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September 12 2011

Video: BP Fallon & The Hot Sprockets – Fame #9 (excerpt)/I Believe In Elvis Presley

BP Fallon & The Hot Sprockets, Magic, Music, Rock'n'Roll, Spoken Word

“BP Fallon gives a stunning performance. He’s backed by The Hot Sprockets, a fiery Dublin blues band that more than do the legendary Beep justice” – Craig Fitzpatrick, Hot Press, reviewing Electric Picnic. BP Fallon & The Hot Sprockets – Fame #9 (excerpt)/I Believe In Elvis Presley. Filmed by Richard Walshe in MindField at Electric Picnic 2011 BP Fallon & The Hot Sprockets BP Fallon – vox Wayne Soper – guitar/vox Tim Cullen – guitar/vox Franky Kelly – harmonica/mandolin/vox Joe Lynch – bass/vox Andy Sutton – drums BP Fallon & The Hot Sprockets by Barney @ lib-lab Honeyskippin’… 🙂

September 9 2011

Voices Of America – “A toughening of the soul”

9/11

The World Trade Center by Barney @ lib-lab Nearly ten years ago, reeling from the shock of what had happened, we asked permission from BP Fallon’s friends to publish their emails to him about 9/11. Many emails were from New York, from friends such as Lenny Kaye of The Patti Smith Group and Bob Gruen who managed to photograph the horror from New Jersey where he’d gone to get his car fixed. These messages – first published on bpfallon.com almost a decade ago – tell in a most intimate way the story of shock and hurt and determination, from heartache […]

September 9 2011

Morgan O’Kane Wang Dang Doodle

BP Fallon's Wang Dang Doodle, Magic, Music, Rock'n'Roll

Wang Dang Doodle Artist Of The Week – from New York via Appalachia – Morgan O’Kane Morgan O’Kane by BP Fallon 00:00 BP Fallon tucks it in 00:26 BP Fallon’s Wang Dang Doodle – Ronnie Drew 01:36 Freddie’s Lapels – D Charles Speer & The Helix 04:47 Baby Says (acoustic) – The Kills 08:04 Nobody’s Fault But Mine – Blind Willie Johnson 11:12 Hello Soul – Morgan O’Kane 14:39 BP verbal 15:46 Penn Avenue – Morgan O’Kane 19:33 Railroad Blues – Morgan O’Kane 23:57 Bess St – White Denim 27:36 Views – Lightning Raiders 31:02 Lost In Translation – Mark […]

September 7 2011

BP Fallon Sprock’n’Roll

BP Fallon & The Hot Sprockets, Magic, Music, Rock'n'Roll, Spoken Word

BP Fallon & The Hot Sprockets shakin’ it in the Leviathan tent by Barney @ lib-lab BP Fallon and Dublin’s honeyskippin’ vibers The Hot Sprockets teamed up for the first time ever to perform twice at the Electric Picnic Music And Arts Festival in Ireland. It was amazing. Playing the songs written in America by Mr Fallon & his Bandits, the five-piece Dublin combo plus the Irish lead vocalist from New York made their world debut at Salty Dog – the enfant terrible of the Picnic, in the woods on an abandoned old wreck of a boat with a stage […]

September 7 2011

Buddy Holly 75th Birthday

Brown Bread, Magic, Music, Rock'n'Roll

The brilliant Buddy Holly would have been 75 today. Songwriter, singer, guitarist… one of the greatest of the greats. Buddy Holly And The Crickets play That’ll Be The Day The Ed Sullivan Show Dec 1st 1957 “Rock’n’roll specialists” Buddy Holly And The Crickets play Peggy Sue The Arthur Murray Dance Party Dec 29th 1957 The earliest footage of Elvis – this silent colour clip shot in 1955 in Oklahoma City – with Scotty Moore and Bill Black plus Carl Perkins and Johnny Cash as well as a mindblown Buddy Holly looking on with his pals Jerry Allison (Crickets’ drummer) and […]