Counting down the very first Death Disco Dublin dates!
DDD#10 - DDD#1

DDD#10
Fucking great night! One of the very best so far! Donaghmede r'n'b psycho-mod combo The Things conquered like tank commanders with electric guitars storming Carnaby Street, Neil Moore the singer an impressive lunatic leaping all over the stage, lying on the stage, shrieking splendidly through Things originals like True To You, Live A Lie*, When I'm High* and Listen My Friend as Vinnie Duggan's guitar squealed triumphantly. What an adrenaline blast!

With Jimmy Cullen on drums, Robbie Brady on bass and Ruari Paxton on keyboards, these cats have got it.... if they'd've been playing London yonks ago they'd have given The Yardbirds and The Action a run for the honey in their hips. The Things climaxed with a wild thrash through The Yardbirds' Stroll On, Vinnie's guitar rasping Jeff Beck-like and Neil collapsing into Jimmy's drums. Trashed stage or not, the happily-blasted DDD audience demanded an encore which they delivered forcibly with Them's Gloria. There's something special about this group - attitude/youth/shapes/the right noise.
The Things - AMAZING!!!

* These tracks are downloadable from Soundweb.ie
[above] : The Things @ DDD#10: Neil, Ruari, Vinnie, Jimmy and Robbie chill-out post-gig
Photo by BPF using Fuji FinePix S602 Zoom

DJs at DDD#10
Steve Rapid: fucking rapid, his best set yet!
The Pretty Things throttling McGuire's Eve Of Destruction, The Score racing through The Fabs' Please Please Me, The Creation [Biff Bam Bow!], The Electric Prunes [Get Me To The World On Time]. The Bongos [Barbarella], The Count Bishops [I Want Candy], the unreleased track English Road by Kimberley Rue from The Soft Boys, The Seeds [Pushin' Too Hard],The Vipers [Nothings For Today] etc etc. and mega yeah!

Thomas And Duncan from Pugwash: brilliant!
Zappa [Peaches And Regalia], Fire [My Father's Name Is Fred], The Small Faces [Ogden's Nut Gone Flake], Pink Floyd with Syd [Lucifer Sam], Beck [New Pollution], Turtles [Buzzsaw], The Undertones, Who, Kinks, Smiths [What Difference Does It Make?], Hendrix, VU, Elvis Costello and Attractions [Pump It Up], Pugwash's own Monorail from their album Almanac and climaxing with The Monkees chortling through I'm Not Your Stepping Stone and TRex and the mental tale of the Metal Guru.

BPF:
Motorhead [God Save The Queen], Love [My Little Red Book], Bowie [Friday On My Mind], The Sweet [Ballroom Blitz], Tony James Bootleg Mix#13 [BRMC/Heartbreakers/Gen X/Led Zep], The Pretty Things [Don't Bring Me Down], Elvis [Little Sister], Wanda Jackson [Let's Have A Party], Ramones [Let's Dance], Jimi Hendix If 60s Was 90s fucked up brilliant dance mix, Primal Scream with Kate Moss on lead vocals singing Lee Hazlewood's Some Velvet Morning, Iggy [Real Wild Child + The Passenger], Mott The Hoople [All The Way From Memphis], The Misunderstood [Who Do You Love?], Teenage Cows Tony James Bootleg Mix, the ten-minute mix of Stone Roses' Fools Gold, winding down [Winding down? You must be fucking joking! Going over the cliff at full blast, more like!] with The Amboy Dukes featuring Ted Nugent twanging and screeching at full volume through Baby Please Don't Go...
Whew! DDD#10: "What a night, well it really was, uh, such a night!"

DDD#9
Steve Wall from The Walls turntabled splendidly while Radiators from Space duo Steve Rapid and Pete Holidai shared the stage for the first time in over 20 years with their head-to-head Battle Of The DJs - climaxing with Pete's astounding mix of The Flamin' Groovies' Teenage Head and Clockwork Orange! BPF played everything from The Sweet to Primal Scream to The Pretty Things to The D4!

At DDD#8 psycho ceilidh combo Neck raised the roof with an astounding assault of fiddles, flutes and torrential twanging, while Female Hercules kicked out the jams in fine punk fettle. DJs Thomas And Duncan from Pugwash played everything from The Action to Bowie, The Who to The Smiths to Howlin' Wolf! BPF simply went bonkers on the decks airing everything from rare Tony James mixes to Elvis to The Stone Roses and Joy Division!!!


Female Hercules kickin' it @ DDD#8
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Ahead of the rest of the world as usual, DDD#7 marked The 25th Anniversary Of The Death Of Elvis when barnstorming rockabilly combo Aces Wild performed live, playing early Sun Records rockers by Elvis, Scotty and Bill - That's Alright Mama, Baby Let's Play House, Good Rockin' Tonight - as well as tracks by that other tear-it-up Memphis threesome The Johnny Burnette Rock'n'Roll Trio - mixed in with Aces Wild originals like Wild Wild Woman and Catch The Pigeon.
Aces Wild line-up: Fozi on lead vocals and rhythm guitar, Dave on Gretsch guitar, Tom on stand-up drums + Mojo on double bass. Shakin'!!!

Aces Wild tear it up @ DDD#7, waking Elvis from a snooze!
Photo by BPF using Fuji FinePix S602 Zoom



At DDD#6: The Sex Pixels kicked the bollocks into the net with a roaring reprise of Rotten and Cos sharpest moments, screaming through Bodies, EMI, Pretty Vacant and God Save The Queen with splendid effect. Johnny, Steve, Paul and Sid were certainly in the building, sounding uncanningly like the four oiks - and Sid - who forever - thank God - changed the face and sound of rock'n'roll.

Pete Holidai from punk pioneers The Radiators From Space delivered a tremendous two-tiered set, revving up with a grand slam of glam [Sparks/Roxy/Bowie etc] before putting the icing out to bake with a collection of seminal Irish punk records specially gathered for the occasion from his mum's attic - among them The Undertones, The Rats and of course The Radiators themselves. A mighty rockin' set, as thought-out as Gavin Friday's triumph at DDD#2. Fair play t'you, Pete.

Previously unsurpassed intellectual heights were reached in the questions from our hero BP Fallon on stage, quizzing the DDDers for the free copies of Sinéad O'Connor's thumping Troy remixes [Sample: "With what letter does Sinéad O'Connor's second name begin?" "Oh!" the audience shrieked in multi-voiced unison]. Being a wise old fuck, BP gave the lash to a bunch of Tony James bootleg mixes to the party-groovers' obvious delight, as well as whacking in some dance mixes of Hendrix and the afore-mentioned Ms O'Connor. Mr Fallon completed the night with the song that has become something of a DDD theme song, T Rex's Hot Love. Yes, and it was hot, love. See ya every Friday!

At DDD#5 the new Primal Scream album Evil Heat was launched with Primals vids on the Big Screen + 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 + 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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