00:00 Tallulah Jo for play
00:08 BP Fallon’s Wang Dang Doodle – Ronnie Drew
00:18 One More Way Of Moving On – The Sweet Nuthin
03:52 Psychedelic Music – Lightning Raiders w/ Steve Jones & Paul Cook
06:14 Addiction – Lightning Raiders
09:33 BP verbal
10:10 Back Home To Me – The Sweet Nuthin
13:45 Chant – The Hot Sprockets
14:34 Honeyskippin’ – The Hot Sprockets
18:10 John Lawman – Roky Erickson
20:56 Strangely Strange But Oddly Normal – Dr Strangely Strange
25:39 Sign On My Mind – Dr Strangely Strange w/ Gary Moore
33:59 BP rabbit
34:40 Burned – Royal Baths
41:55 Darling Divine – Royal Baths
45:30 What New York Used To Be – The Kills
48:42 Pots And Pans – The Kills
53:06 Cryin’ Rooster – Boom Chick
55:34 BP waves to the universe
56:33 Hope This Feeling Turns – The Sweet Nuthin
60:12 And the jingles jangling go auld triangling

Hear here!
Wang Dang Doodle featuring The Sweet Nuthin, on BTR

The Kills in Austin Texas by & © BP Fallon

Lightning Raiders – Psychedelic Music

Royal Baths – Better Luck Next Life

Dr Strangely Strange – Halycon Days

The Hot Sprockets – Honeyskippin’

The Sweet Nuthin

And!

Brenda Lee – Sweet Nothings

“I’ve put off making records under my own name for a long time but these songs feel like they could only be presented under my name. These songs were written from scratch, had nothing to do with anyone or anything else but my own expression, my own colors on my own canvas”
- Jack White.

‘Blunderbuss’ is produced by Jack White and was recorded at his Third Man Studios in Nashville.

00:00 BP Fallon
00:20 BP Fallon’s Wang Dang Doodle – Ronnie Drew
00:29 Oh Delilah – Deadman
03:36 The Kids Don’t Dance – The Happen-Ins
07:35 Junkie Youth Blues #33
11:00 Nailgun – Boom Chick
12:28 BP verbal
13:07 If I Lay Down In The River – Deadman
16:34 Will There Be Enough Water – The Dead Weather
22:21 Take Up Your Mat And Walk – Deadman
27:39 BP rabbit
28:13 Ain’t No Music – Deadman
37:27 Chicago – Tom Waits w/ Keith Richards
39:35 Hell Broke Luce – Tom Waits
43:27 BP speak
44:07 No Wow – The Kills
48:23 Monkey 23 – The Kills
51:20 The Last Goodbye – The Kills
54:50 BP au revoir
55:49 The Music’s Not Forgotten – Deadman
61:37 And the jingles jangling go auld triangling

Hear here!
Wang Dang Doodle featuring Deadman, on BTR

Deadman

The Dead Weather – Sea Of Cowards

Tom Waits – Bad As Me

The Kills – Blood Pressures

00:00 BP Fallon & Jimi Hendrix for play
00:15 BP Fallon’s Wang Dang Doodle – The Blind Boys Of Alabama & Ronnie Drew
00:39 This Is End – Steve Conte
03:31 504 – Soul Rebels Brass Band
08:06 Shapeless And Gone – Porcelain Raft
11:47 BP verbal
12:28 Unless You Speak From Your Heart –Porcelain Raft
15:55 Baby Says (acoustic) – The Kills
19:10 Down In Memphis – Booker T Jones
22:51 I’m So Confused – Soul Rebels Brass Band
25:46 The Bronx – Booker T Jones w/ Lou Reed
30:21 Ghost Of Bo Diddley – Boom Chick
33:40 Exploding Head – A Place To Bury Strangers
37:06 Sweaty Dress – Boom Chick
40:24 Drifting In And Out – Porcelain Raft
43:35 BP rabbit
44:48 Thinking Like That – Hope Sandoval
49:21 BP Fallon Gramophone Blues
49:27 More Then Your Mouth Can Hold – Silverhead
52:49 Heart Breaking Man – Prospector
55:33 Strumpetheartedmonkeygirl – Steve Conte
57:35 BP au revoir
58:26 Put Me To Sleep – Porcelain Raft
62:16 And the jingles jangling go auld triangling

Hear here!
Wang Dang Doodle featuring Porcelain Raft, on BTR

Boom Chick – Shake Can Well

Silverhead – 16 And Savaged

Steve Conte by & © BP Fallon

A Place To Bury Strangers

00:00 BP Fallon in Texas
00:15 BP Fallon’s Wang Dang Doodle – Ronnie Drew
00:25 High And Happy – Steve Marriott
02:56 Now We’re Nowhere – Little Barrie
06:54 BP verbal
08:00 Louisiana Blues – Steve Marriott
11:42 Cocaine – Steve Marriott
15:17 Tempo 116.7 (Reaching dangerous levels of sobriety) – The Brian Jonestown Massacre
20:20 She Moves Me Man – Steve Marriott
24:17 Jaime Coon
24:18 Hambone – Steve Marriott
27:00 BP rabbit
27:33 Bluegrass Interval – Steve Marriott
30:48 Dead Mantra – Dead Skeletons
38:53 Felt Tipped Pictures Of UFOs (edit) – The Brian Jonestown Massacre
41:11 Captain Goatcabin’s Balancing Stallions – Steve Marriott
43:07 Never Say Never – Ian McLagan
45:34 Lend Us A Quid – Steve Marriott
50:27 BP chariot choogle
52:00 True Love Cast Out All Evil – Roky Erickson
56:25 And the jingles jangling go auld triangling

Hear here!
Wang Dang Doodle featuring Steve Marriott, on BTR

Steve Marriott in The Small Faces

Small Faces – Kenney Jones, Ian McLagan,
Steve Marriott & Ronnie Lane

Ian McLagan

Steve Marriott

Primal scene by & © BP Fallon

Dead Skeletons by themselves

With much thanks to Stephen & Phoebe Ceresia

And!

Steve Marriott in Humble Pie with The Backberries – Black Coffee. Yes x

BP Fallon & Phil Lynott, Malahide Castle Dublin March 1st 1983. Photography by Eve Holmes

Here’s a flashback to a year ago – BP Fallon & Dave Fanning talking to Katherine Thomas live on RTE Radio1 Jan 3rd 2011, discussing the life and times of their friend Phil
BP Fallon & Dave Fanning on Phil Lynott

Phil Lynott August 20th 1949 – January 4th 1986. Bless you, Phil.

Cup of tea? BP Fallon & Phil Lynott in Malahide Castle Dublin March 1st 1983. Photography by Eve Holmes

“I believe in Philip Lynott…” BP Fallon recites at The 25th Vibe For Philo, Dublin January 4th 2001. Photography by Ruth Medjber

A bunch more 25th Vibe For Philo pix on BP Fallon’s Flickr

NEW YEAR’S EVE LIVE!
BP Fallon’s Wang Dang Wipeout Into Twenty-Twelve
Live from the Dublin studios of TodayFM
Four hours of mainline boogaloo
Dec 31st 2011 9pm (21.00 GMT) to Jan 1st 2012 1am (01.00 GMT)

Tomorrow (Saturday) BP Fallon yet again brings Ireland and beyond into the New Year by DJing his New Year’s Eve radio show, live on the web from the studios of TodayFM in Dublin.

Mr Fallon’s New Year shows are an institution – while BP’s critics say he should be in one.

BP Fallon’s Wang Dang Doodle is proud to have been doing this in Ireland on TodayFM for the last twelve years – the programme that starts in one year and finishes in the next – fly me to the tune.

You’ll be able to listen to BP and his tunes coming live from Ireland wherever you are on this planet. Just remember that we’re here on TodayFM

It’s this kind of music show: celebratory, a bit anarchic, lots of rock’n'roll and a few unreleased treasures, BP live in the TodayFM studio in Ireland reacting to txts and tweets and emails from across the globe. Wang Dang Wipeout Into 2012 – it’s your show too.

“If it’s the last thing you do this year…”

An extract from Standing On A Plateau – A Plateau For The Arts
- writing about the BP Fallon & The Hot Sprockeys show in Dublin last Tuesday:

“The next part of the night was not what I was expecting though! BP taking to the stage with none other than The Hot Sprockets as his band and what a band they made!! BP with his words of poetry portrayed through song provided by the great musicianship of the fantastic Sprockets… swaying to the music BP was, you could see it in his eyes and also when he closed them!!

“He just feels music around him and appreciates it for the beauty that it is!! And although he may look old and frail he can certainly can move!! Jumping out into the audience at one point and giving a dance to the lucky few that were situated around him.

“He blew me away!! I was gobsmacked! He sang a song of his friend and musical hero Van Morrison, it was called ‘Van And Gloria’… the man certainly knows how to tell a story I tell ya!! Captivating is the word!!

“Thank you BP Fallon for the great gig and the wonderful memory!!”

Read the whole Standing On A Plateau piece

“Be who you are…”

All photography by and with thanks to Clare Moyna at VenueOne

Jimi Hendrix as Father Christmas. Photo by Dezo Hoffmann

John Lennon & Yoko Ono as Father Christmas

War Is Over If You Want It – Happy Christmas from John & Yoko

Jimi – Santa Bold As Love. Photo by Dezo Hoffmann

00:00 BP Fallon aw shucks
00:12 BP Fallon’s Wang Dang Doodle – The Fuzz
01:21 Apathy Junkie – Enemies
04:00 Fuck Music – Chicks
06:16 BP verbal
07:00 Born To Be You – Enemies
11:24 Junkie Youth Blues #33 – The Fuzz
14:51 Summer Of Legs – Enemies
18:14 Rabbit from The Abbott
19:36 Robert Plant chinwag w/ BP Fallon from The BPFO Archives
21:57 BPF interviewed by John Caddell
inc live acoustic DACWASIRNR w/ Soper & Frank of The Hot Sprockets
32:42 Strychnine (excerpt; it’s strong stuff) – Bobby Gillespie
33:05 BPF interviewed by Sean Rocks
48:06 Does Anyone Care What Anyone Says In Rock’n’Roll – BP Fallon & The Hot Sprockets
51:44 Yer man being a DJ
52:46 Nobody’s Fault But Mine – Blind Willie Johnson
55:54 Rockblocker – Tieranniesaur
59:06 BP Fallon yuletude vibing
59:49 Cutter Gets Cut – Enemies
63:20 And the jingles jangling go auld triangling

Hear here!
Wang Dang Doodle featuring Enemies, on BTR

Aaron Lee Tasjan in New York by & © BP Fallon

Aaron Lee Tasjan & BP Fallon & Lenny Kaye in NYC by & © Radek

BP Fallon & The Hot Sprockets in Dublin by & © Oliver Smith

BP Fallon & Robert Plant & Vanessa Gilbert
meet the snake and the snake man, West Hollywood 1973
Photographer unknown

BP Fallon & Robert Plant in Texas by & © Nicola Powell

David McWilliams questions Annie Tierney of Tieranniesaur & BP Fallon & Bob Geldof at MindField at Electric Picnic, Ireland by & © lib-lab

BP Fallon by Maser by & © Katherine Kenny

Image by Maser

By popular demand the astounding show by BP Fallon backed by The Hot Sprockets last Tuesday in Dublin at The Workman’s Club is being rebroadcast tonight at 00.00 GMT – which in normal language is midnight tonight in Ireland and Britain, 11pm in Paris, 7pm in New York, 4pm in Los Angeles etc etc.

Simply click here: VenueOneLive

And! To intro the rebroadcast, BP will be interviewed live by Dave Fanning in the VenueOne studios. Dave will be asking BP the questions – but so can you! Just log on and ask BP anything you want:
VenueOne – log in to ask BP a question – he’ll answer anything!

Screengrab of the live streaming on Tuesday – being rebroadcast tonight with your questions to BP

“I’m not against a little darkness, I’m not against a little sin…”
BP & Tim & Soper of The Hot Sprockets by Oliver Smith

“What’s the point if you don’t have a joint
Vs What’s the fun if you don’t have a gun?”
BP Fallon & The Hot Sprockets by Conor Mooney

“Increasingly often, I’m thinking it’s the last time…”
BPF by Oliver Smith

Van And Gloria: BPF by Oliver Smith

VenueOne review by Aaron Rogan of Tuesday’s mindblaster:
“as much a show about music as it is a music show”

“Happy whatever you got
Happy whatever you want”
-BPF x

With enormous thanks to everyone

Here’s the vibe:

BP Fallon verbal – Does Anyone Care What Anyone Says In Rock’n'Roll (1.30)

BP Fallon & The Hot Sprockets – streaming live today Tuesday Dec 20th at 21.30 GMT – ie 9.30pm in Ireland & Britain, 4.30pm in New York, 1.30pm in Los Angeles etc – on VenueOne.com

BP Fallon & The Hot Sprockets poster for Dublin Tues Dec 20th 2011. Photo by Stuart Smyth in George’s Street, Dublin. Photo of BPF on the poster by Jen Maler at Terminal 5 NYC

Doors 8pm. A few tickets here!

BP Fallon talks to Barry Egan on Barry’s Radio Nova programme tonight (Sunday) at 7pm to celebrate the BP Fallon & The Hot Sprockets show in Dublin on Tuesday.

Today at 7pm ie 19.00 GMT gobally
ie New York 2pm, Los Angeles 11 pm etc:
Hear ‘BP Fallon Interview By Barry Egan’ live on Radio Nova here

With Barry Egan‘s famous probing in-depth questioning – honed by two decades writing for Ireland’s Sunday Independent plus Britain’s the NME and US magazine Creem – expect the unexpected when he sits down with BP Fallon in front of the Radio Nova microphone.

Previous guests on Barry’s show include Roger Waters, The Sex Pistols and Paul Weller.

Artist Of The Always Now, the magnificent Maser, has created a glorious poster for the gig “for my buddy BP Fallon”. Thank you brother.

Maser painted the stunning portrait of BP Fallon that adorns the outside wall of The Button Factory in Curve Street in Temple Bar in Dublin.

BP Fallon by Maser by Johnny Moy

In yesterday’s Star, Shilpa Ganatra asked our Mr Fallon “How does it feel to be the subject of graffiti artist Maser’s giant mural on Curved Street?”

Said BP “It’s probably the greatest honour I’ve ever received. I work outside of the mainstream and it seems fitting that a street artist – however renowned and respected Maser is, and he is – should give me my medal. I thank Maser and also Dublin Contemporary 2011, of which the portrait is a part. I must confess that maybe I’ve been high before – but never in a thirty foot high portrait on the side of a wall. It’s humbling”.

Work in progress – BP Fallon by Maser by Johnny Moy too

Beginning – BP Fallon by Maser by Jon Lynn

No arm in it – BP Fallon by Maser by éiresol.com

The shadow of your simile – BPF by Maser by Lucy Twitaker

The view from the good seats – BPF by Maser by lib-lab

“And we all shine on…”

Etta James – Something’s Got A Hold Of Me (1962)

Etta? One of the most emotive voices in soul ever, a volcano of passion and raw feelings of love and hurt and desire stripped to the bone, no messin’, no dressin’, just pure and naked and beautiful.

I was lucky enough to meet Etta in London in 1989, the time of her pounding Seven Year Itch album for Island Records. Meeting her in her hotel room, I interviewed this regal queen of soul as she sat there on the sofa, larger than life and humble and kind. Oh, she’d been through the mill, junkie blues and all that, for years and years and years, was still healing and thus still wounded. There was something majestic about her, something noble. Perfection is sometimes being able to cope with being who you are.

And then she went on stage and bellowed and howled and bled and burnt and opened the very heavens with this voice both raw and intimate. For twenty-five minutes she prowled the stage, this goddess of feral soul, an angel who’s tripped, stumbled and fallen crying out joyfully from the brightened shadows of redemption, triumphant in her glory, sweat pouring off her like holy water. This is it, this is the real thing.

Etta James, I love you. You are in my prayers.

-BP Fallon, Dublin Dec 17th 2011

Etta James & Chuck Berry & Keith Richards & band – Rock’n'Roll Music (1986)

Annie Tierney & BP Fallon by Kay Gourley

Annie has been a fave and friend of this parish since her schoolgirl days in Chicks and it’s gratifying to see the debut album by Tieranniesaur – titled Tieranniesaur and much spinned on BP Fallon’s Wang Dang Doodle – being hailed by many punters and critics in Ireland as Album Of The Year.

Tieranniesaur with Chris Frantz & Tina Weynouth of Tom Tom Club
by BP Fallon

Annie Tierney & BP Fallon & Bob Geldof speaking at MindField at Electric Picnic 2011 by lib-lab

Tues Dec 20th at The Workman’s Club, Dublin
BP Fallon & The Hot Sprockets
plus DJs Johnny Moy & Annie Tieranniesaur
Doors 8pm. Here be tickets

Tieranniesaur Wang Dang Doodle

Chicks Wang Dang Doodle

And on we choogle…

Honeyskippin’ – BP Fallon (centre) plus Tim Cullen &
Wayne Soper of The Hot Sprockets. Photo by Frank Kelly

00:00 BP Fallon me me me
00:26 BP Fallon’s Wang Dang Doodle – Ronnie Drew
00:36 Does Anyone Care What Anyone Says In Rock’n’Roll – BP Fallon & The Hot Sprockets
04:12 Here Be Monsters – Tieranniesaur
09:45 Honeyskippin’ – The Hot Sprockets
16:41 BP verbal
17:43 BPF & THS streaming live on VenueOne.com next Tues @ 21.30 GMT
17:43 Fame #9 (excerpt)/I Believe In Elvis Presley – BP Fallon & The Hot Sprockets
25:49 BP Fallon Interview By Jack White
30:24 Jack White Interview By BP Fallon (excerpt)
31:38 I Cut Like A Buffalo (Version 2) – The Dead Weather
35:44 Great High Mountain – Jack White
40:10 Fly Farm Blues – Jack White
43:23 Will There Be Enough Water? – The Dead Weather
49:25 BP rabbit
50:57 Heartaches And Pain – Charles Bradley
53:39 BP says Happy Christmas
54:29 Dead Mantra – The Dead Skeletons
62:55 And the jingles jangling go auld triangling

Hear here!
Wang Dang Doodle featuring BP Fallon & The Hot Sprockets, on BTR

BP Fallon & The Hot Sprockets live
Dec 20th Workman’s Club Dublin Ireland doors 8pm
Streaming live on VenueOne.com @ 21.30 GMT

BP Fallon & Jack White
Photo from Uncut Magazine by Jo McCaughey

Yuletide now & zen – BP Fallon as Old Father Time
& Marc Bolan as himself – London 1970.
Photo from Disc by Spud Murphy

Here’s the vibe:

BP Fallon verbal – Does Anyone Care What Anyone Says In Rock’n'Roll (1.30)

BP Fallon & The Hot Sprockets – streaming live on Tuesday Dec 20th at 21.30 GMT – ie 9.30pm in Ireland & Britain, 4.30pm in New York, 1.30pm in Los Angeles etc – on VenueOne.com

BP Fallon & The Hot Sprockets poster for Dublin Tues Dec 20th 2011. Photo by Stuart Smyth in George’s Street, Dublin. Photo of BPF on the poster by Jen Maler at Terminal 5 NYC

Doors 8pm. Buy tickets here!

00:00 BP Fallon doodling
00:24 BP Fallon’s Wang Dang Doodle – Ronnie Drew
00:34 Cruisin’ – The Hot Sprockets
03:17 BP intros Mr Crisp
04:20 Quentin Crisp on sex
05:55 What’s Up Doc? – Carbon/Silicon
11:37 Unbelievable Pain – Carbon/Silicon
17:45 That’s As Good As It Gets – Carbon/Silicon
22:45 BP verbal
23:42 Mick’s Jam – Gerry Groom & Mick Taylor
31:35 Wax Worship – Pontiak
37:13 Changes – Nimbus
48:01 Gramophone
48:07 This Is The One Thing We Did Not Want – The Brian Jonestown Massacre
55:02 Because A Woman – Joe King Carrasco
60:06 BP au revoir
61:28 Jon Dee Graham & The Fighting Cocks – God’s Gonna Give You What You Want
64:51 And the jingles jangling go auld triangling

Hear here!
BP Fallon’s Wang Dang Doodle featuring Quentin Crisp, on BTR

BP Fallon & The Hot Sprockets. Photo by & © lib-lab
BP Fallon & The Hot Sprockets live
Tuesday Dec 20th Workman’s Club Dublin Ireland
Tickets here!

Camille Rowe & Mick Jones. Photo by & © BP Fallon

Mick Taylor behind Big Mick on the Stones’ It’s Only Rock’n’Roll
album cover. Artwork by Guy Peellaert

Melanie Draisey of Le Volume Corbe & Willie B Carruthers
of The Brian Jonestown Massacre. Photo by & © BP Fallon

As well as doing two amazing shows backed by The Hot Sprockets – see below – and talking on a panel with Bob Geldof and Annie Tierney of Tieranniesaur moderated by David McWilliams and doing a recitation in the Science Tent… our man managed to ride the ferris wheel with Pixie and somehow the two heroes of our yarn ended up in outer space
(as one does).

Up in space, the pair hear someone singing BP’s record ‘I Believe In Elvis Presley’ (as one does). Pixie created her GoAnimate to celebrate… well, everything, really…

***Christmas Show Of The Year!***
BP FALLON & The HOT SPROCKETS live & vibey rock’n'roll
Dublin Workman’s Club Tues Dec 20th 8pm
€12 Ticketmaster
Pus! DJ: Johnny Moy.
Where would you get it?

“I believe Lewis Carroll, I believe in Oscar Wilde, I believe in Muddy Waters, I believe in Jackson 5″ – Soper on guitar and BP on vocals get rocking with BP Fallon & The Hot Sprockets (screengrab)

The Pixie On The Ferris Wheel by BP Fallon