had the power, he had the magic, strutting, posing, twanging, laughing, the prince of pleasure teasing for pleasing, singing and grinning, let's take a guitar solo... life's a fucking gas, man, it really is. With my Les Paul, I know I'm small bit I enjoy living anyway. You're dirty and sweet. Fuck me.

"And Ringo was filming this mayhem, this T.Rextasy that was the biggest boogaloo since Beatlemania, this bearded guy urging on his cameramen, and no one gives a toss about Fabdom, not even Ringo right now. The crown of stars has been passed on and Ringo, fair play to him, is helping the new hero Marc wear it gloriously. There were no thorns in it, then" - BP Fallon, February 2005

BP Fallon was Marc Bolan’s PR and mental guru from 1969 to 1972, from Tyrannosaurus to T.Rextasy, with Marc describing his pal as ‘Purple Browed Beep’ in the T.Rex hit Telegram Sam. When BP left professionally he didn’t know what to say so he wrote his friend a song: It’s Alright, Marc [I’m Only Leaving]

MOJO May 2005 edition out now.

SAN FRANCISCO WELCOMES FALLON'S PHOTOGRAPHIC EXHIBITION!!!
DEATH DISCO SAN FRANCISCO TOO!

Debbie Harry NYC 2001

BP Fallon’s first-ever photography exhibition takes place at The Blue Cube in San Francisco this Friday April 15. The exhibition spans BP’s photographic work from 1979 – a shot of Lemmy at home in London’s Notting Hill Gate – up the present day and includes iconic images of Bono, Keith Richards and Ronnie Wood, Jerry Lee Lewis, Van Morrison, Phil Lynott, Johnny Thunders, Little Richard, Debbie Harry, Ian Dury, Jimmy Page and Iggy Pop.

Following the photo exhibition, there will be a reception where Mr Fallon will discuss his work and conduct a Q&A with the audience.

Then still at The Blue Cube, Death Disco San Francisco kicks off until dawn, with DJ BPF joined on the decks by MC Unkle Paul plus the highly-anticipated live performance by San Francisco’s most interplanetary group Jade Steel & Emerald Triangle, all pumped up even more via the startling lighting and mind-fucking visual vibes by the legendary VJ Stefan G. As if this were not enough, one hundred girls will be desporting themselves around the Death Disco San Francisco party dressed in lingerie. “Must be the warm San Francisco weather” notes BP.

Fri April 15 The Blue Cube 34 Mason, San Francisco
6pm - THE BP FALLON PHOTOGRAPHIC EXHIBITION
8pm - AN EVENING WITH BP FALLON
10pm - DEATH DISCO SAN FRANCISCO

Photo: Debbie Harry at Joey Ramone's 50th Birthday Bash in New York, 2001 using Fuji FinepixS602 Zoom

BP Fallon's Photography

ONE YEAR OLD NEW YORK WILD CHILD CELEBRATES 1ST BIRTHDAY!
DEATH DISCO EATS CAKE!

Lights! Volume! Action! Cake!
Says drummer Mary Gatlin from DD faves Kickstart, who played a storming take-no-prisoners set that sounded like barbed-wire and icecream: "I had such a blast at Death Disco's birthday party. Holy Mama, what a good time!"

Yes, it was brilliant. St Patrick's Night in New York City and DD NYC's 1st Birthday Party at The Knitting Factory Tap Bar where New York's hottest happening started exactly one year ago...

On the throbbing decks DJs BP Fallon and Joly plus a cooking cabal of magic live bands - the twisted dark brightness of Schizo Fun Addict, the sexual rebel roar of Shellshocked, our vibe-central pals Kickstart and - having demanded they be put on the show - the wild beauty and beautiful wildness of Live Girls!!! Fuck me, as the actress said to the bishop... more words & sweet pix >>>

Photo: BPF + Mary Gatlin of Kickstart by Klem

DEATH DISCO NEW YORK: HAPPY 1ST BIRTHDAY!!!
"We've had some amazing bands like Live Girls!!! and Kickstart, The Brazilian Girls, Mightyfine, Dynasty, The Pill, The Assault, Nanushka, Fur Cups For Teeth, The Fairies Band, many many more... and we've danced to some amazing records and we've seen some amazing videos and we've met some amazing people - and I'm talking here not only about folk like Kate and Liv and The Kills and The Kings Of Leon and the grooving ghosts of Gene Vincent and Marc Bolan, Elvis and Johnny Thunders and rock'n'roll svengali cats like Andrew Loog Oldham and our own Alan McGee, though we love them all, we truly do - I'm talking about the normal folk who come to our parties... well, they're not normal really cos no-one's completely normal who comes to Death Disco, are you? In our own ways we all have our own vibes, thank God, our own isms, so what the heck. We have fun, we have a laugh, we rock out, we chill out... the music, the atmosphere, the people, it's a rock'n'roll family affair that's open to anyone, a rock'n'roll happening with a lot of smiling faces, a lot of eye contact, a lot of laughter... and always it's elevating and sometimes it's magic. What a groove" - BP Fallon commenting on DD NYC's 1st Birthday.

"One year old already? Time flies"
Death Disco thanks Aer Lingus + Jet Blue + lib-lab

Death Disco New York: The Cast
BP FALLON: DJ & MC & your host
VJ JOLY: Renowned film-maker, runs Punkcast.com, VJs extraordinary rock'n'roll footage new & old
DJ MOJO: DJs up a storm. "No sweat" sez Mojo
PLUS! Great live bands & guest DJs & you

DD NYC 1ST BIRTHDAY PARTY ON ST PATRICK'S DAY!!!
Percolating & circulating, fun & frolics... blow out the candle & let us eat cake
Live Girls!!! + KICKSTART + SHELLSHOCKED + SCHIZO FUN ADDICT + DJ BP FALLON + THE DD DJs
ST PATRICK'S NIGHT THURS MARCH 17 THE KNITTING FACTORY TAP BAR
74 Leonard St between Broadway & Church, NY 10013 Tel (001) 212 219 3132
8pm till all hours - Admission FREE - because we're one year old!

BP DJs AT NEW YORK'S CRAIC FESTIVAL!
Three top Irish DJs flaunt their stuff at The Craic Music Festival - part of The Irish Film Fleadh - when they headline The All Star DJ Night. Spinning they're sox off are BP Fallon, dance music maestro Johnny Moy and WNYU radio star Tim Sweeney
SAT MAR 12 - ALL STAR DJ NIGHT AT THE CRAIC FESTIVAL, CRASH MANSION, 199 THE BOWERY AT SPRING St, NY 10002

HAPPY BIRTHDAY DEATH DISCO NEW YORK!!!
DD NYC IS ONE YEAR OLD!!!

1st ANNIVERSARY & ST PATRICK'S NIGHT PARTY!!!
LIVE GIRLS!!! + KICKSTART + SHELLSHOCKED + DJ BP FALLON + THE DD DJs
THURS MAR 17 - THE KNITTING FACTORY, 74 LEONARD ST between BROADWAY & CHURCH, NY 10013
Tel: (001) 212 219 3132

DEATH DISCO NEW YORK GETS STONED!

Andrew Loog Oldham - the maverick enfant terrible who managed, launched and produced The Rolling Stones - popped into DD NYC to see firsthand the cutting edge of rock'n'roll and electro today. In town to record his Sirius satellite radio programme, Andrew was en route to his homebase of Bogota, Columbia, where he is writing another book to follow his inspirational Stoned and 2Stoned tomes.

BPF and ALO last met in Tralee in Ireland last fall, when Fallon interviewed Oldham live on stage at The Kerry Film Festival before the screening of the rare 1965 ALO Stones movie Charlie Is My Darling. A most memorable night in the west of Ireland.

At Death Disco New York, the man who did publicity for The Beatles, who tutored the Stones in their outlaw stance, who locked Mick and Keith into a room until they'd written their first song, who discovered Marianne Faithfull and co-wrote her first hit As Tears Go By with Mick and Keith, who recorded Nico before her VU daze, who signed The Small Faces and Peter Green's Fleetwood Mac to his Immediate label where the house mainman/studio guitarist was Jimmy Page... whose Andrew Loog Oldham Orchestra interpretation of The Last Time was stolen hook, sink and musical meltdown by The Verve for their Bitter Sweet Symphony and Andrew got the dosh... this legend of rock'n'roll whose vast influence has touched our lives in one way or another, at DD NYC Andrew Loog Oldham surveyed the scene smiling wrily to himself like an emperor who has seen it all... and is almost tempted to leap back into the pool. ALO: we salute you.

Photo: BPF & ALO at DD NYC by Aishah Roberts using Fuji Finepix S7000

January 2005

NEWSFLASH!!!
RED CROSS ASIA DISASTER BENEFIT

Shane MacGowan, Ronnie Drew, Kila, David Kitt, The Hothouse Flower, John Sheehan and Barney McKenna [The Dubliners], Roesy, Miriam Ingram, Dave's Radio and comedians Apres Match, Joe Rooney, Karl Spain, Ruben and Dave McSavage. MC for the night is BP Fallon.
Dublin RDS Concert Hall, Sat Jan 8. Tickets €30 from Ticketmaster and on the door. Doors 6pm