BP Fallon

BP Fallon @ Science Gallery’s IGNITE Tomorrow night BP Fallon appears in an evening of eclectic experimentation and pulse-raising performances as part of Trinity College Dublin’s Science Gallery presentation ‘Biorhythm Live: Music And The Body’. The three-part ‘Biorhythm Live’ festival embraces ‘Rhythm’, ‘Voice’ and tomorrow evening’s presentation ‘Emotion’. Among those joining our Mr Fallon to perform and speak in what promises to be a most stimulating and spirited evening are Gavin Friday, cellist Kate Ellis, fiddle-player Caoimhin O’Raghaillaigh, Ben Knapp (SARC), music therapist Angela De Burca and TCD professor Fiona Newell. The evening will be hosted by Gerry Godley. After […]

Yesterday Sept 13 was the 1st Anniversary of me cutting my ‘Fame #9’ 45 with Jack White in Nashville – which has on the ‘B’ side as well as ‘I Believe In Elvis Presley’ the track ‘BP Fallon Interview By Jack White’. To celebrate, we swapped roles and this time I was the interviewer and Jack White was the interviewee. We had a brilliant rabbit. Our chinwag can be heard in the BBC Radio 1 documentary ‘A Star And A Stripe’ which airs in November. I love this man. Screengrab: Jack White in ‘It Might Get Loud’ Photography: Jack White […]

In the time it takes to walk across the road and into Primrose Hill park Robert Plant has already squeezed in stories about Noddy Holder’s father, BP Fallon and Alexis Korner. He is dressed like a teenage backpacker, and an impressive array of blond-grey ringlets still spills down his back. “When I go to north Africa they think I’m a chick,” he says. He spots an empty bench and breaks into a trot: “Quick, before anyone else gets it.” An avuncular presence, he wears his legacy lightly, has a wicked sense of humour and tells you some jaw-dropping stories. Off […]

LIFE’S A GAS I could have loved you girl Like a planet I could have chained your heart To a star But it really doesn’t matter at all But it really doesn’t matter at all Life’s a gas. I hope it’s gonna last. I could have built a house On the ocean I could placed your love In the sky I could have turned you into a priestess I could have burned Your fate in the sand – words & music by Marc Bolan Photography: Marc Bolan & BP Fallon May 14th 1971 by Spud Murphy Vibing in the dressing […]