BP Fallon

The Robert Plant & Twang Wang Dang Doodle

Working with Led Zeppelin was very hard work #3
BP Fallon & Sable Starr swap clothes (as one does)…
Photography by & © Roy Harper

00:00 Robert Plant & BP Fallon do the intro rabbit
00:15 BP Fallon’s Wang Dang Doodle – The Blind Boys Of Alabama
00:28 Robert Plant & BP Fallon on nubiles & other silly stories
02:29 Nobody’s Fault But Mine – Blind Willie Johnson
05:38 Getchya Hip Thrust – The Ghost Wolves
08:58 Black Crow – The Ghost Wolves & BP Fallon
12:41 Cause And Effect (Fucking Idiot) – BP Fallon & The Ghost Wolves
16:10 BP here & there & now & zen
18:11 Intro – Led Zeppelin, Southampton, England 1973
19:11 Does Anyone Care What Anyone Says In Rock’n’Roll – BP Fallon & The Bandits
21:51 If I Had My Way – Blind Willie Johnson
24:58 Now We’re Nowhere – Little Barrie
29:01 Tip It Over – Little Barrie
34:21 Eagle Flies On Friday – Headcat
37:39 Pure White Cadillac – Big Rig Jackknife Rock w/ Danny B Harvey & Jimmy Quill
41:49 Taking Out The Trash – Endless Boogie
48:19 Will There Be Enough Water – The Dead Weather
54:30 Onwards To The Wall – A Place to Bury Strangers
58:16 BP over the rainbow
61:02 Peace In The Valley – The Rev Lonnie Farris
63:31 The jingle jangles go auld trianguling with Ronnie Drew
63:59 That’s All 4 Now, Folks!

Hear here!
Robert Plant & Twang Wang Dang Doodle, on BTR

Working with Led Zeppelin was very hard work #3

BP Fallon & Robert Plant, Houston, Texas
Photography by & © Nicola Powell

BP Fallon & The Bandits – Still Legal
Produced at Red Horse Ranch Studio in Austin Texas
by Fallon/Tasjan/Harrison/Burke

Working with Led Zeppelin was very hard work #1

The Twenty Fight Rockers – Michael Des Barres & BP Fallon
& Danny B Harvey & James Inveld from John Fogarty’s band
& Nigel Harrison from BP Fallon & The Bandits
Photography by & © Christopher Durst

A bunch of wild men running around Red Horse Ranch Studio,
Austin, Texas – Jesse Dayton & BP Fallon & Michael Des Barres
& Danny B Harvey & Jimmy Quill
Photography by & © Little Deb

Primal Scene with Barrie Cadogan front centre &
Soibhan Shields & Bobby Gillespie & Mani & Kevin Shields & Anna
Photography by & © BP Fallon

Primal Scream – Barrie Cadogan’s back & Bobby Gillespie out front
& Debbie Googe from My Bloody Valentine on bass guitar
Photography by & © BP Fallon

BP Fallon & Carley & Jonny of The Ghost Wolves
Photography by & © Aaron Lee Tasjan

The Ghost Wolves & BP Fallon 45

Blind Willie Johnson

Just another afternoon in New York
Jaime Coon photographed by & © BP Fallon

The Twang’s The Thang Wang Dang Doodle

Photography: Kevin Shields guitars by & © BP Fallon

00:00 BP Fallon says “It’ll be all White on the night”
00:22 BP Fallon’s Wang Dang Doodle – Ronnie Drew
00:32 Sixteen Saltines – Jack White
03:08 I’m Mad – The Dead Weather
06:22 Sugar Baby – The Kills
10:40 This Is The End – Steve Conte
13:32 High And Happy – Steve Marriott
16:04 BP machine head
16:59 American Beat – Headcat
18:37 Could Be, Doesn’t Matter – The Heads
22:38 Psychedelic Music – Lightning Raiders w/ Steve Jones & Paul Cook
25:00 More Then Your Mouth Can Hold – Silverhead
28:22 Honeyskippin’ – The Hot Sprockets
35:20 Drug Through The Mud – Joe King Carrasco
39:36 Rockblocker – Tierrausaur
42:47 Dr Winston O’Boogie for Gene & Eddie & Elvis
43:03 Failed Christian – Henry McCullough
47:12 The Devil’s Guitar – Pete Holidai
49:59 6.10 Special – The Radiators From Space
52:55 That’s Alright – The Radiators From Space
55:05 Trouble No More – Honkytonk Homeslice
58:12 BP plane sailing
60:36 Baby I Just Wanna Go Home – Kevn Kinney
63:16 And the jingle jangles go old triangling
63:41 That’s All 4 Now, Folks!

Hear here!
The Twang’s The Thang Wang Dang Doodle, on BTR

BP Fallon & Jack White
by & © Jo McCaughey/Third Man Records

Photocall: BP Fallon & Kim Gordon of Sonic Youth
& The Kills Jamie Hince & Alison Mosshart
by & © Mark Squires

Who’s looking at who? The Dead Weather – Dean Fertita
& Jack White & Alison Mosshart & Jack Lawrence
by & © BP Fallon

Guitars
by & © BP Fallon

If guitars could fly…
by & © BP Fallon

Silverhead badge – photo of Michael Des Barres in a limo mirror
by & © BP Fallon 1972, photo of the actual badge by BP a few years ago

Salute To Henry McCullough
Vicar Street, Dublin March 3rd 2013

Hey Mr Tambourine Man –
John Lennon & Phil Spector & two of
Stevie Wonder’s band & BP Fallon
Madison Square Gardens New York 1972

BP Fallon says “No guns! Fuck guns!”

Kevin Shields attends a BP Fallon DJ gig at Death Disco London 2002
by & © BP Fallon

BP Fallon talks about My Bloody Valentine tonight, specifically discussing their classic groundbreaking 1991 album Loveless.

The TodayFM programme will be streamed live across the world at 7pm GMT – and will also be available as a podcast once it airs.

At the band’s invitation, BP has DJed on concerts by My Bloody Valentine in the US and Britain and is a great admirer of the music created by Kevin Shields and chums. Kevin promises the follow-up album to Loveless very shortly – and Mr Shields speaketh not with over-optimism (this time).

Our Mr Fallon will be talking to the host and creator of the series Poetic Champions Compose – which focuses on one classic album per show – Fiachna Ó Braonain of Hothouse Flowers.

TodayFM 7pm – Poetic Champions Compose
Live streaming

Patti Smith sings Louie Louie for Kevin Shields NYC 2008 by & © BP Fallon

Kevin Shields Believes In Elvis – from the video for BP Fallon’s I Believe In Elvis Presley

MBV’s Bilinda Butcher & Colm Ó Cíosóig New Jersey 2009
by & © BP Fallon

Primal Scene Dublin 2011 by & © BP Fallon

BP Fallon & MBV’s Debbie Googe at All Tomorrow’s Parties somewhere in England 2009 by & © Rosalynde Robert

Bobby Gillespie & Debbie Googe – Debbie was playing with Primal Scream, she’s back with MBV now – Dublin 2012 by & © BP Fallon

Two dodgy geezers, All Points West Festival, New Jersey 2009
by & © Jen Maler

Jeanne Marine & BP Fallon – Comme Ci Comme Ca – recorded and filmed in London & New York. Words & Music – BP Fallon/Jeanne Marine

A wry tongue-in-chic little tune to mark New York Fashion Week, which kicked off today.

“A little bit here, a little bit there” says BP and Jeanne says “Comme ci, comme ca” while plucking her ukelele.

It’s a cryptic little video that could’ve been shot by Andy Warhol, it’s that loose and sloppy and strange and charming.

“Fashion is for people who follow” intones BP drily, adding more truthfully “Life is a trampoline of possibilities… I’m a saint and I want to meet a sinner”.

Somewhere over the rainbow, Serge Gainsbourg is smiling…

“Which way is up?” BP Fallon & Jeanne Marine in London with a hammock and a few books. Photograhs by & © Bob Geldof

BP Fallon & Aaron Lee Tasjan – interview by RTÉ 2fm’s Dan Hegarty – Electric Picnic 2012

BP Fallon & Aaron Lee Tasjan – I Believe in Elvis Presley – Electric Picnic 2012

On their first-ever visit to Ireland together, BP Fallon and Aaron Lee Tasjan – the esteemed guitarist in BP Fallon & The Bandits – were interviewed by RTÉ 2fm at Ireland’s Electric Picnic Festival and filmed performing the Fallon/Tasjan song I Believe In Elvis Presley.

BP does warble

Aaron does verbal

BP Fallon & Aaron Lee Tasjan & Dan Hegarty
All photography courtesy RTÉ

With much thanks to RTÉ 2fm producer Ian Wilson and his vibey team

Gavin Friday in Soho in New York 1996 by BP Fallon

Ireland’s Electric Picnic Music Festival has just announced the pairing of two rock’n'roll legends on the festival’s opening day in MindField Friday Aug 31st at 5pm:

Gavin Friday & BP Fallon – Fear & Loathing & Loving At Electric Picnic

“You can call it ‘Two Rock’n'Roll Tarts Have A Chinwag’ if you want’” says BP Fallon who will be in surreal conversation with Gavin Friday.

Eccentric left-field one-offs, Friday and Fallon have much in common – a love of Marc Bolan and Ghandi and an appreciation of Quentin Crisp, a healthy distain for the mainstream and an exploration of the impossible.

This will not simply be another interview in a tent – think Gavin in full flow at Mr Pussy’s and BP Fallon interviewed by Jack White – ie anything can happen – and will.

Kick off your Electric Picnic with some MindField mind warp!

Sara Cummings & BP Fallon & Isabel Jaramillo by The Bar Bat

Electric Picnic 2012
w/ The Cure, Patti Smith, Lee ‘Scratch’ Perry, The Killers, Orbital, Azealia Banks, Sigor Ross, Grimes, Christy Moore, Hot Chip, Elbow etc etc etc

Tickets here

Electric Picnic Music Festival, Stradbally Hall, Stradbally, Co. Laois, Ireland this weekend Fri Aug 31/Sat Sept 1/Sun Sept 2

The Milk Made Interview – Sitting On A Curb With BP Fallon, by Mike Abu

BP Fallon by Mike Bogart/Milk

A few BP quotes from this sizzling interview:

“Most of rock’n'roll isn’t rock’n'roll, its wimpy shit. It’s not hard-on music, it’s dribble”.

“It’s time for everyone to have a mental breakdown and fall in love again”.

“I don’t want someone to grow old with — I want someone to stay young with. Please. PO Box 9173, all applications treated with confidentiality, respect and lust” [Laughter]

“It’s a miracle to be alive, because not everyone is. And if we don’t celebrate it to the max, if we don’t get as much juice out of the lemon as possible, then we’re not really using our time here”.

[BP got up and went back inside the Writer’s Room, leaving Jon and I on the curb]
Milk Made: “Seemed like a nice guy, yeah?”
[Jon took a long drag]
JL: “BP Fallon is the most inspiring person I’ve ever met”.
Milk Made: “You said that about Alice Cooper”.
JL: “But I mean it this time”.

Read the complete interview with the rock’n'roll sage on MilkMade.com

BP Fallon & Bandits guitar ace Aaron Lee Tasjan by Steven Stone/Milk

Well, it was a mad one, last week. We’re almost recovered.

BP Fallon shakes it with Ray Wylie Hubbard and band at Threadgill’s, Austin. Screengrabs by Vanessa Smith

Last Friday BP was in Austin, this time to sing with Texas legend Ray Wylie Hubbard and Ray’s band – his son Lucas on guitar joined by Billy on guitar – at feted open-air Austin venue Threadgill’s. Under the Texas sky, BP took the stage for one of his most shakin’ versions of ‘I Believe In Elvis Presley’ yet, with burning guitar solos from father and son. More Fallon rockin’, more new Fallon fans.

Ray Wylie Hubbard & BP Fallon perform live on KNBT in New Braunfels, Texas. Screengrab by Kim Galusha

On the Tuesday before, BP had traveled with his Tex-Mex pals Joe King Carrasco & The Crowns to central Texas, to Tavern In The Gruene in New Braunfels for Ray Wylie Hubbard’s live KNBT radio show Roots & Branches. After Joe King and chums had a warble and a verbal, Ray interviewed our Mr Fallon in front of the live audience and then on acoustic guitar he backed BP on ‘Fame #9 (excerpt)’ into ‘I Believe In Elvis Presley’. The newly-converted audience – many of whom had never before heard of BP Fallon let alone heard him sing and who quite honestly had been wondering who this weird-looking person was in the middle of Texas – they burst into wild applause that nearly knocked Fallon and Hubbard off their chairs.

Your Vibemaster, Mr Rock’n'Roll. Screengrab by Kate Jurkiewicz

Then on Saturday BP Fallon – billed as ‘Your Vibemaster, Mr Rock’n'Roll’ – was special guest and host at Austin’s Fire Fest. Featuring twenty of the hottest new Austin bands – including Fallon faves like Black Pistol Fire, The Sweet Nuthin’ and The White White Lights plus fireworks a go go – our man took the main stage and asked for the audience to be lit up before delivering an impassioned spoken word performance of ‘Fame #9′ into ‘Elvis’ that had the young punters going bonkers.

Black Pistol Fire’s Kevin McKeown guitar & BP Fallon vox at Austin Fire Fest. Screengrab by Kate Jurkiewicz

For BP’s second Fire Fest performance of the night he enlisted Black Pistol Fire guitarist Kevin McKeown to back him singing. “We’ve had some requests to do this as a song” BP announced as he and Kevin tore into a blueswailin’ ‘Elvis’ before bringing it home with the unreleased-as-yet BP Fallon & The Bandits anthem ‘Does Anyone Care What Anyone Says In Rock’n'Roll’, Kevin twanging like a mother and BP the sheik of the shake and the audience now going ape.

Then we went and lit some sparklers.

With thanks to Joe King Carrasco, Kim Galusha, Ray & Judy Hubbard, Mattson & Kim Rainer, Vanessa Smith, Kate Jurkiewicz, Weston McGowan, Kevin McKeown, Nathan Edge & the very fine Fire Fest team.

Wang Dang Doodle Band Of The Week – from Iceland & beyond
– Dead Skeletons arise

00:00 BP Fallon 4 play
00:21 BP Fallon’s Wang Dang Doodle – Ronnie Drew
00:31 Dead Is God – Dead Skeletons
04:08 Coricidin Bottle – Ray Wylie Hubbard
06:03 BP intro to the next bit
06:55 BP Fallon interviewed by Ray Wylie Hubbard on KNBT Texas
12:58 I Believe In Elvis Presley (acoustic) – BP Fallon & Aaron Lee Tasjan
16:59 Baby Says (acoustic) – The Kills
20:14 Count My Blessings – Ray Wylie Hubbard
24:25 My Lil Anna – Joe King Carrasco & The Crowns
27:19 Move In The Right Direction (CSS remix) – Gossip
31:18 Dead Mantra – Dead Skeletons
39:27 BP Goes Fire Fest
41:18 One More Way Of Moving On – The Sweet Nothin’
44:54 I Need Money – The White White Lights
47:48 Drop The Needle – Black Pistol Fire
49:46 Ain’t No Surprise – Leopold & His Fiction
54:02 BP au revoir
55:37 When The Sun Comes Up (For The Last Time) – Dead Skeletons
62:07 And the jingles jangling go auld triangling

Hear here!
Wang Dang Doodle featuring Dead Skeletons, on BTR

BP Fallon & Bandits Clem Burke & Aaron Lee Tasjan
by & © Little Deb

Ray Wylie Hubbard – The Grifter’s Hymnal

BP Fallon outside Tavern In The Gruene in New Braunfels,
Texas, after his chinwag with Ray Wylie Hubbard for KNBT.
Photography by Brandon Fitzsimon

The White White Lights

Miss B & Beth Ditto by & © BP Fallon

And!

Dead Skeletons – Dead Is God

Dead Skeletons – Dead Mantra

Texas Radio And The Big Beat!

Ray Wylie Hubbard – Roots & Branches Of Americana on KNBT 92.1FM

BP Fallon will be interviewed by Texas legend Ray Wylie Hubbard this evening on KNBT.

The show is a live remote broadcast from Tavern In The Gruene in New Braunfels, Texas and can be heard in Texas on 92.1FM in the San Antonio, San Marcos, New Braunfels, Gruene and Wimberley areas.

It is also broadcast globally live on the internet
Hear KNBT live here
Ray Wylie Hubbard will interview the mighty Joe King Carrasco & The Crowns at 7pm Texas time followed by BP Fallon at 7.40pm ie 8.40pm in New York, 5.40pm in LA and 1.40am tomorrow (Wednesday) morning in Dublin and London etc.

Says BP “BP Fallon & The Bandits, we’re not an Americana band, we’re a rock’n'roll band, which is why it’s even more of an honour to have a chinwag with Ray Wylie Hubbard on his show because he’s a man with a rock’n'roll heart”. BP’s record I Believe In Elvis Presley is played regularly in the show Outlaw Country on Sirius.XM

BP Fallon & Ray Wylie Hubbard earlier this year on Red Horse Ranch near Austin by & © Brian McDermott

Hear here! Ray Wylie Hubbard Wang Dang Doodle