Death Disco Dublin#1-#5

At DDD#5 the new Primal Scream album Evil Heat was launched with Primals vids on the Big Screen and 30 giveaways for copies of Evil Heat! BP Fallon punked it up, Steve Rapid hit us with hard countrybilly and Tony James raised the fucking roof with his amazing mixes that included everyone from BRMC to John Lennon, The Undertones to The Heartbreakers and one mix that melds The MC5, The Hives and Prince! Wicked and wild! What a brilliant night! Not for nothing is Tony James known as The King Of The Bootleggers!
He'll be back... watch this spaced!

BP Fallon and Tony James at DDD#5
Photo: Jaime Coon on Fuji FinePix S602 Zoom



Death Disco Dublin continues every Friday in August. Says BP Fallon: "God knows what'll happen when we reach September - and He hasn't told me yet..."

DeathDiscoDublin returned with a double whammy - DDD#3 hosted a pre-Witnness party + DDD#4 threw the post-Iggy rave-up after the Pop's brilliant Olympia concert. Among the star DJs were Mani from Primal Scream, who rocked the fuckin' house LAMF. The Revs made their DJ debut with everything from Hendrix to Michael Jackson and Dandelion funked up the Dungeon. BP Fallon punked it to the max and Jaime Coon from New York played an astounding non-stop hour of Ramones hits and rarities and shook a tail-feather on-stage. And a bunch of DDD party-goers won the new Sex Pistols box set, a rake of God Save The Queen 7" singles and ten Iggy CDs!

Mani, BP Fallon and Kevin Shields at DDD#4
Photo: Jaime Coon on Fuji FinePix S602 Zoom

DeathDiscoDublin#2 SHAKES A BIG ONE!
DDD#2 @ Eamon Dorans - seven and a half hours of rifferama - saw DeathDiscoFever hit Dublin for the second time running. The Rats Of The Shining Path - strange twisted country, heartbreaks for wrecks and dark clouds for redemption - featured the enigmatic Mick Tierney plus Annie and Luci from Chicks, while Blood Or Whiskey and their energised jump up music proved they're much more than mere Pogues clones, with singer Barney - who overcame pneumonia to rise, Lazarus-like, to play at DeathDiscoDublin - in full-tilt vocal throttle.

Watching The Osbournes on the Big Screen in the DeathDiscoDublin @ Dorans subterranean cellar - a beat dive turned into an underground cinema - was truly surreal - and fun. Ozzy's cool.

So too is Steve Rapid. The singer from The Radiators From Space, the sheriff's badge on his black leather jacket perfectly portraying his punkabilly heart, he spinned everything from Sham 69/UK Subs/Skids to Mike Ness from Social Distortion to Bermuda by Roky Erickson + I Want Candy by The Count Bishops [the original 5" single!] + Motorhead's Ace Of Spades done Johnny Cash stylee by Union Square. Brilliant.
Photography [above] : Gavin Friday USA 1992 by BPF, from BP's book U2 Faraway So Close

In the DeathDiscoDublinDungeon - a tunneled annex to the main cellar not unlike the old Cavern Club in Liverpool - respite from the sonic pounding came in the form of loping reggae + 50s rockabilly rockingly turntabled by Tarquin. Here, people chilled + chatted + shook a tailfeather before leaping into the louder breach again.

Note: one of the many beauties of DDD is that there is no VIP area - ev'ryone here is a VIP to us so forgive us if names are mentioned: Guggi - artist extraordinare and one-time Virgin Prune with Gavin Friday - lurked in shadows with DJ John Kelly while designer Antonia Campbell Hughes twinkled hornily and Homage magazine took photographs and members of Female Hercules grooved around and Mr ElectroClash himself Muddy tingled to Ministry and Kat strutted her stuff and Fred 'Sonic' Smith, Gene Vincent, Mick Ronson and Johnny Thunders were heard giggling happily in a corner and most ev'ryone else went psychotic on the dance-floor or danced on the stage... or both.

Photography [below] : Gavin Friday + BPF at DeathDiscoDublin #2 by BPF

Gavin Friday, immaculate from his shades to his shoes, he appeared with a small suitcase of CDs. He looked like a World War 2 wideboy about to flog black-market nylons. Instead, out of his case the spell-making Mr Friday produced a musical set that was provocative, challenging and contageously stimulating. Opening with The Streets and travelling via Gang Of Four/Cabaret Voltaire/Wire/Beastie Boys/Bomb The Bass/Einsturzende Neubaten/Pere Ubu/Stooges, Gavin climaxed with TRex's Cosmic Dancer. "This song says it all for me" Gavin said to BPF in the DJ hole-in-the-wall/cage, adding "It can make you cry." "It often has" BP said, as couples lurched around the dancefloor, taken by the spell of Marc Bolan's magic. For Gavin Friday's inspired 26-song DDD set list, the talk of Dublin and beyond, vibe into http://www.gavinfriday.com/core.shtml

BP Fallon, battle-ready in German army camouflage, he kicked off with The D4's Rock'n'Roll Motherfucker, voyaged through Plasmatics/G'N'R/LZ/Sid/Albertos/Sonics/Saints/Ramones + Hung In A Bad Place from the next Oasis album + Soulwax/VU/Ziggy/Pistols + Elvis Vs JXL/BRMC + Britney cock-teasing her way through I Love Rock'n'Roll + Peaches with Fuck The Pain Away plus a whole bunch of tracks from Primal Scream's next album, all of 'em stunning, the first time they've been played in public, ever - Sick City + Skull X + Autobahn 66 + Rise + Miss Lucifer. Mad + wonderful and fucking LOUD. Mr Fallon reluctantly wound the party down at 3.30am with The Pogues and A Pair Of Brown Eyes.

As Gavin Friday was leaving the party, a bunch of people burst into spontaneous applause in appreciation of a brilliant night. "I wasn't able to say anything to them", Gavin was able to say two days later, his faculties fully restored. "My ears were ringing from the volume and I couldn't hear anything". "What, Gavin? My ears are ringing from the volume and I can't hear anything"...


IRELAND ROCKED BY Death Disco Dublin!
The opening night of DeathDiscoDublin drove the capacity crowd crazy + deliciously delirious + suitably psychotic as they shook it up on the dancefloor in fine full-tilt fettle until 4am.

Steve Rapid - legendary vocalist from The Radiators From Space - opened the proceedings with a shakin' hunk of punkabilly while upstairs Simon F soothed the savage brow.

BP Fallon pummeled his enthusiastic victims with Soulwax, White Stripes, The Sonics + Primal Scream while his partner in rhyme Alan McGee whacked on The Saints, Gang Of Four, Zodiac Mindwarp + Roxy's Virginia Plain.

Surprise Guest DJ Howlin' Pelle from The Hives spinned Dr Feelgood, The Ramones and some ace 60s garage rock from Lenny Kaye's Nuggets box-set, while Hives guitarist Vigilante opted for The Stones in another subterranean cellar thirty years ago doing Exile On Main Street.

< Photo: Must we throw this filth at our kids? DDD DJs BP Fallon + Howlin' Pelle pictured by Hot Press' Kat


"It was a brilliant party! I had a mad night!"
Alan McGee told Bobby Gillespie who told BP Fallon who told bpfallon.com.

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