2009 | 2007 | 2006 |2005 | 2004 | 2003 | 2001 | First 10 Death Discos   December 2008 BP FALLON GETS BOOKED RONNIE DREW & LED ZEPPELIN BP Fallon contributes to the brilliant new book Ronnie [Penguin Books]. The book started as Ronnie Drew's own autobiography but sadly was unfinished - Ronnie died in August - so now as well as Ronnie telling his own uplifting story with impeccable style we also see him through the tender eyes of friends like BP plus Michael Kane who worked with him as a night telephonist, John Sheahan of The Dubliners, his late-life Sancho Panza guitarist Mike Hanrahan and lauded actor Niall Tobin - all who have written entertaining and heartwarming pieces for the book . BP Fallon called Ronnie Drew "The greatest living Irishman". Bono called him "The king of Ireland". In this uplifting book, BP writes of 'Ronnie Drew's most surreal gigs ever' - when to enormous acclaim Ronnie DJed with BP at Death Disco parties in New York and Dublin, illustrated with photographs by Barbara Lindberg. BP's essay is a hoot - and very moving, too, another insight into this special man. Some of BP's own photography also appears in the book. And under a 1967 photograph captioned 'Luke and Ronnie with BP Fallon', Ronnie's son Phelin comments on BP "He's a real gentle guy. My dad always like people who were just really gentle". And a somewhat different type of music... our rock'n'roll voyager Mr Fallon is much-quoted in Mick Wall's magnum opus Led Zeppelin biography When Giants Walked The Earth [Orion Books]. And BP joins Robert Plant, John Paul Jones, Jeff Beck and all in being quoted in the January 2009 Uncut Magazine cover story on Jimmy Page. And in the Editorial, Allan Jones tells a strange yarn about BP and a mysterious wraith... WE LIKE TO WATCH   Led Zeppelin with LZ publicist BP Fallon in 1973 aboard their private plane Starship [rare out-take from The Song Remains The Same] BP FALLON'S NEW YEAR'S EVE WANG DANG DOODLE INTO 2009 RING THEM BELLS: FOUR HOURS OF LIVE RADIO RAMALAMA! Our 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 live sonic extravaganza BP Fallon's Wang Dang Doodle Into 2009. Indeed, when he's on the air listeners to the radio and the web can send txt msgs or emails direct to BP in the studio. "One doesn't sit there wondering if anyone's out there listening! It's an added bonus that this is interactive broadcasting". "It's a groove to be doing this live from my hometown Dublin" adds our man with the jukebox tan, "while every week from wherever I am I do my Wang Dang Doodle show which is available 24/7 on BreakThruRadio. And it's a brill vibe that both boogaloos can be heard not just in Ireland or America but all over the world. Global, baby!" Listenership for BP Fallon's Wang Dang Doodle on BreakThruRadio is currently clocking in at 7 million per show! And meanwhile from Dublin on TodayFM we's rockin' too! Photo: BPF by Radek. Mr Fallon's Derby by Arnold Hatters NYC BP FALLONS NEW YEAR'S EVE WANG DANG DOODLE INTO 2009 TodayFM Wednesday Dec 31 2008 9pm till 1am Mon Jan 1 2009 All times GMT Hear it live here! September 2008 Ronnie Drew RIP The Greatest Living Irishman Died Dublin Saturday August 16 2008 at 2pm God Bless Ronnie and Deirdre Drew Photos: DJs BP Fallon & Ronnie Drew @ Death Disco New York St Patrick's Day 2004 by Jaime Coon | Ronnie & BP @ Death Disco Dublin XXXmas Party 2004 by Barbara Lindberg | Ronnie & BP @ Death Disco Dublin July 2005 by Barbara Lindberg Luke Kelly, BP Fallon & Ronnie Drew Dublin 1967 by Tom Collins | Jaime Coon & Ronnie Drew @ Death Disco New York St Patrick's Day 2004 by BP Fallon June 2008 BP FALLON ON PODGE & RODGE! HIGHEST VIEWING FIGURES EVER!"THEY'RE GENIUS" SAYS BP SURREAL IRISH TV LUNACY NOW ON YouTube! BP Fallon has done the strangest television appearance of his career so far, being interviewed by a pair of puppets on Irish TV. In the celebrated line of such cutting-edge celebrities as Sinead O'Connor and Shane MacGowan, BP travelled to Ballydung Manor to be the special guest on the 100th edition of 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 - but this time they were largely respectful and clearly genuinely fascinated by BP's adventures in music, asking him about everything from working at The Beatles' Apple Records and appearing on Top Of The Pops with John Lennon to his best-selling books on U2 and Boyzone to his acclaimed photographic work. The programme had the highest viewing figures ever of any Podge & Rodge show. Says BP "I was a big Podge & Rodge fan before - I wouldn't have gone on their show if I didn't dig them - but having met them I've got to say that they're genius. Absolutely brilliant!" It was 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 sung the song that was 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 now be seen on YouTube! What a hoot! Podge & Rodge with BP Fallon Podge & Rodge with Sinead O'Connor Podge & Rodge with Shane MacGowan Special thanks to Marion Cullen & Trevor Keegan & Robert Lanigan | Shimmy Marcus Photos [above]: Podge & Rodge with BPF by Shimmy Marcus using Fuji FinePix 9500 | Screen grab by shift apple 3     God Bless Bo Diddley Dec 30 1928 - June 2 2008 The Originator     February 2008 SEMI PRECIOUS WEAPONS 'BEST NEW YORK BAND' - VILLAGE VOICE READERS POLL "THE MOST IMPORTANT BAND IN AMERICA" - ALAN McGEE TRIUMPHS IN LONDON & PARIS! KATE BOOGIES! Hot on the heels of being voted 'Best New York Band' in the Village Voice Readers Poll, Semi Precious Weapons arrived in the UK for their first-ever London shows with Alan McGee describing them in The Guardian as "the most important band in America" Blowing minds at sold-out shows at the hippest clubs in London - The Boogaloo in Highgate, The Queen Is Dead in London's West End and The Old Blue Last in Shoreditch - when new fan Kate Moss was spotted cheering on SPW at Death Disco in Notting Hill Gate the British talboids went into a frenzy. The Daily Mirror pictured the arrival of "a windswept Moss" and Vogue UK wrote of SPW's "illicit can't-help-but-dance-to-it camp rock... unashedly crass and deliciously animated and successfully won themselves a fan in the supermodel" while Metro subtly screamed "Moss boogies with 6ft bisexual" Classic Rock magazine was even more graphic, writing of "a riot of fishnets and Sex Pistols guitars, an apocalyptic makeout scene starring drag queens, hooker-waitresses, king-fu fighters and, quite possibly, your girlfriend" The reports in The Sunday Times, The Independent [UK], NME and The NY Times were less frenetic, focusing on the rise of SPW. Having conquered England with their kunty rock'n'roll ditties, our electric warriors nipped over to Paris to dispense French kisses sonically and visually in the beautiful temple of music La Fleche D'Or where the Parisiennes - always hip to the new vibe, especialy when it looks so amazing too - went completely mad for a most stunning rock'n'roll show. Fantastique! Photos: Justin Tranter and Kate Moss shake a tailfeather at Death Disco London. SPW do handstands and The Eiffel Tower in Paris France. All pix by BPF using Fuji FinePix 9500 See amazing photos by lib-lab SPW Live In London See amazing photos by Robert Gil SPW Live In Paris In My Fist There's A Song, Do You Wanna Sing Along? 2008 Is Winking And All The World's A Sage January 2008 BP FALLON'S WANG DANG DOODLE INTO 2008 RING THEM BELLS: FOUR HOURS 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 2008. Indeed, when he was on the air listeners to the radio and the web could 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". "It was a gas to be doing this live from my hometown Dublin" notes our man with the jukebox tan, "while every week in New York I do my Wang Dang Doodle show which is available 24/7 on BreakThruRadio. And it's a brill vibe that both boogaloos can be heard not just in Ireland or America but all over the world. Global, baby!". With its seven million listeners, BreakThruRadio is the most successful web radio station on the planet and BP Fallon's Wang Dang Doodle is one of the station's most popular shows. And meanwhile from Dublin on TodayFM we had... BP FALLONS WANG DANG DOODLE INTO 2008 TodayFM Monday Dec 31 2007 9pm till 1am Mon Jan 1 2008 All times GMT   2009 | 2007 | 2006 | 2005 | 2004 | 2003 | 2001 | First 10 Death Discos top^