BP Fallon

So along come eircom with their new advertising posters. Not exactly a benign scene being depicted – an unhappy girl being manhandled out of somewhere that’s supposed to be rockin’ by two grim-faced don’t-fuck-with-me security guards.

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

Jimi in New York 1967 by Baron Wolman

Says BP Fallon: “41 years ago my friend Penny Valentine from the music paper Disc rang me to say she’d just heard that Jimi Hendrix had died. Noel and Mitch from the Experience are gone now too… as is Penny. And Disc…”

“The story
Of life is quicker
Than the wink of an eye
The story of love
Is hello and goodbye
Until we meet again”
-Jimi Hendrix, The Story Of Life

The Jimi Hendrix Experience on ‘The Lulu Show’ (1969)

Jimi & Noel & Mitch and their majestic Voodoo Chile and a beautifully wild intro to Hey Joe before Jimi announces “We’d like to stop playing this rubbish” and launches into a spontaneous instrumental twang through Cream’s Sunshine Of You Love – with the producers of the live tv show freaking out as the show is running over time. Priceless.

The Jimi Hendrix Experience – Purple Haze at The Marquee Club 1967

Jimi & Janis Fillmore West 1968 by Baron Wolman

Jimi Hendrix & Robert Wyatt of The Soft Machine & Henry McCullough of Eire Apparent on tour together USA 1968 by Linda Eastman

Eric Burdon & John Mayall & Jimi Hendrix & Steve Winwood and The Move’s Carl Wayne UK 1967

Brian Jones & Jimi Hendrix @ Monterey 1967. Brian introduced The Jimi Hendrix Experience live on stage, thus introducing them to America

Jimi Hendrix in Montagu Place, London 1967 by David Magnus

Jimi Hendrix Nov 27th 1942 – Sept 18th 1970
Noel Redding Dec 25th 1945 – May 11th 2003
Mitch Mitchel July 9th 1947 – Nov 12th 2008

God Bless you, Jimi. And Noel and Mitch too x

Noel Redding & Jaime Coon in Clonakilty,
West Cork, Ireland June 2002 by BP Fallon

Jaime Coon in Noel Redding’s garden, Dunowen House, Ardfield
near Clonakilty, West Cork, Ireland June 2002 by BP Fallon

BP Fallon’s Wang Dang Doodle Goes 40 Shades Of Green

Photography: Dublin by BP Fallon

BP Fallon’s Wang Dang Doodle Goes 40 Shades Of Green

00:00 BP introduces The Greening Of Wang Dang Doodle
00:29 Ramalama Boogaloo Wang Dang Doodle – Ronnie Drew
00:39 Some Kind Of Kick – The Things
03:42 I Heard Wonders – David Holmes
09:09 Big Old River – Henry McCullough
11:37 BP verbal
12:12 Neu Tune – Humanzi
19:27 Don’t Hold Your Head So Low – Sweet Jane
24:27 Waitin’ ‘Round To Die – The Mighty Stef & Shane MacGowan
28:24 Magazine – The Mighty Stef
31:45 Leave My Body Behind – The Brothers Movement
35:57 BP rabbit
36:30 Tralee Trembles – Lilt
41:44 Sonny Boy Blues – The Hot Sprockets
48:38 Friends In Time – The Golden Horde & Maria McKee
53:59 Blue Shoes – Colm Mac Con Iomaire
56:58 BP parting glass
57:51 The Parting Glass – Ronnie Drew
59:38 And the jingles jangling go auld triangling

Photography: BP Fallon & Shane MacGowan by Jaime Coon

Photography: Lydia Des Dolles of Sweet Jane

Photography: David Holmes by BP Fallon

Photography: Jimi Hendrix & Robert Wyatt (The Soft Machine)
& Henry McCullough (Eire Apparent) on tour together in America
1968 by Linda Eastman

Photography: Ronnie Drew & BP Fallon by Barbara Lindberg

More vibey Wang Dang visuals plus live gig listings on brill BreakThruRadio.com

We are delighted to announce that BP Fallon will be DJing and speaking at Ireland’s famous Electric Picnic festival.

Photography: BP Fallon speaking at Mindfield at Electric Picnic last year, by lib-lab

Electric Picnic Music & Arts Festival, Friday September 3rd – Sunday September 5th at Stradbally Hall Estate, Co. Laois, Ireland.

At Electric Picnic’s Mindfield, BP will speak on the panel ‘Unknown Pleasures’ in a talk about the past, present and future of the music business/schmizzness, in the company of some of its other enduring legends. Peter Hook – former bass player with Joy Division and New Order – teams up with pot evangelist Mr. Nice Howard Marks in a frank conversation about the fraught past; former Wham! manager and author of the scurrilous book ‘Black Vinyl, White Powder’ Simon Napier-Bell joins them to talk about the present – and legendary DJ, photographer, lead vocalist and Viscount Of Vibes BP Fallon looks into the future. The panel is presented by RTE and is moderated by Dave Fanning.
Saturday @ 4pm in the Leviathan tent.

Photography: BP Fallon @ Electric Picnic’s Mindfield 2009 by Bob Gruen

Dublin’s Science Gallery present Ignite at Mindfield. Our esteemed Mr Fallon will give a rapid 5-minutes-with-slides Ignite talk. Title of BP’s chinwag-with-visuals is ‘Now And Zen: Mind Your Mind And Your Mind Will Mind You’ – which could mean anything and probably does.
Saturday @ 3pm.

And after all the sorta-cerebral stuff has been sorted – even more fun and frolics when BP Fallon takes to the decks to DJ at Mindfield, where he headlines under the Science Gallery umbrella (tent?).
Saturday @ 8pm.

“I’m very very vibed up about this Mindfield-Science Gallery-Electric Picnic boogaloo” our Mr Fallon says from New York. “Electric Picnic, with all its many magics like Mindfield and Body And Soul – as well as the incredible music – is an important festival. Last year was a complete gas. I can’t wait to be in Ireland at EP next weekend, spinning and doing verbal”.

Also appearing at Electric Picnic are Massive Attack, Leftfield, Roxy Music, Public Image Ltd, LCD Soundsystem, Modest Mouse, The National, Lucent Dossier Experience, Marc Almond, Crystal Castles, Mumford & Sons, Hot Chip, Steve Earle, The Horrors and a cast of hundreds more.

Photography: May The Road Rise To Meet You – the road to Electric Picnic by BP Fallon

Photography: Mindfield at Electric Picnic 2009 by BP Fallon

Photography: Cosmic lights at Electric Picnic 2008 by BP Fallon

More effervescent EP pix:
1) BP Fallon & The Kills, My Bloody Valentine, Shane MacGowan & The Sex Pistols @ Electric Picnic 2008
2) The BP Fallon Orchestra & Chorus at Mindfield @ Electric Picnic 2009

Photography: DJs BP Fallon & Agyness Deyn & Elvis @ Death Disco Toronto: You Are Here

Photography: DJ Aggy rockin’ it mega @ Death Disco Toronto by BPF

Photography: Audience vibe @ Death Disco Toronto by BPF

It was off the radar and beyond brilliant.

Death Disco loves you x

Death Disco says thank you Shaun Pilot & Matt Holloway & Vito, Milka, The Liberty Group and rock’n'roll.

More grooving often-out-of-focus Death Disco Toronto pix & Aggy on MTV

The first DDT review, plus pix: “Either way it was an awesome night”

For a night that promises to be completely joyfully rockingly crazy, the very rockin’ supermodel Agyness Deyn is Special Guest DJ when she joins BP Fallon on the decks to DJ at Death Disco Toronto on April 1.

Death Disco Toronto with DJs BP Fallon & Agyness Deyn
Thursday April 1 at 10pm
@ Liberty Grand in the swelegant Governor’s Room, Exhibition Place, Toronto
The Governor’s Room capacity 1500, total venue capacity 3,000
A Betsey Johnson Fashion Show kicks off tonight’s party!
Death Disco DJs BPF & AD 11pm to 2am!
Online tix only $30 here $40 on door if there are any left by then!

“I’ve always wanted Aggy to DJ at Death Disco” says BP, “and this party is the climax of Toronto Fashion Week so it’s perfect”

Agyness is currently receiving rave reviews for her acting debut in the McDermott and McGough movie ‘Mean To Me’ –  the thirteen-minute film noir set in 1930s Manhattan in which she plays opposite ‘Law & Order’ actor Linus Roache – with Vogue UK noting “Film critics laud Agyness Deyn’s acting debut as ‘flawless’”.

Screen grab: Agyness Deyn in ‘Mean To Me’. See an excerpt here

In Japan in collaboration with Barneys she has just launched her green-conscious capsule collection as part of the ‘Go Green’ campaign.

Agyness Deyn is the brightest light in modelling since Kate Moss kicked in twenty years ago and she’s now expanded into acting and designing. Music? She’s always DJed, at little parties and with pals. She’s a music girl. And during the recent London Fashion Week ‘Fashion For Haiti’ charity fundraiser, Aggy endeared  herself to the world even more when she famously fell on the runway from her high high heels not once but twice and just laughed the whole thing off with elegance and with grace and the cutest of curtsies. Dig ‘The Falls And Rise Of Agyness Deyn’!

Photograph: BP Fallon sees in his Tour Schedule that he’s DJing Death Disco Toronto with Special Guest DJ Agyness Deyn on April 1 2010 – thirty-eight years into the future. “I’m delighted I asked my agent to book me in advance” BP’s happily thinking as Marc Bolan hovers beside him cosmically.
Photography by Record Mirror at Chateau D’Herouville near Paris during the recording sessions for the T.Rex album ‘The Slider’ March 1972

Photography: BP & Aggy NYC May 2nd 2008 by David Cole

Agyness Deyn Online Blogspot

BP Fallon’s Wang Dang Doodle with Artists Of The Week
- from Chicago & New York - Felix Da Housecat & Diddy

BP Fallon’s Wang Dang Doodle featuring Felix Da Housecat & Diddy

00:00 BP Fallon opens the door
00:18 John Lennon & Jaime Coon hold it open
01:17 Ramalama Boogaloo Wang Dang Doodle – Ronnie Drew
01:27 BP Fallon bubbling mega
01:59 Lectro Black Last Train To Paris Mixtape 
- Felix Da Housecat & Diddy
61:20 BP Fallon waves au revoir from Paris
61:49 And the jingles jangling go auld triangling

Photography: Jaime Coon & Ronnie Drew DJing at Death Disco New York St Patrick’s Night 2004

More vibey Wang Dang visuals plus live gig listings on brill BreakThruRadio.com

BP Fallon and his band make their world debut in Texas at SXSW in Austin today March 17.

Their first-ever appearance happens just before BP takes the decks to DJ at Death Disco Texas.

Fronted by BP Fallon (vox), lead guitarist Aaron Lee Tasjan has played with The New York Dolls and the four-piece are powered by the Rock’n'Roll Hall Of Fame-inducted Blondie rhythm section of Nigel Harrison (bass) and Clem Burke (drums).

Joining BP and his band are The Mighty Stef among the additional hot combos.

Date: March 17 St Patrick’s night.
BPF combo stage time: 7.30pm immediately prior to BP Fallon DJing at Death Disco Texas as part of Frank Murray’s First Annual Fleadh.
Venue: The 4th St Fort, 216 4th Street @ San Jacinta, Austin, Texas.
Event starts midday to 10pm Sponsored by Guinness. FREE ADM!!! Fuck yeah.

Photography: BP Fallon by Mark Nixon. This photograph is the winner of ‘Best Portrait Image’ in the National Photographic Awards Ireland 2010

BP Fallon’s Wang Dang Doodle with Band Of The Week
- from everywhere - The Brian Jonestown Massacre

BP Fallon’s Wang Dang Doodle featuring The Brian Jonestown Massacre

00:00 BP & The Tayba Boogie & Who Killed Sgt. Pepper?
00:44 You’re Never Alone With BP Fallon – John Lennon
& Jaime Coon & Co
01:18 Tempo 116.7 (reaching for dangerous levels of sobriety)
- The Brian Jonestown Massacre
06:11 BP & The Trumpet Boogie
07:15 I Believe In Elvis Presley – BP Fallon
11:36 BP Fallon Interview By Jack White
15:48 Will There Be Enough Water – The Dead Weather
21:54 The Water’s All Run Dry – Wrinkle Neck Mules
25:59 The Ghost Who Walks – Karen Elson
29:12 BP rabbit
30:34 Someplace Else Unknown – The Brian Jonestown Massacre
36:47 Songs My Friends Taught Me – Laura Veirs
41:13 Because A Woman – Joe King Carrasco
46:04 BP boogaloo
47:13 Tunger Hnifur – The Brian Jonestown Massacre
51:15 Yr Mangled Heart – The Gossip
55:26 John Lennon fucks it
55:29 Magazine – The Mighy Steph
58:51 BP sees old friend
59:35 Ramalama Boogaloo Wang Dang Doodle – Ronnie Drew
59:45 BP bows and exits stage left, smiling about Texas and beyond
61:24 The One – The Brian Jonestown Massacre
64:38 And the jingles jangling go auld triangling

Karen Elson: ‘The Ghost Who Walks’ single cover

The Leather Boys: John Lennon & Paul McCartney &
Gene Vincent say hi from the Cavern Liverpool 1962
by Mike McCartney

Shea says hi from Milan March 2010

More vibey Wang Dang visuals plus live gig listings on brill BreakThruRadio.com

Happy everything.

You asked to hear it again, we’re happy to give it to you!

BP Fallon: “It’s kinda a sick subject but it’s serious too,
the brown bread boogie”.

Photography: BPF

BP Fallon & Dave Fanning present
‘IS DEATH A GOOD CAREER MOVE IN ROCK’N'ROLL?’
RTE Radio 2FM (75:00)

The Players & What Was Played When

00:00 – Dave says “Shut up!” and BP says “Why am I getting echo?”
00:26 – Rock’n'Roll – Led Zeppelin
04:04 – I Wanna Be Your Dog – The Stooges
07:08 – Fallon & Fanning: John Bonham and ‘Starship’ and Ron Asheton
and “the lonely and sad death of Kurt Cobain”
11:50 – The Man Who Sold The World – Nirvana
15:24 – Fallon on Fanning: Courtney in the Hole and Bobby Fuller on fire
18:10 – I Fought The Law – The Bobby Fuller Four
19:21 – I Fought The Law – The Clash
21:54 – Fallon on Fanning: Strummerville and Buddy Holly and King Curtis
24:27 – Reminiscing – Buddy Holly & King Curtis
26:22 – Fallon on Fanning: “The most obnoxious group ever, Queen”
plus Richie Valens and Zeppo and Mrs Valens and Dr John
30:20 – Spanish Stroll – Willie De Ville
32:58 – Fallon & Fanning: Willie De Ville
33:50 – The Wizard – Johnny Thunders w/ BP Fallon (harmonica/vox)
35:36 – Fallon & Fanning: “Hold on a second now!” says Dave and BP talks about Johnny Thunders and Chris Wood of Traffic and Phil Lynott and Steve Marriott
36:19 – Daddy Rolling Stone – Johnny Thunders & Phil Lynott & Steve Marriott plus Steve Jones & Paul Cook
39:17 – Fallon & Fanning & Marc Bolan
41:59 – 21st Century Stance – Marc Bolan & BP Fallon
44:16 – Fallon & Fanning: The Prophecies Of Sages Marc to Jimi to Henry McCullough
47:42 – Red House – The Jimi Hendrix Experience
51:25 – Fever – The Cramps
52:46 – Fallon & Fanning: Lux Interior & Bryan Gregory & Johnny Kidd & Mick Green
54:16 – Shot Of Rhythm’n'Blues – Johnny Kidd & The Pirates w/ Mick Green
55:20 – Fallon & Fanning & John Lennon
56:29 – I Am The Walrus – The Beatles
60:02 – Fallon on Fanning: plane-crashes & murders & “John Lennon and The Beatles changed the world with their attitude” to Michael Jackson RIP at The Apollo in Harlem
62:38 – I Want You Back – The Jackson 5
64:17 – Fallon on Fanning on ‘Death By Doctor’
65:35 – Little Sister (false starts) – Elvis Presley
67:35 – Fallon & Fanning: Elvis & Lady GaGa & ‘I Believe In Elvis Presley’
70:24 – I Believe In Elvis Presley – BP Fallon

Added bpfallon.com bonus track
Casting My Spell – The Pirates

The Pirates: Johnny Spence (bass/lead vox) & Mick Green
(guitar) & Frank Farley (drums). Mick Green RIP.