BP Fallon & Phil Lynott, Malahide Castle Dublin March 1st 1983. Photography by Eve Holmes

Here’s a flashback to a year ago – BP Fallon & Dave Fanning talking to Katherine Thomas live on RTE Radio1 Jan 3rd 2011, discussing the life and times of their friend Phil
BP Fallon & Dave Fanning on Phil Lynott

Phil Lynott August 20th 1949 – January 4th 1986. Bless you, Phil.

Cup of tea? BP Fallon & Phil Lynott in Malahide Castle Dublin March 1st 1983. Photography by Eve Holmes

“I believe in Philip Lynott…” BP Fallon recites at The 25th Vibe For Philo, Dublin January 4th 2001. Photography by Ruth Medjber

A bunch more 25th Vibe For Philo pix on BP Fallon’s Flickr

BP Fallon talks to Barry Egan on Barry’s Radio Nova programme tonight (Sunday) at 7pm to celebrate the BP Fallon & The Hot Sprockets show in Dublin on Tuesday.

Today at 7pm ie 19.00 GMT gobally
ie New York 2pm, Los Angeles 11 pm etc:
Hear ‘BP Fallon Interview By Barry Egan’ live on Radio Nova here

With Barry Egan‘s famous probing in-depth questioning – honed by two decades writing for Ireland’s Sunday Independent plus Britain’s the NME and US magazine Creem – expect the unexpected when he sits down with BP Fallon in front of the Radio Nova microphone.

Previous guests on Barry’s show include Roger Waters, The Sex Pistols and Paul Weller.

The eircom ad. Photography by Peter Murnaghan

What caught our eye was how eircom – without a bye-your-leave or a nod in this direction – have ‘adapted’ our Death Disco skull-and-headphones logo on the girl’s t shirt. Do we have a patent on all skulls and headphones? No. But look at the ad… eircom have basically drawn a pair of shades over their version of our DD logo.

BP Fallon and Robert Plant at the the benefit concert for Arthur Lee, bless him, at The Beacon Theatre NYC June 24th 2006. Robert sang. BP DJed – in non-eircom Death Disco t shirt. Photography by Bob Gruen.

It’s flattering to have one’s work – one’s art, one’s images, one’s logos – recognised by the mainstream.

It’s disconcerting how this acceptance of something that was once underground and pure and based around music and having a good time is now warped magnetic eye candy for a corporation flogging telephones by any means possible.

Then again… who are we to stand in the way of pop culture influences?

Or… should we sue ‘em?

Camille Corazón in her Death Disco t shirt.
Life’s a gas.

And while we’re at it…

Death Disco badges w/ thanks to Barney in Dublin and Joly In New York

Oh, it’s simply a small photograph but it’s in there – BP Fallon at Electric Picnic in Ireland 2009.

“There’s something poetic in having your picture in between The Wailers and Ozzy Osbourne” notes BP.

Jimmy Page & BP Fallon on Starship 1973 by & © Bob Gruen

Fallon and Gruen first met in 1973 when Bob joined Led Zeppelin and their self-styled Entertainments Manager on the band’s private airliner Starship, flying with them from New York to a Zeppelin concert in Philadelphia and back.

They’ve been friends ever since – with BP DJing Bob’s famous birthday parties in New York and even bringing Bob over to MindField at Electric Picnic in Ireland for the esteemed Mr Gruen to give an illustrated talk on his illustrious life as a rock’n'roll photographer.

For your visual delectation and edification, some more shots from Bob Gruen’s stunning new book:

Led Zeppelin in front of Starship 1973 by & © Bob Gruen.
“Led Zeppelin and their airplane epitomize the excesses of the 70s” – BG

Elvis, New York Hilton press conference NYC 1972 by & © Bob Gruen

Debbie Harry NYC 1976 by & © Bob Gruen. Debbie writes the introduction to Bob’s book. “The car had been upside down on Sixth Avenue for several days when we walked by it, but Debbie made it her car wreck” – BG

The cover of Rock Seen: Paul Simenon & Joe Strummer of The Clash
by & © Bob Gruen

Buy Rock Seen by Bob Gruen here

And while we’re grooving on Gruen…

BP Fallon & His Bandits 2011 by Bob Gruen: Aaron Lee Tasjan guitar, BPF vox, Mark Stepro drums & Nigel Harrison bass

The musical collective Operation Juliet 2011 by Bob Gruen: Aaron Lee Tasjan guitar, Mark Stepro drums, BP Fallon vox, Teddy Purvay bass & Sean Lennon guitar

BP Fallon & Bob Gruen in Texas 2011 by Kate Jurkiewicz

BP Fallon & The Hot Sprockets – with Dylan lurking stylishly on the very left – by Peter Pureheart.

BP Fallon singing his songs with Dublin’s Hot Sprockets for the first time ever, talking with Bob Geldof in MindField probably about whatever comes into their heads, a speedy recitation… herewith the programme:

Friday 10:30pm @ Salty Dog
BP Fallon & The Hot Sprockets (a little taste after The Hot Sprockets have played). Some sonic foreplay before the BP & Sprockets full set on Sunday night @ MindField

Sunday 3:00pm @ Ignite in the MindField area
BP Fallon kicks off this year’s Ignite with a five minute recitation. Hit, git and split.

Bob Geldof & BP by Jennifer Andrada. Annie Tierney & BP by Kay Gourley.

Sunday 5.00pm @ MindField in the Leviathan tent
Bob Geldof and BP Fallon and – from Tieranniesaur – Annie Tierney discuss the future of the future and music, moderated by David McWilliams. This’ll be very vibey and probably fiercely irreverent.

Sunday 8:00pm @ Mindfield Finale Party in the Leviathan tent
BP Fallon & The Hot Sprockets (full set). The rock’n'roll poet gets choogling backed by the blueswailin’ honeyskippin’ cats from the Southside delta of Dublin. We can’t help it – Sprocket to me, baby!

BP on The Hot Sprockets: “I love their ‘Honeyskippin’ album and went to meet them in Dublin at their rehearsal space and there on the walls are their posters – Son House, Neil Young, Bob Dylan, The Raconteurs, Blind Willie McTell, John Lee Hooker and Led Zeppelin. I thought ‘That’ll do!’”

Other bands playing Electric Picnic
Arcade Fire – Pulp – The Chemical Brothers – Big Audio Dynamite – Interpol – PJ Harvey – Beirut – Mogwai – Underworld – The Family Stone – Sinéad O’Connor – Public Enemy – Jimmy Cliff – Joan As Policewoman – Death In Vegas – Toots And The Maytals – The Mighty Stef – Sweet Jane – Edward Sharpe & The Magnetic Zeros – The Black Angels and a million more!

The Salty Dog stage in the woods before the deluge, by BP Fallon. We jest you not!

Some tickets still available here

BP Fallon in The Matt Cooper Interview (22mins)
TodayFM August 26th 2011

In an interview that is as far-out as it is deep, BP Fallon talks to Matt Cooper about New York, about Ireland, happiness, the afterlife, secrets, drinks and drugs, God, rock’n'roll, living on a beach, making music, Electric Picnic, BP Fallon & His Bandits, U2… and having children.

Twitter:
Dylan Haskins diylan
Amazing. @BPFallon reasoning that you can roll a joint on a record but not on an MP3 on The Last Word.

Half of BP Fallon & Dave Fanning by BP

BP Fallon interviewed by Dave Fanning (12.53) RTE 2FM August 27th 2011

BP talks to Dave about MindField at Electric Picnic this weekend with Bob Geldof, about the state of record companies, about BP Fallon & His Bandits… and, under Dave’s determined questioning, admits to being a guest and DJing at that wedding.

Angle #1: BP Fallon before The Kills at Terminal 5 NYC August 8th 2011 by Jen Maler

Angle #2: BP Fallon before The Kills by Dana (Distortion) Yavin/Brooklyn Vegan

Reports Brooklyn Vegan: “Though not on the bill, BP Fallon, who played Escape To NY over the weekend, made a surprise appearance at the Terminal 5 shows…”
More Brooklyn Vegan review of The Kills show Monday August 8th 2011 plus amazing pix

Twitter:
Eric Odioso ecodios
@thirdmanrecords BP Fallon just killed it on stage at Terminal 5. Amazing.

Barbara S peelslowlysee
BP Fallon making T5 a whole lot less shitty.

Makar MakarMusic
@bpfallon you were amazing last night at The Kills show, great poem! brought tears to our eyes!

The next night at The Kills show, BP Fallon was joined on stage at New York’s Terminal 5 by Aaron Lee Tasjan – ace guitarist in BP Fallon & His Bandits.

Reports sentimentalistmag.com:
“A bowler-topped BP Fallon, founder of the internationally renowned Death Disco parties and a punk cause célèbre in his own right, provided the perfect introduction to his friends The Kills’ set with his ‘one and a half songs’, performed with one of his Bandits on angsty guitar. ‘I Believe in Elvis Presley’, part spoken word, part litany in barren blues, is a song for which Fallon was recently flown to Nashville to record in Jack White’s studio. In tonight’s rendition, Fallon listed a few of his favorite things, from hallucinogens to LSD to Oscar Wilde and Elvis Presley, topping it off with, yes, The Kills”.
More sentimentalistmag.com review of The Kills show Tuesday August 9th 2011 plus cool pix

Angle #3: BP Fallon before The Kills by Gregg Greenwood

Bob Geldof and BP Fallon speak on a panel together at MindField at Ireland’s prestigious arts and music festival Electric Picnic. The subject is the future of the future – and the music therein. Moderator is David McWilliams. Scheduled time is Sunday afternoon Sept 4th at 3.30pm in EP’s MindField area.

Geldof and Fallon go back together seemingly forever. BP was publicist to The Boomtown Rats when the Irish group were launched in Britain in 1977 and he and the band’s singer have remained firm friends ever since.

BP Fallon & Jeff Dexter & Marc Bolan & Boomtown Rats Johnnie Fingers & Bob Geldof 1977 outside the ‘Marc’ tv studios in Manchester. The Rats were guesting on Marc’s show – their first-ever British tv appearance. Photography by Kevin Cummins

Bob Geldof London 2011 by BP Fallon

Bob Geldof photographs BP Fallon Texas 2011
photographed by Cameron Jordan

“Mind your mind and your mind will mind you” – BPF x

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Writes Bill Kates:
“Sssh. A track from that rarest of U2 discs, ‘Zoo Radio’, their official radio show released only to radio stations by Island Records and the Album Network in 1992, produced by yours truly, hosted by BP Fallon, longtime friend to U2 and the DJ at their live shows at the time. This section features clips from a pre-’South Park’ Primus with the Zoo Radio Theme, Michael Franti and the Disposable Heros of HipHopcracy, Mick Jones and B.A.D, Chuck D and Flavor Flav from Public Enemy… I post this as an historic record of a radio show which I produced, for educational purposes only, and make no profit by doing so. All Rights Reserved for the short music clips by the respective owners of those copyrights. No infringement is intended”.

Fact fans factoid: ‘Zoo Radio’ was produced & written by the esteemed Bill Kates & the less esteemed Zoo TV tour DJ Mr Fallon – who also hosted the show, doing skits with Bono, talking about Elvis and Marilyn and asking about the most famous man in the world. Chuck D here is particularly brilliant – and additionally, most elucidating about Elvis.

Zoo Radio CD cover 1992

Roy Harper talking to editor Allan Jones in ‘Editor’s Letters’ in the current Uncut magazine:

“At the time, BP Fallon was doing my PR. He knew there hadn’t been a diagnosis, but he’d been with me when the doctors asked what I’d recently been up to that might have made me ill, and I told them I’d tried to bring a still-born lamb back to life by cupping my hands around its mouth and blowing into them. I actually never touched the lamb at all, but in Fallon’s version of events I’d ended up in hospital after giving mouth-to-mouth resuscitation to a sheep.

“This was the story that went out to a ludicrous number of newspapers. Suddenly I’m president of The North-East Lancashire Sheep Shaggers Association. For years, it was the only thing people wanted to talk about, how I nearly died after kissing a sheep. I spent years trying to explain what had happened and in the end just gave up and went along with it. I mean, why not?”

Double Trouble: BP Fallon & Roy Harper in Ålesund, Norway 1975. BP’s snakeskin jacket a present from Steve Marriott, bless him. Photography by Steinar Remme.

Double Bubble: Roy Harper not with a sheep, Continental Hyatt House West Hollywood June 1973 during a Led Zeppelin tour. Photography by
BP Fallon who took some of the shots below – as did Roy Harper:

Led Zeppelin ‘Physical Graffiti’ inner sleeve (1975). Jimmy Page with bandaged left hand and champagne glass in the right and John Bonham and Robert Plant ascloseasthis in a limo, photography by BP Fallon.

Read the complete Allan Jones’ ‘Editor’s Letters’ plus ‘Roy Harper: a candid interview with the mercurial singer, who’s 70 this month’ in Uncut.

The End?

Melody Maker July 12 1975. 12p weekly 60c in USA.

SEE! More fun & frolics! BP Fallon and Sable Starr swap clothes LA 1973, photography by Roy Harper x

It’s Bob Dylan’s 70th Birthday today. To pay honour to this special occasion, we present this previously-unpublished story.

THE TALE OF BOB DYLAN & JOHNNY THUNDERS & SID & VAN
by BP Fallon
Slane Castle, County Meath, Ireland 1984… and beyond
Written NYC July 15/16th 2003

1984 and the Orwellian seer Bob Dylan. Chinwagging with The Big Zee in his trailer before the gig, him asking you ’bout that guitar-toting buzzard Johnny Thunders who you’d introduced him to at a Link Wray show in London some six or seven years before. Dylan had been kinda startled as Johnny reached out for Bob’s wet fish handshake. Said he’d never heard of The New York Dolls, was more interested in where he could get a new coat.

Sid Vicious’ Nancy wobbled up, tits hanging out and eyes closing down. This apparition heaves itself onto Dylan’s skinny bosom, she a sloppy floppy messy deadweight bodybag of mascaraed custard landing heavily onto the poet’s ribcage unprotected by Dylan’s tatty old leather coat that he’s had for ages. Dylan winces.

“Sex!” this clinging eyeshadowed amoeba blurts out to The Voice Of A Generation who twitches like he’s stuck outside of Mobile with the Memphis blues again and as he tries to free himself of this snaily woman he shakes his shoulders, Bob Dylan the frazzle-haired and frazzled creaky old rumba dancer at the YMCA with a junkie on his back.

You explain to Bob that Sex is the clothes shop run by Vivienne Westwood and her partner, the wideboy rock’n'roll manager Malcolm McClaren. “They sell coats and stuff, bondage gear”. Bob perks up perceptively. “Rubber stuff?” he queries. “Malcolm managed the Sex Pistols” you soothe. On cue, The Voice Of Degeneration shrills out like a petulant lost baby seal. “Nance-yyy!” It’s Sid, calling out for his monkey minder and her mind-numbing medicine.

Later that night Sid asks you to be his manager. “Malcolm’s your manager” you point out. Sid had an expedient way to get out of his contract. “I’ll cut his fuckin’ throat”, chortle chortle snivel snot, wipe nose on leather jacket sleeve. At least Sid was polite enough to wipe his dribbling nose on his own leather jacket. You, you’re already managing Johnny Thunders – full-on too much JT junkie bizness, a true-blood Noo Yoik rock’n'roller as magic as Gene Vincent Meets Keef Richards, turning himself to shit with smack.

Johnny and Sid have already played live at The Speakeasy as The Living Dead. Well, Sid climbed up onto Johnny’s stage and stumbled off again. Now they want to call their group The Junkies. Things like that could do your head in. I don’t think Bob Dylan ever got his new coat. The NME had a photo of me’n'Bawb at the Link Wray gig. What can you do?

So now we’re back at Slane watching Paul Brady honoured to show this gnarled lizard how to play The Lakes Of Ponchatrain in this crappy trailer by the banks of the Boyne. Bob does just fine, fumbles and mumbles and shy ‘Aw shucks’ cowpoke grin as his long fingernails scratch at an acoustic guitar.

Now Bob is out in the sunlight by the Boyne’s dancing waters, fondly recalling Liam Clancy and Tommy Makem and Liam’s brothers and the friendship they’d bestowed on him when he first arrived in New York, the huge influence they’d had on him, eulogising The Clancy Brothers as film cameras capture the bashful bard paying tribute to his back pages. The filming, it’s for a Clancy Brothers documentary.

And now you’re standing on the side of the stage with Patsy watching Bob Dylan and his band rockin’ out like electric methedrine with lumps in it and there’s Bono and Ali taking it all in too.

Van Morrison shuffles up to where we’re standing, picks up an acoustic guitar, puts it down, looks grumpy. You look at Bono and he looks at you and the vibe is ‘Aw, fuck, doesn’t look like Van will sing with Dylan now’. But of course Van does, the ornery bastard, goes on and has Dylan singing with him on Van’s own Tupelo Honey, the two voices clashing and meshing and dancing around each other like refreshed lovers probing. The Goat On The Barbed Wire Fence and The Mighty Lion’s Roar are now singing Bob’s It’s All Over Now Baby Blue together and untogether and it’s poetry emotion.

“Take what you have gathered from coincidence…” You know a couple of guys in Dylan’s combo. That’s why you and your girl are here at Slane in such an exulted viewpoint. You trip over a wire causing the PA to stab out a sharp metallic crackle and Dylan jumps back from his mic all shook up and you put on your best ‘What, me?’ face and hide behind Patsy.

There’s Mick Taylor from The Stones twanging majestically, his guitar like liquid mercury. And over there, the keyboards swirl from the fingers of another dear chum from the rock’n'roll daze, this lovely grinning diamond Ian MacLagan, he from The Small Faces/Faces/Stones and more. He wrote about this special day and this night-until-dawn in his book All The Rage, Mac did, this very last night of this European tour.

Ah, yes. Maybe it’s odd but you feel proud of these guys as they play behind Bob Dylan. It’s very warming. Many rivers to cross and they’ve burnt a few bridges, come out from the storm to find the blessed chalice now sometimes free from harm. Instant calmer’s gonna get you. And His Master’s Voice, it’s wheezy and raspy and magic and sinewy like a snake from the Book Of Isiah, curling around Van’s magnificent full-chested roar of redemption. “She’s as sweet as Tupelo honey” indeed. Perfect.

-by & © BP Fallon 2003

Patsy Dennehy & BP Fallon & Bob Dylan at Slane Castle 1984.
Photography by Nutan Photographic

Van Morrison & Bob Dylan at Slane Castle 1984 by Sean Hennessy

BP Fallon & Bob Dylan at Slane Castle 1984 by Larry ‘Ratso’ Sloman

BP Fallon & Johnny Thunders at The New Inn, Dublin April 1990
by Paul Murphy

“Thunder on the mountain and there’s fires on the moon
A ruckus in the alley and the sun will be here soon
Today’s the day where I’m gonna grab my trombone and blow
Well, there’s hot stuff here and it’s everywhere I go…”
-Bob Dylan, Thunder On The Mountain

In loving memory of Johnny Thunders and of Kevin Dunne who loved Bob and of all who sail ahead of us x

BP Fallon cemented his continuing relationship with The Kills when he made a surprise guest appearance at The Kills’ New York show at Terminal 5.

Rock’n'Roll Poet: BP Fallon recites at Terminal 5 NYC by Dana (Distorton) Yavin/Brooklyn Vegan

Walking on stage unannounced just before Jamie Hince and Alison Mosshart played their powerful set, BP stilled the delighted audience to perform a spoken word reading that kicked off with part of ‘Fame #9′ and lead into The Viceroy Of Verbal setting out his rock’n'roll credo in ‘I Believe In Elvis Presley’.

It was the most explosive and interactive solo performance by our sonic poet so far, with the capacity 3,200-people audience enthusiastically cheering lines like “I believe in John Lennon” – altered from the more oblique “I believe in Dr Winston” – and, good Lord, “I believe in marijuana”.

Taken by the spirit, our Mr Fallon ended up crouched across the lip of the stage like a cross between Albert Einstein and Gene Vincent. Magic.

BP Fallon and Alison Mosshart met in 2002 at Death Disco in London when he was DJing there with Courtney Love. Since then BP has DJed on Kills dates in America, England and Ireland – but this was the first time he’d given a spoken word performance at a Kills show.

BP’s previous spoken word show in America was with The Greenhornes at New York’s Bowery Ballroom.

With thanks to Jamie & Alison and their vibey team, with particular thanks to Matt Pollock.

The Kills Alison Mosshart & Jamie Hince at Terminal 5 NYC by BP Fallon

Alison by BP

‘The Last Goodbye’ by BP Fallon

Jamie Hince & fans by BP Fallon

The backdrop to this all: The Kills stage backdrop photographed by BP Fallon

The Shadow Of Your Simile: Shimmy Marcus & BP Fallon by BP Fallon

BP Fallon and Gloria Jones had not seen each other since before the death of Marc Bolan in 1977. Their emotional meeting thirty-three years later at the Flamin’ Groovies show in New York was sensitively captured by drummer/pop culturist Tony Mann. Gloria, mother of Marc’s son Rolan, was Marc Bolan’s girlfriend from 1973 until Marc’s tragic death when the Mini that Gloria was driving skidded into a tree; Gloria nearly died too.

The last time BP Fallon and Gloria Jones saw The Flamin’ Groovies was with Marc Bolan – when the Groovies rolled into London from America on July 4th 1976 to play at The Roundhouse supported by this magnificent new noise out of New York called the Ramones… and the world was never the same again.

The Yanks, those boys from Queens, meet their Godfather Of Punk: Ramones meet Marc Bolan London 1977 by Richard Young. BP Fallon, who’d by then toured twice with the Ramones – first with The Boomtown Rats and Talking Heads and then with Snips – introduced Marc to Johnny, Joey and Tommy Ramone. Dee Dee was in the toilet with Sid.

An exemplary musician and singer and song-writer, Gloria Jones played clavinet and sang backing vocals with T.Rex through five albums and recorded with Marc Bolan under her own name too. And way before meeting Marc, in 1964 in America Gloria had recorded the original of Tainted Love before signing to Motown where she produced and wrote songs for The Jackson 5, The Four Tops, The Surpemes, Marvin Gaye and Diana Ross – plus the classic Grammy-nominated If I Were Your Woman by Gladys Knight & The Pips. Additionally, she recorded with everyone from Ry Cooder to Joe Cocker and even sang on Neil Young’s first solo album. An astounding talent and a wonderful lady, both then and now.

Gloria Jones & Siouxsie And The Banshees manager Nils Stevenson & Marc Bolan & BP Fallon & Sex Pistol Paul Cook choogling to Johnny Thunders & The Heartbreakers at The Music Machine London 1976. Photography by Ray Stevenson.

Today Gloria Jones lives in West Africa where she runs The Light Of Love Foundation, dedicated to the memory of Marc Bolan. They already have a music school for children in Makeni, Sierra Leone – The Marc Bolan School Of Music & Film – in a community that is just getting electricity. The classrooms have been donated by a local church. They are now opening a second school in a neighbouring community – The Marc Bolan School Of The Arts – which will include fashion and fine art. Here’s a video of some of the students:

Gloria Jones – Tainted Love (1964). The song that launched 10,000 dances and had Gloria crowned The Queen Of Northern Soul…

Gloria Jones – Heartbeat (1965). Young Gloria testifies!

Video: Marc Bolan & Gloria Jones – To Know You In To Love You (1977). Marc camp and lazy-river miming, Gloria gorgeous. Pink smoke a go go and lovely Marc guitar solo. Very warm vibes.

Marc Bolan & Gloria Jones

Gloria

Time waits for no-one: BP Fallon – as Old Father Time –
and Marc Bolan, London 1970. Photography by Spud Murphy

The Marc Bolan School Of Music & Film in Makeni, Sierra Leone

With love xxx

Adam Green and Macauley Culkin and Cory Kennedy on the high seas in The Wrong Ferarri

Adam Green’s film The Wrong Ferarri (sic) premiered in New York at Anthology Film Archives this week. The film stars the irrepressible Mr Green who describes it as ‘A Screwball Tradgedy’ (sic again). Not unsurprisingly, Adam also wrote and directed the movie – and it was shot entirely on his iPhone.

BP Fallon plays Adam as an old man in forty years time in a wheelchair with tubes hanging out of him – as well as speaking the film’s narration.

Also starring in this phantasmagorical ketamine-catalysed opus are Macauley Calkin, Pete Doherty, Devendra Banhart, Har Mar Superstar and Adam’s mother Leah Green.

Watch and/or download the entire feature length movie here for free:
The Wrong Ferarri (70 mins)
Must be over 18 (who’s counting?)

BP Fallon as Adam Green during Adam’s seemingly-addled older years, from The Wrong Ferarri

505diary
The Wrong Ferarri is unlike any film you’ve ever seen – a 70 minute piece of work that boldly straddles the line between screwball tragedy, surrealist comedy and performance art.

BBC America
Pete Doherty Featured in New Adam Green Flick

NME News
Pete Doherty and Macaulay Culkin star in ‘ketamine’-fuelled Adam Green film

New York Magazine
Adam Green Explains His Macaulay Culkin–Starring, Ketamine-Influenced iPhone Movie The Wrong Ferrari

Pedestrian.tv
Adam Green Recruits Hip Indie Scenesters For Film

SPIN
See Macauley Culkin in Adam Green’s Comic Movie

ContactMusic.com
Pete Doherty Teams With Culkin For iPhone Movie

Pete Doherty in The Wrong Ferarri

With Twitter hopping with #thewrongferarri and #thewrongferrari tweets, our favourites so far are @counterboud “I think it’s safe to say that #thewrongferarri is the ‘Un Chien Andalou’ of the drug-addled urban youth of 2011″ and @CatrinaBooth “omg the dubbed pete doherty bit of #thewrongferrari just made me piss about 3 river niles”.

“I’d liken it to being on the side of a Grecian urn”.

Broadcast live on The John Murray Show on RTE Radio 1, talking about Top Of The Pops: Sir Jimmy Savile, BP Fallon and Irish showband star Larry Cunningham – plus Joe Elliott from Def Leppard and actor Frank Kelly who played Father Jack Hackett in the hit comedy Father Ted. All appeared on the celebrated BBC TV pop show that ran for 38 years from 1964 to 2002, with excerpts now being rescreened on BBC4.

Hear it here: The John Murray Show Goes Top Of The Pops

John Lennon, Yoko Ono, Beatles tour manager Mal Evans and BP Fallon on Top Of The Pops 1970.

Larry Cunningham’s Showband Memories 2011

With thanks to John Murray, Denise and Elizabeth in Dublin and Joly in New York.

Through his warmth and skill, genuine enthusiasm and probing curiosity, Donal Scannell draws from BP Fallon the most revealing and personal interview that this rock’n'roll enigma has ever given. Fallon’s respect for Scannell is easily visible in the way he responds to his questioner in this very special meeting of the minds filmed in Dublin.

BP Fallon by Nigel Harrison

BP Fallon had been in touch with ace guitarist Danny B Harvey, said one of the songs he’d like to sing at Jimmy Quill’s annual party at Red Horse Ranch was ‘Twenty Flight Rock’. Come the day in the wilds of Texas, Nigel Harrison was on board for bass guitar and noted country singer and songwriter Mike Stinson kindly offered to play drums – until James Intveld appeared and said “Do you want the Eddie Cochran original or the version by Robert Gordon and Link Wray?” Thus, James Intveld, drums.

Fallon, Harvey, Harrison and Intveld were joined on ‘Van And Gloria’ by the legendary Michael Des Barres on tambourine and backing vocals – with added b/vs and inimitable harmonica from celebrated actor Patrick Bergin (who, fact fans, played the menacing husband of Julia Roberts’ character in 1991′s thriller ‘Sleeping With The Enemy’, among many superb roles. Rock’n'role).

Angels flying too close to the ground: MDB’s tambo goes halo over The LV’s head. Photography by Christopher Durst.

Glen Brown from Sin City Social Club filmed, Christopher Durst photographed. Thank you, gentlemen. And without whom: Jimmy Quill and his magical Red Horse Ranch.

Meanwhile, back on the ranch… Photography by Christopher Durst

BP Fallon & His Bandits at ‘Dancing In The Moonlight’ at Jovita’s, Austin: Aaron Lee Tasjan, BP Fallon, Mark Stepro and Nigel Harrison. The killer combo also played two other storming sets – at the St Patrick’s Day Austin Fleadh and at The Hole In The Wall. Thank you Frank Murray and Kay Gourley. Photography by Bob Gruen.

Operation Juliet at TenOak, Austin: Aaron Lee Tasjan, Mark Stepro, BP Fallon, Teddy Purvay and Sean Lennon. The dual blues-wailing guitars of the dynamite Lennon/Tasjan duo – duelling and knitting with each other on ‘I Believe In Elvis Presley’ and ‘Van And Gloria’ – were spectacular. Thank you SXSW for this magic night. Photography by Bob Gruen.

Operation Juliet singers BP Fallon and Irina Lazareanu in Austin. Photography by Jen Carey.

BP Fallon & The Twenty Flight Rockers at The Red Horse Ranch, Texas: Michael Des Barres (Silverhead), BP Fallon, Danny B Harvey (Wanda Jackson guitarist), James Intveld (drums; guitar in the John Fogerty band) and Nigel Harrison (Silverhead/Iggy Pop band/Blondie/BP Fallon & His Bandits). Thank you Jimmy Quill for hosting this amazing event. Photography by Kate Jurkiewicz.

“Life’s pretty good
It’s the only one we got
And if we didn’t have it
We would have it not…”
- excerpt from ‘Cold Chills’ by BP Fallon & His Bandits

Bandits: Aaron Lee Tasjan, BP Fallon, Mark Stepro & Nigel Harrison. Photography by Andrew Halliday.

With a grateful doff of the Derby to each of the magnificent musicians with whom we played in Texas, the LV gives special thanks to Aaron Lee Tasjan and Nigel Harrison and Mark Stepro. An honour to be the singer
in our effervescent and vibraphonic New York rock’roll band, gentlemen. More chariot choogles to come…

“Made out like a bandit
For so many years
What are you workin’ for?
One more big score?
What are you tryin’ to prove?

… No one can touch you now
But I can touch you now
You’re invisible
You got too many secrets
Bob Dylan said that
Somethin’ like that

Someday
You’ll find
Everything you’re looking for”
- excerpt from ‘Bandit’ by Neil Young

Operation Juliet have announced that they will be playing a particularly special SXSW showcase gig.

Featuring contributions from BP Fallon, MC Spank Rock, Irina Lazareanu, Sean Lennon and Aaron Lee Tasjan, the 9-piece musical collective will play Austin’s TenOak this Thursday March 17th at 1am going into Friday March 18th – in what promises to be the musical climax of St Patrick’s Day in the whole of Texas! Indeed, in America, probably.

Free! SXSW presents Operation Juliet
Thursday March 17th St Patrick’s Night 1am going into Friday!
TenOak @ 409 Colorado Street, Austin, TX 7870

The cast:
Irina Lazareanu vox
BP Fallon vox
MC Spank Rock vox
Aaron Lee Tasjan vox/guitar
Sean Lennon vox/guitar/drums
Charlotte Kemp Muhl vox/bass/accordion/tinkling things
Steve Smyth vox/guitar
Teddy Purvay guitar/bass
Mark Stepro drums

Irina Lazareanu & Sean Lennon & Charlotte Kemp Muhl by Radek

BP Fallon & Aaron Lee Tasjan & Sean Lennon by Jen Maler

MC Spank Rock

Let There Be Drums: Sean Lennon by BP Fallon

*The Operation Juliet show is in addition to the three shows in Austin during SXSW by BP Fallon & His Band

Guilty. BP Fallon vox, Mark Stepro drums, Nigel Harrison bass & Aaron Lee Tasjan guitar

Thursday March 17
5pm St Patrick’s Day Austin Fleadh
@ Kung Fu Saloon, 510 Rio Grande St, Austin, TX 78701
7pm Hole In The Wall
@ 2538 Guadalupe St, Austin, TX 78705

Friday March 18
5.15pm ‘Dancing In The Moonlight’
w/ Bob Geldof & his band
@ Jovita’s, 1619 South 1st Street Austin, TX 78704

All above shows are free admission

“And we all shine on…”