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Death Disco Cork at The Half Moon was one of the craziest DD parties so far!

Cork's Stanley Super 800 performed tracks from their excellent acoustic electonica EP The Moonlight [Lamp Recordings], at times intense, at times humourful. A solo Leanne Harte - The New Princess Of Twang - made her electric guitar scream while belting out songs from her Eradication EP. This Dublin schoolgirl, she looks so demure, - but when Leanne Harte hits the stage and cranks it up it's hard rock with the vibe volume knob at 11! A star, truly.

Tony James, taking a speedy break from recording with his new band with ex-Clash genius Mick Jones, tore up the joint with his spell-binding mash-up mixes, giving the world premier to a whole bunch of new creations. Tony, when he DJs he says "My instrument is the history of rock'n'roll" and so it is, his mixes mashing together ev'ryone from Johnny Thunders, Led Zeppelin and 50 Cent to Frank Sinatra, Kylie and The MC5! Among the amazing new TJ mash-ups that made their debut at DD Cork are:

Heard It Thru Da Creem feat Marvin Gaye/Prince
Eye Of The Firestarter feat Chemicals/Prodigy/Stooges/Roxy Music/Who
The Kids Want Rock'n'Roll feat Ian DurySpice Girls/Floyd/Daft Punk
Blok Rokin Blitz feat Sweet/Chemicals/McLaren/Snap
White Storm feat Stripes/Doors/Dolly Parton/Wu Tang
Hope You Enjoyed The Madness feat Beatles/Blur/Sugarbabes/Pharrel

BTW David Bowie releases his version of Sigue Sigue Sputnik's timeless and timely Love Missile F1-11 - co-written by Sputnik mainman Tony James - on the new Bowie single!

BP Fallon in full-on mode had the full-on audience invading the stage to shake it out - T.Rex's 20th Century Boy smashed open the doors to the deluge - much to the bouncers' chagrin, who removed these dancers having fun despite BP's pleas over the mic that "Look, we've been doing this for a long time, it's cool, the equipment's safe, everyone's just rockin'". No Good. "Okay," says BP, "let's work with these security guys and just go mental on the dancefloor". Fine. The whole place is jumpin', rock'n'roll is liberating us all - except the bouncers who are now signalling for BP to stop the music. "It's quarter to three" says one of them, pointing at his watch. "The contract says three o'clock" says BP, who ignores them and keeps pumping it out. The DD party people are dancing like Dervishes, laughing, lifted by the music, elevated by this Us Vs Them scenario - it's like The Brooklyn Fox in '56 when the incensed police tried to stop this filthy new-fangled rock'n'roll.

Now it's getting hairy on stage - bouncers are shouting at Fallon, making throat-cutting gestures as he chooses his next CD. "Fuck 'em" BP's thinking, nonetheless gathering some heavy friends around him in case things get out of control once the punters have gone. As his final track, BP plays Joy Division's Love Will Tear Us Apart and the audience goes even higher, whoosh! Wow! This is amazing. And when the song stops and the lights go up, the whole audience stands there facing the stage and the line of bouncers on it glaring back at them like Nazis guarding the Berlin bunker... and the audience starts singing Ian Curtis' poignant lyric, singing en masse, singing "Love, love will tear us apart, again, love, love will tear us apart, again", over and over and over again and now BP's at the lip of the stage trying to shake hands with these uptight bouncers but they're having none of it, won't take his hand and the audience, this rock'n'roll choir, they're still singing "Love, love will tear us apart" and it's beautiful and it's moving and very very special and this goes on for a full seven minutes and they'd be singing it still 'cept BP says to this massed choir "If I play another track, will you help us all by clearing the club quickly?" and the Death Discoers roar their assent and the bouncers are fuming about to burst and BP whacks on BRMC's Whatever Happened To Our Rock'n'Roll and God it's magic.

BP's signing autographs now, talking to people, giving out Death Disco badges... when the head bouncer beckons him over, says "I'd like a word". "Huh" BP is thinking and the bouncer says "I'd like to apologise". He claims that he and his crew had not been informed that the party was to run till three. BP shakes his hand, asks to be introduced to the other bouncers, shakes their hands too and then goes back to signing autographs.

What a crazy mental uplifting night!

And The Half Moon management have asked Death Disco to return to Cork in October...

Death Disco Cork thanks Paul Davidson, Stephen O'Sullivan, Liam, Sean Whelan and Martin with a shout-out to Humphrey for the best Death Disco club sound ever - and special love and respect to the Death Disco Cork audience for one of the best nights ever - we'll be back!

Photos by Aimon, Tony + BPF

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