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March 2008
BPF ON PODGE & RODGE!
SURREAL IRISH TV LUNACY - EASTER MONDAY MARCH 24!
BP Fallon will be interviewed by a pair of puppets on Irish TV this Monday March 24. In the celebrated line of such cutting-edge celebrities as Sinead O'Connor and Shane MacGowan, BP will be special guest on the hugely popular Podge & Rodge television show. The anarchic Podge and Rodge are famous for their no-holds-barred pugnacious interview style, often winding up their victims like a clockwork orangutang. Can BP handle it? Can they handle BP? Tune in to see, folks!
 It will not be the first time that our Mr Fallon has been interviewed by a non-human. When he was promoting his book U2 Faraway So Close, he was interviewed on Irish TV by Dustin The Turkey who has since gone on to enjoy hit records with such fabbos as the late Joe Dolan and Sir Bob Geldof who's almost always on time. In May in Serbia, 'The Duck' as Louis Walsh calls Dustin The Turkey will be singing the song that is Ireland's entry in the 2008 Eurovision Song Contest [This is all true. We are not making this up].
And meanwhile the BP Fallon Podge & Rodge interview can soon be seen on YouTube! What a hoot, this life thing...
Podge & Rodge with Sinead O'Connor
Podge & Rodge with Shane MacGowan
Podge & Rodge with BP Fallon, RTÊ TWO, Monday Mar 24 @ 10.50pm
Photo: Podge & Rodge courtesy of RTE. Special thanks to Marion Cullen & Trevor Keegan & Robert Lanigan
October
2007
God
Bless Marc Bolan
Sept
30 1947 - Sept 16 1977
"I
danced myself into the tomb
Is
it strange to dance so soon?"
- Marc
Bolan in the T.Rex song Cosmic
Dancer
Also
remembered: Mickey Finn, Steve
Currie & Steve Peregrine Took
Marc's
mum and dad Simeon & Phyllis
Feld
June
Bolan, Tony Secunda, Chelita
Secunda & Tony Howard
RIP
September
2007
God
Bless Elvis
Jan
8 1935 - Aug 16 1977
"Before
Elvis, there was nothing" - John
Lennon
"Hearing
Elvis was like busting out of jail" - Bob
Dylan
"ELVIS
JUST CHANGED THE WHOLE BOOGALOO"
BP
Fallon talks about Elvis
BP live
on TodayFM's The
Last Word with Matt Cooper Aug
16 2007
July 2007
MEGA SPW NYC SHOW AT KNITTING FACTORY THIS SATURDAY JULY 7!
BOWIEBALL TRIUMPH!
Hot from stealing the show at New York's infamous BowieBall - where they were joined on stage by Steve Conte of The New York Dolls on guitar and their feted producer Tony Visconti on bass - Semi Precious Weapons explode back home from The Precious Midwest Tour for their biggest Big Apple show so far, the All Ages extravaganza Glamour @ The Knitting Factory New York.
 
Promising to be even wilder than their historic series of headlining hometown gigs at Ars Nova, Europa and Rebel NYC and their bill-topping appearances at Death Disco, SPW will be supported at The Knitting Factory by those superb ghettotech stylists Stylophone and SPW fave-rave back-by-popular-demand the electrifying crazy girl Lady Ga Ga. Whew!
And! DJ is SPW fan and one of the very coolest cats in rock, Sune Rose Wagner of The Raveonettes.
Meanwhile, the killer Semi Precious Weapons album is complete apart from mastering by the sonic master George Marino. And already it's the most highly-anticipated debut album from the New York demi-monde since the Ramones first 12-incher!
Sat July 7 GLAMOUR @ THE KNITTING FACTORY 74 Leonard St, New York NY 10013
Semi Precious Weapons 1.15am
Stylophone 12.15am
Lady Ga Ga 11.30pm
And! Very Special Guest DJ! Sune Rose Wagner of The Raveonettes
Doors 11pm Adm $10 BUY TICKETS HERE Tel 212 219 3006 ALL AGES!!!
Photos: Life On Mars with Steve Conte, Justin Tranter & Tony Visconti by Rebecca Smeyne/The Village Voice | Never Mind Bowie's Bollocks, It's Semi Precious Weapons Plus! Left to right Dan Crean, Chest Rockwell, Tony Visconti, Justin Tranter, Steve Conte & Cole Whittle after playing together and blowing minds @ BowieBall, by BPF using Fuji FinePix 9500 | See the punters in BowieBallNYC's photos!
June 2007
DEATH DISCO NEW YORK LIVES!
BOWIEBALL TOO!
 The legendary rock'n'roll soiree Death Disco New York - in association with America's hippest weekly email magazine FlavorPill and our friends at Magnum PR - makes a special one-off appearance as an official after-party for Tony Wilson's In The City Of New York, adding an American flavor to the six ITC British bands that play as part of this stimulating and often controversial two-day music seminar.
Performing at Flavorpill Death Disco New York on Wednesday June 13 are NY's hottest cock-in-pocket heroes Semi Precious Weapons and fresh from The Stooges tour the mighty Franco V & The High Class Elite - plus the Englishman in New York with his hot female USA rhythm section, Psychic Drive. The party kicks off immediately after the In The City gig at The Nokia Theatre with Happy Mondays, The Rakes and The Pigeon Detectives. And on June 14 at The Highline Ballroom Biffy Clyro, Enter Shakira and Blood Red Shoes do their ITC thing.
At the highly-anticated Death Disco bash that'll welcome our UK friends to what's happening baby in this here Stateside neck of the woods, DJing/MCing will be The High Priest Of Death Disco New York himself BP Fallon - joined by the exceedingly over-the-top triad of guest spinners Tommy Couture, Mario Valentino and Nellee Dii.
Two nights later Semi Precious Weapons again headline the debauchery when they top the bill at New York's infamous BowieBall - subtitled The Ultimate Glam Rock Revolution. Abandoning for once their own kunty classics, the band will perform their reading of Bowie's I'm Afraid Of Americans before they're joined for Life On Mars by New York Dolls guitar ace Steve Conte - SPW are Steve's favourite new band - and SPW producer Tony Visconti who's also produced T.Rex/Bowie/Thin Lizzy/Morrissey and played bass on many David Bowie tracks. “The last time I saw Tony play live," notes SPW manager BP Fallon, “was when he got up one night with Marc Bolan and Mickey Finn in Oxford in 1970. Next day Marc rang me and said 'We need a bassplayer in T.Rex!'”
  
Also playing at BowieBall: Bowie guitarist Earl Slick with his Slinky Vagabond vocalist Keanan Duffty, Formica, Peppermint and Deva. DJing is by New York's superstar spinners: BP Fallon, Michael T from Motherfucker and Warren Fischer and Jon Kane of Fischerspooner - while Amber Ray, Ginger Fringe and Angie Pontani from the world-famous Fontani Sisters supply the burlesque. Your hosts include Fancy Nancy, JaiDee Valentine and Twig The Wonderkid from Glam Dammit. Ah, John, I'm only dancing.
Part of the BowieBall proceeds go to God's Love We Deliver
Wed June 13 FLAVORPILL DEATH DISCO NEW YORK @ The Delancey, 168 Delancey St at Clinton St, Lower East Side, NY
Doors: 10pm - 4am Tel 212 254 9920
Fri June 15 BOWIEBALL @ Don Hill's, 511 Greenwhich St at Spring St, NY 10013
Doors: 10pm - 4am Tel 212 219 2850
May 2007
SEMI PRECIOUS EASTERN SWING...
MAKE MUSIC NEW YORK FESTIVAL...
AND BACK IN THE STUDIO WITH TONY VISCONTI!
 Semi Precious Weapons hit the road this weekend with their brilliantly kunty music, a tongue-in-chic fuck you with an effervescent smile. In some places they may ruffle a few feathers but those people need to be plucked. The rest of us will get off on the most exciting and fearless new band on the planet. Glamour! Sexuality! Rock'n'Roll! Hit Songs! Killer Musicians! And in Justin Tranter the most charismatic and lewd showman since the king was Prince with his purple reign. You have been warned.
And at the beginning of June the band go back into the studio with Tony Visconti and Mario McNulty to complete the debut SPW album - already the most eagerly-awaited new recordings from the New York demi-monde since The Ramones first LP. Fuck yeah.
Friday May 11 THE BRILLO BOX
4104 Penn Avenue, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 15224
Doors 10pm Adm $5 Age 18+
Saturday May 12 POLHAM presents GLAMOUR @ REBEL
251 W 30th Street at 8th Avenue, New York, NY 10001
Semi Precious Weapons 10.30pm
plus Special Guest Star The Retro Sexual Lady GaGa 9.30pm
Doors 9pm Adm $10 Advance Tickets/$12 on door Age 18+
Thursday June 21 MAKE MUSIC NEW YORK FESTIVAL
1pm Thompkins Square Park, The East Village
Mid-afternoon The Lower East Side, time & location tba
9pm Williamsburg, playing on a stage in the street on Bedford Avenue by Nth 6
This day will Weaponize the unsuspecting...
be prepared to be unprepared...
SPW playing live under the NY sky
three times before the cock crows twice. Gosh.
Thursday June 28 BERNIE'S DISTILLERY
1896 N High Street, Columbus, Ohio
Doors 9pm Adm $5 ALL AGES!
Friday June 29 BLUEBERRY HILL
6504 Delmar, St Louis, Missouri
Doors 9pm Adm $7 21+
Saturday June 30 MARTYRS
3855 N Lincoln, Chicago, Illinois 60613
Doors 9pm Adm $10 18+
Friday August 3 THE MIDDLE EAST UPSTAIRS
470 Mass Avenue, Cambridge, Massachusetts
Doors 11pm Adm $9 21+
Saturday August 18 DC9
1940 9th Street, NW, Washington DC, Washington DC 20001
Doors 9pm Adm $8 21+
Photo [above]: Justin Tranter in the shower in New York in Tommy and Roy Couture by BPF using Fuji FinePix 9500 and from the latest shots uploaded on BP Fallon's Flickr which as well as SPW also include Carl Barat, Jerry Lee Lewis, Bono as MacPhisto, Anna Nicole Smith, Robert Plant, ModRocket, Mick Jones and Kate Moss.
April 2007
SEE SPW PLAYING LIVE IN BOSTON Thursday NEW YORK Saturday!
 
Semi Precious Weapons with the glitter of Texas still in their eyes return to Boston for even more crazed mania
from their fantastic fans The Kunty Klan!
Thursday April 12 THE MIDDLE EAST UPSTAIRS
472 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge, Massachusetts Doors 10pm Adm $9 Age 18+
And then of course NYC goes totally mental again with the homecoming heroes SPW...
Saturday April 14 GLAMOUR @ REBEL
251 W 30th Street at 8th Avenue, New York, NY 10001 Doors 8pm Adm $10 Age 16+
Semi Precious Weapons 10.30
Plus!
The Soft Explosions 9.30
Plus!
Batorats 8.30
Photos [above]: Justin Tranter Weaponizes | Justin + Cole Whittle
by DejaRad at Glamour @ Club Europa NYC March 2 2007
FLICKR FUCKR & TEXAS & KATE PETE NUTS
 BP Fallon's Flickr now picturing Semi Precious Weapons at SXSW in Austin Texas and beyond.
Also in there somehow: Alan McGee, Tony Visconti, The Stooges, Peaches, Shane MacGowan, Bobby Gillespie, Courtney Love, The Raveonettes, The Hedrons, Phil Lynott, The New York Dolls, Keith Richards, Brian Jones, Ronnie Wood and Andy Warhol.
More pix of SPW bedazzling Texas and New York by Harley Sears
And! Read Mess With Texas: Justin Tranter's SPW SXSW Blog
Plus! See what goes on at Haus Von Precious during one of SPW's famous loft parties, by DejaRad
Plus! OUR FAVE NEW YOUTUBE CLIP: "Sonny And Cher we're not!" Love, playful affection and "Rot in jail, you cunt!"
at home with Kate & Pete and Pete's new warble about her and him, KP Nuts. And fuck the begrudgers.
March 2007
MUTTON DRESSED AS GLAM!
BP FALLON'S FIRST DJ GIG IN NYC THIS YEAR!
 Having recently DJed at Death Disco Austin with guest DJ Justin Tranter, this Saturday BPF makes his first DJ performance in New York this year at Bang A Gong! A Night Of Glam Rock. And six vibey bands join the festivities, one every hour from 8pm till 1am: The Juniper DeLuxe, Factory Pills, The Staggerin' Boys, Youngster, Cobra Lilly and Kimon.
One of the architects of glam rock, BP Fallon was publicist and headkeeper to Marc Bolan and T.Rex. He coined the word T.Rextasy and is immortalized in the T.Rex hit Telegram Sam as "Purple Browed Beep"
This Saturday March 31 BANG A GONG! @ THE MEAN FIDDLER
266 W 47th Street between Broadway & 8th Avenue
Doors 7.30pm Adm $10
Photo: BP Fallon & Marc Bolan in Denmark 1972 by and © Jorgen Angel
A LONE STAR STATE OF MIND
BPF & SPW GO SOUTH BY SOUTH WEST IN AUSTIN, TEXAS!
Thursday March 15 LADY OF LUXURY & ALAN McGEE PRESENT LUSH LIFE
12 midday @ Mugshot 407 E 7th Street, Austin, Texas
 New York's wildest wildboys Semi Precious Weapons kick off Alan McGee's SXSW Party, playing outside under the Texas sun! Also performing: The Hedrons [Glasgow], Tobias Froberg [Sweden], Vincent Black Shadow [Baltimore] and Earl Greyhound [NYC] plus DJ sets by Death Disco mainmen Alan McGee and BP Fallon. The only time it's cool to come early! Free Admission! RSVP HERE!
Thursday March 15 THE AUSTIN CONVENTION CENTER Room 18ABCD
4.15pm: BP Fallon moderates the SXSW panel 'Artists Speak Out' with panellists Hugh Cornwall from The Stranglers, Marco Pirroni from Siouxsie And The Banshees/Adam And The Ants, Kathy Valentine from The Go Gos and Michael Des Barres of the lock-up-your-daughters combo with whom BP first came to America in 1972, the wild English torn-velvet orchids-in-the-gutter punk group Silverhead.
Friday March 16 THE DELI MAGAZINE PRESENTS THE BEST OF NEW NEW YORK
@ Ruta Maya Coffee House 3601 Congress Avenue, Austin, Texas
8pm: Semi Precious Weapons with that provocative cock-in-pocket tongue-in-chic rock star Justin Tranter bringing this show to a volcanic climax! This wipeout thrown by the most passionate NY rock mag kicks off at 4pm and also features Takka Takka, Goes Cube, Foreign Islands and A Place To Bury Strangers.
Free Admission! All Ages!
Saturday March 17 at FACTORYPEOPLE
1325 S. Congress Avenue, Austin, Texas
4pm: Death Disco/Semi Precious Weapons
DJ set by set by BP Fallon and Justin Tranter
The party in this feted emporium of fashion FactoryPeople is titled 'DJ Sets By Rock Stars'
and one of our dodgy duo lives up to the title gorgeously!
Free Admission! All Ages!
SEE SEMI PRECIOUS WEAPONS LIVE!
ALL AGES SHOW!
  
Playing live for you in a Polish dancehall in New York's beyond-fashionable Greenpoint, Semi Precious Weapons - the heroes of The New Glam starring Justin Tranter the last great modern rock star - with Morrissey's favourite singer Kristeen Young just back from touring in the UK with His Mozness plus the female-fronted softcore mutation of Devo!
Full cunty lineup:
Deva 7.30pm
Kristeen Young 8.30pm
Semi Precious Weapons 9.30pm
And! England's Dreaming! The Evening's Elegant DJ
Keanan Duffty of Slinky Vagabond
Friday Mar 2 7pm GLAMOUR @ CLUB EUROPA
98 - 104 Meserole Ave [corner of Manhattan Ave], Greenpoint, Brooklyn
Tel 718 383 5723 | G train to Nassau | Adm $10 | Doors 7pm | All Ages
BUY TICKETS HERE!
The Effing Bollix: An SPW virgin loses his cherry for the very first time in New York City >>>
Photos: Justin Tranter x 2 and Chest Rockwell + Cole Whittle at Glamour @ Rebel by Harley Sears who flew in from Kansas City to New York specially to photograph SPW | Harley's SPW Blog December
2006
BP
FALLON'S WANG DANG DOODLE INTO 2007
AULD
LANG SYNE: FOUR HOURS AND MORE OF RADIO RAMALAMA!
 Our
multi-tasking fave DJ once again brought Ireland
- and the whole wide world on the web - into the New
Year from the Dublin studios of
the top Irish radio station TodayFM
with his annual sonic extravaganza BP Fallon's Wang
Dang Doodle Into 2007.
It's
been said that Mr Fallon's cultured voice
makes the wings of angels flutter and bad girls turn a pinker
shade of naughty, while the guys… well, they turn the
volume up to 11 on this Auld Lang Syne soundtrack
on the smile dial of the church of aural sects...
In
previous years, BP has played unreleased
tracks by everyone from The
Beatles and The
Stones to Bob Dylan
and John Lennon
to Mick Jones and Courtney
Love. This year among his beloved new and old
grooves our outlaw DJ gave the World Premiere
to four of the Semi
Precious Weapons tracks produced by Tony
Visconti as well as spinning unreleased cuts
by Keith Richards, Pete Doherty
and those Rolling Stones and Dylan.
BP
FALLON'S WANG DANG DOODLE INTO 2007: THE SET LIST >>>
Download
the Wang Dang Doodle Into 2007 jingle
And! From BP Fallon's Wang Dang Doodle Into 2001 Sonic
Archive: Bobby
Gillespie's Primal Jingle
Photo:
BP Fallon spins 'em up by Aodhán Ó Conchubhair
BP FALLON'S WANG DANG DOODLE INTO 2007
AULD LANG SYNE: FOUR HOURS OF RADIO RAMALAMA!
 Our multi-tasking fave DJ once again brings Ireland - and the whole wide world on the web - into the New Year from the Dublin studios of the top Irish radio station TodayFM with his annual sonic extravaganza BP Fallon's Wang Dang Doodle Into 2007.
"I'm honoured" notes our man with the jukebox tan. "And it's such an excellent vibe that the whole boogaloo can be heard live all over the world".
Indeed, when he's on the air listeners to the radio and the web may send txt msgs or emails direct to BP in the studio. "No longer does one sit there wondering if anyone's out there. It's an added pleasure that this is interactive broadcasting".
In previous years, BP has played unreleased tracks by everyone from The Beatles and The Stones to Bob Dylan and John Lennon to Mick Jones and Courtney Love. This year among his beloved new and old grooves our outlaw DJ will include unreleased music from Keith Richards and Pete Doherty - plus the world premiere of the Semi Precious Weapons tracks produced by Tony Visconti!
BP FALLONS WANG DANG DOODLE INTO 2007
TodayFM Sun Dec 31 2006 9 pm till 1am Mon Jan 1 2007 All times are GMT
Download the Wang Dang Doodle Into 2007 jingle
And! From BPF's WDD INTO 2001 Sonic Archive: Bobby Gillespie's Primal Jingle
September 2006
LET THEM EAT CAKE…
DEATH DISCO NYC SUNDAY AFTERNOONS ALL AGES AT THE CAKE SHOP!
 The new season of Death Disco’s Sunday Afternoon All Ages shows kicks off at New York’s Cake Shop this Sunday Sept 10. Cake Shop hosted the last DD Sunday event – starring Franco V And The High Class Elite, Young Lords and The So-So Glos plus DJ Mathilde Hildebrandt – to resounding success.
“Cake Shop’s brilliant” notes DD mainman BP Fallon. “Upstairs there’s one of the hippest little record stores in New York – even the album covers on the wall merit a visit – and there’s the café where you can drink tea or coffee and munch cupcakes all day while listening to the records being spun… and then downstairs where the gigs are and the bands play there’s the live rocking and dancing. It’s perfect”.
Death Disco faves ModRocket – who return to DD direct from recording in LA - will be the resident band for the three Sunday September dates, with our fab foursome of Alice, Alex, Alanna and Sandra being bookended at each show by two more super-vibey combos.
The first gig opens with pre-teen sensations Tiny Masters Of Today – 12 year old Ivan on guitar and his 10 year old sister Ada on lead vocals and bass, joined for this show by their producer Russell Simins of The Jon Spencer Blues Explosion on drums – and climaxes with Used To Be Women, the hot new band led by Derek Stanton the awesome singer/guitarist in Awesome Color who humbly calls the mighty UTBW “another group of hoodlums from Detroit making noise in the city”.
And meanwhile just around the corner, the flagship Death Disco @ The Annex Wednesdays will naturally continue in all their over-age over-the-top glory!
DEATH DISCO NEW YORK SUNDAY AFTERNOON ALL AGES
Sun Sept 10
TINY MASTERS OF TODAY 4pm
MODROCKET 5pm
USED TO BE WOMEN 6pm
Your host and DJ BP FALLON
Every Sunday Afternoon!
Death Disco New York All Ages @ Cake Shop, 152 Ludlow St between Stanton & Rivington, LES, NYC 10002
Doors 3pm – 7pm Adm $5 Tel# 212 253 0036
Photos: Ivan & Ada of Tiny Masters Of Today | Alanna & Sandra & Alice & Alex of ModRocket
by BPF using Fuji Finepix S9500
August
2006
BP
FALLON RETURNS TO IRELAND!
THIS SAT AUG 5 DEATH DISCO OLDCASTLE!
July
2006
Syd
Barrett
1946 - 2006
Shine on, you crazy diamond
BP
DJs WITH BP!
AND
SECRET MACHINES AND MEW COME TOO...
Our
man DJs the two New York area shows by Bloc
Party, on which the Londoners are joined by Brooklyn's
Secret
Machines and Denmark's Mew.
Opening date is Springsteen's old alma mater
The Stone Pony in Ashbury Park,
followed by a huge outdoor show at McCarran Pool
in Brooklyn.
Thurs
July 27
Stone Pony, Ashbury Park,
New Jersey BLOC
PARTY +
MEW
+
BPF
Sat
July 29
McCarran Pool, Brooklyn,
NYC BLOC
PARTY +
SECRET
MACHINES
+
MEW
+
BPF
BP
DJs WITH BP, GLAMDAMMIT!
AND ALL THE CHILDREN BOOGIE...
While remaining firmly rooted in Death Disco, BP Fallon is now spreading his wings to DJ at other events too, have just DJed the Arthur Lee Benefit Concert at New York's Beacon Theatre with Robert Plant, Ian Hunter, Love guitarist Johnny Echols, Nils Lofgren, Ryan Adams, Yo La Tengo and a cast of hundreds.
First off is Glamdammit, where our Special Guest DJ is joined on the decks by spinners Twig The Wonderkid And The Astronettes and DJ Jess from Trash. Thematically with both dancing shoes in the glam camp - or camp glam - expect lots of Bolan & Bowie & Roxy and - gasp! - The Bay City Rollers, while BP will doubtlessly be playing the new cutting-edge shit that's leading the New York garage an' glam explosion: Semi Precious Weapons, Valeze, The Everyothers, ModRocket, Baby Shakes...
Our man then DJs the two New York area Bloc Party shows. Joined by Secret Machines and Mew, opening date is Irving Plaza followed by a huge outdoor show at McCarran Park in Brooklyn.
Sat July 8 GLAMDAMMIT @ Rififi, 332 E 11th Street, NYC. Doors 10pm
Thurs July 27 Irving Plaza NYC with BLOC PARTY + SECRET MACHINES + MEW + BPF
Sat July 29 McCarran Park, Brooklyn, NYC with BLOC PARTY + SECRET MACHINES + MEW + BPF
June
2006
WE'RE
DOING IT FOR LOVE
BPF
ADDED TO NEW YORK ARTHUR LEE BENEFIT
BP
Fallon will DJ the Benefit
Concert for Arthur Lee at The Beacon
Theatre this Friday June 23 to help raise medical
funds for Love
mainman Arthur
who is battling acute limphoblastic leukemia, joining a bill
that includes live sets by Robert
Plant and Ian Hunter - coincidentally
two singers for whom BP was publicist in their previous bands,
namely Led
Zeppelin and Mott The Hoople
- plus Yo La Tengo and original Love
guitarist Johnny Echols.
Leader of the quintessential 60s Californian group Love
whose haunting album Forever Changes is up
there with Blonde On Blonde
and Astral Weeks
and Ramones
as one of the greatest albums of all time, Arthur's
turbulent history includes six years in prison on gun charges...
For The Love Of Arthur continues>>>
April
2006
Now
playing on BP
Fallon's MySpace COUNTRY
GIRL by PRIMAL
SCREAM, live.
Fronted
by our esteemed chum Bobby
Gillespie, Primal Scream are
back on the craic with the current core of the combo completed
by Death Disco
DJ Mani and rehab Throb and
Martin Duffy. What a amazing band of pathfinders
and lunatics, sometimes stumbling and often soaring along
the rock'n'roll road of redemption and damnation, a candle
always somewhere ahead. Country Girl has
the vibe and velocity of The
Faces, a marvellous mandolin solo and in the
banned video our Bobby clad in a natty Nudie
suit that suits him, bejewelled crucifix on his back instead
of a monkey. Are you sure Hank done it this
way?
And!
See
Primal Scream's controversial uncut
and uncensored Country Girl video
here!
WHAM
BAM THANK YOU GLAM!
 BP
Fallon is
the Special Guest DJ at the video launch party for New York
garage glam heroes Semi Precious Weapons,
whose music video is shot by feted filmmakers Andew
Jenks and Jonah
Quickmire Pettigrew.
Our Mr Fallon was one of the architects of
what became known as Glam Rock when he worked
with Marc Bolan
& T.Rex - and seeing the night that's in
it he'll doubtlessly turntable some hot tunes from that glittering
era, from Bolan and Bowie to Brian Eno and Brett Smiley, via
Roxy, Mott, Iggy and Lou... and Lulu doing The Man Who Sold
The World with dear Dame David.
The evening will also feature a live take-no-prisoners performance
by Semi Precious Weapons
and a wild photo exhibition by famed glam designer
and photographer Tommy
Couture.
Sat
April 15 Zenergy
@ The Skyloft, 519 W 36 St, NY NY 10018. Tel# 212 633
1979
Doors 9pm. Adm $10. All
ages show
Video
still: Justin 'Precious' Tranter of Semi-Precious-Weapons
by Tommy Couture, makeup by Jenny Brown
March
2006
THE
DEATH DISCO NEW YORK BRITISH INVASION
FAIRY
TALES IN THE BIG APPLE!
 With
Arctic
Monkeys conquering a few nights earlier at NYC's
Webster Hall, The British Invasion
continued at Death Disco New York with exemplary
performances by UK adventurers The
Fairies, White
Man Kamikaze and DJ Rich
Pack.
London's
four provocative pop punk princesses The Fairies
returned to DD NYC to drive the men [and
women] crazy with lust and a laugh.
Tinky and Tinsel and Twinkle
and Sparkle, they sound like a foul-mouthed
Elastica with a dose of The Slits
but they're even more fun, lining up on stage like some warped
St Trinians-meets-Barbarella
tableau to shake a tailfeather or four and sing their banned
underground classic Pink Socks Rock, with its rousing chorus
of "Lick my clit, kick my clit!" Shouldn't be allowed, really.
"Their
wings are the only angelic thing about The Fairies"
notes BP Fallon >>>Fairies
tales in New York continued >>>
Photos:
The Fairies by BPF using Fuji Finepix S9500 | Davey Kamikaze
by Erik Kragh
ALAN
McGEE DD NYC SURPRISE & SURPRISING DJ SET!
CONFESSIONS
ON THE DEATH DISCO DANCEFLOOR!
 Death
Disco co-founder Alan
McGee jetted into New York from
The SXSW Festival in Austin,
Texas, to do a fantastic and poptastic DJ
set at DD NYC.
The maverick maestro of Britpunk kicked off
daringly with Johnny Cash's spellbinding
reading of Trent Reznor's Hurt
- before getting the jam-packed dancefloor jumping with Hard-Fi
[Cash Machine], Amerie [One Thing]
and Roxy Music [Do The Strand]. In a playful
mood, he led us down Pop Tart Avenue and pulled out excellent
unusual-for-DD choices like Gwen
Stefani [What You Waiting For?], Pink featuring
Scratch [Respect], Beyonce with Jay Z
[Crazy In Love], Destiny's Child [Independent
Women] and even our chum Madonna with Confessions
On A Dancefloor. And everyone went mad for McGee's
menu. Let's dance, indeed!
Alan, smiling benignly at the throbbing throng,
he whipped 'em up into a lather before hanging out awhile
to dig Silver
Rockets, the fine new Country-Noir-meets-Twin-Peaks
combo fronted by ex-Mercury Rev guitarist
Paul Dillon that also contains members of
Oceanographer,
Anorak and Cardinal. And then McGee
was gone, ready to catch a dawn flight to DJ in London
and then on for more get-'em-going spinning at Death
Disco Budapest. What a man.
Photo:
Those Two Bald Celts! DJs BP Fallon & Alan McGee @ DD
NYC Mar 22 2006
February
2006
CORETTA
SCOTT KING
The
First Lady Of Civil Rights
April
27 1927 - Jan 31 2006
Rest
in peace, Mrs King
January
2006
BP
FALLON IN CONVERSATION WITH EAMON DUNPHY: HEAR IT HERE!
 To
round off last year, our vibemaster BP was
the Special Guest on Eamon
Dunphy's Breakfast Show at the
end of December 2005 on Ireland's radio station
News
Talk 106.
For a full hour BP and Eamon
discussed whatever came into their heads or out of their heads
- everything from the state of America to
the state of Pete Doherty - while typically
BP defied the talk station's music rules
and pulled a few records out of his bag.
Controversial broadcaster and author Eamon
is best known to rock fans internationally as the writer of
the very first U2
biography The Unforgettable Fire. "I
regard the man very highly - there's no bullshit about him"
notes BP.
Other celebrated guests featured in this post-Christmas season
were Sinn Féin chief negotiator Martin
McGuinness, troubadour Christy Moore,
soccer pundit Johnny Giles, former Irish
Times editor Conor Brady and Weakest
Link host Anne Robinson.
Hear
BPF on Eamon Dunphy's Breakfast Show now! [requires
RealPlayer - Free
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an mp3 file of the interview! [11.5mb]
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Eamon Dunphy by Donal
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BEHIND THE MUSIC: SLEUTHS SEEK MESSAGES IN LYRICAL BACKSPIN
"Reverse-Play Audio Software Uncovers Smoke,
Satan; A Led Zeppelin Enigma And A Quote From BP Fallon"
- WALL STREET JOURNAL front page story
Monday Jan 9 2006
The Wall Street Journal asks "Are there secret
backwards messages hidden in music?" and in part reports:
"I'm sure it's not intentional," says a spokesman
for Led Zeppelin bassist John Paul
Jones about the alleged satanic reference in Stairway
to Heaven. "And I don't believe they've ever
discussed it."
BP
Fallon, who worked as Led Zeppelin's
publicist during its 1970s heyday, added in an email message:
"Play anything backwards, and you'll find something."
He suggested that the mysterious backward lyric might actually
be "Oh, here's to my sweaty satin," a reference
to guitarist Jimmy
Page's trousers!
Jeff
Milner's Backmasking Site
HOWLING
FOR MY BABY
ALLEN GINSBERG’S 50th HOWL
 In
celebration of the 50th Anniversary of the
first public reading of Allen
Ginsberg's groundbreaking poem Howl,
a motley crew of poets, artists and angelheaded hipsters burning
for the ancient heavenly connection marked the occasion by
gathering together to read from Ginsberg’s
work in aid of charity.
Taking
part in the Dublin festivities and reading
from Ginsberg’s cannon were poets Theo
Dorgan, Gabriel Rosenstock, Noel
Sweeney, Dermod Moore and Tony
Curtis plus comedian Tommy Tiernan
- who read the whole of Howl and its footnotes
to exhilarating effect - Labour Party politician Fergus
Finlay, writer and social activist Eamon
McCann, editor of Hot Press Niall Stokes,
songwriter and singer Hazel O’Connor
and broadcaster and writer Eamon Dunphy.
And BP Fallon read Ginsberg’s
Father Death Blues.
Compered
by Myles Dungan from RTE Radio 1's
Rattlebag programme, the Howl event
- the first of many across the world - was in aid of the Dublin
branch of Down
Syndrome Ireland to raise funds for speech therapy
for children with Down Syndrome. It was completely sold out.
50th
ANNIVERSARY OF HOWL
THURSDAY JAN 5 The Sugar Club, Leeson Street, Dublin,
Ireland. Doors 8pm. Tickets E25. SOLD OUT
REHAB
DUBLIN DEBUT!
SHANE MACGOWAN & BP FALLON SOCK IT TO ‘EM!
 Shane
MacGowan dressed in black like some benign
Dickensian character apparitions onto the Rehab
stage as BP Fallon’s decks are exploding
with bits of Bowie. It's BP's DB
Goes To Rehab mashup and the fiesty full-voiced audience,
they're roaring along with ol' Ziggy, screaming
"Oh, don' lean on me man cos y'can' afford the ticket,
I'm back from Suffragette City!" as
BP gleefully fucks with the faders. Yup, a total blam blam.
It
had started off great – queues from the door all down
the quays, a jam-packed house full of vibey people –
and had gotten even better.
BP
- the self-effacing maestro MC DJ in his Bob
Dylan Subterranean Homesick Blues t shirt doubtlessly
scored in some dodgy dive in the West Village
– he’d wound the throng up into a foaming lather
with everything from Artic Monkeys and Von
Iva to Towers Of London and Morningwood
via twelve-inchers from PIL and The
Stones – Rise and Miss
You, fact fans – and everyone going completely
King Kong to The Isley Brother’s roof-raising
testifyer Shout following The
Beatles adrenaliser Twist And Shout.
“Well, shake it up baby…” and “We-e-e-e-e-e-e-ell,
you know you make me wanna shout, kick my heels up an’
shout throw my hands up an’ shout throw my head back
an’ shout come on now!” and yes they do, everyone
at the front, at the back, on the stairs, up in the balcony,
all taken by the music dancing to some manic choir from the
bright side of the tracks. It's like out of a movie.
“Say that you love me!” Magic, baby.
Now
Shane
MacGowan has checked himself into Rehab
to DJ, having come here directly from singing with The
Pogues to 8,500 ecstatic fans at The Point.
 
Shane,
all throughout his 1 hour 40 minute DJ set, admirers clamber
up onto the Rehab stage to shake his hand
or thrust a bit of paper at him to sign. When he can't find
a handy pen, he uses a handy ciggie to burn his mark. Rehab's
already rockin' and Shane's very presence
generates an even higher energy upsurge. The celebrated Ronnie
Drew - who sang The Irish Rover with
Shane at The Point - Ronnie, he says of BP
Fallon, "He gives spirit". Well, Shane
gives spirit too, mighty stuff. And not just the
stuff you can drink. What
Shane did next>>>
Photos: Shane, Shane MacGowan & BP Fallon by ShowBizIreland | Shane '40 Shades Of Green Smoke' MacGowan by BP using Fuji Finepix S9500
 MADE
IN THE UK: THE MUSIC OF ATTITUDE 1977-1983
BP
Fallon is one of the artists pictured in the new
book Made In The UK: The Music Of Attitude 1977-1983
by feted British photographer Janette Beckman.
In this celebratory sociological document, photographs of
the contrasting youth movements of punk, mod, skinhead, 2-Tone
and quiffed-up Teddy boys jostle alongside portraits of pop
culture icons like John Lydon, Joe
Strummer, Pete Townsend and Siouxsie
Sioux.
Peppered with quotes from Strummer, Lydon, Madness,
The Specials’ Jerry Dammers, Boy
George and Paul Weller, this
tremendous tome boasts a foreword by fashion designer Paul
Smith and incisive essays by Vivien Goldman
and Paolo Hewitt. Exemplary.
See
some shots from the book>>>
WILSON
PICKETT R.I.P
March
18 1941 - Jan 19 2006
"I'm
gonna wait till the midnight hour..."
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