BP Fallon

“I was rolling a joint in a club in New York and Jack White came over to me and asked me to make a record with him.” It’s the sort of sentence only one person could have uttered, writes Brian Boyd in The Ticket in today’s Irish Times before continuing: We all know that Irish musical Zelig BP Fallon can talk the talk but he’s also walked the walk: working with The Beatles’ Apple label in the 1960s, being T.Rex’s press officer, working with Led Zeppelin, representing Ian Dury, managing Johnny Thunders, touring with U2 and now, with Alan McGee, […]

Tonight at 7pm GMT BP Fallon is the special guest of Dave Fanning in the one-off RTE 2FM live radio programme ‘Is Death A Good Career Move In Rock’n’Roll?’ This sick-but-serious show promises to showcase everyone from Led Zeppelin and The Ramones to Nirvana, The Clash, Buddy Holly, Johnny Kidd And The Pirates, Willie De Ville, Johnny Thunders and The Jimi Hendrix Experience to T.Rex, Michael Jackson, The Cramps, The Fabs and Elvis. BP will be doing rabbit and recollections and asking the question “Is Elvis really brown bread and hanging out with Old Shep?” Hear it live here at […]

To mark Elvis Presley’s 75th Birthday, BP Fallon guested live this evening on Ireland’s national radio station Today FM on ‘The Last Word’ programme hosted by Matt Cooper Happy 75th Birthday, Elvis! ‘I Believe In Elvis Presley’ – video stills and out-takes and more Photography: Elvis at All Tomorrow’s Parties ‘Nightmare Before Christmas 2009’ by BPF

Photography: Alan McGee & BP Fallon DJ at Death Disco by Barney Alan McGee writes: Spoken word has become a lost art in rock’n’roll – so give thanks to the White Stripes frontman for reviving the genre. “I believe in vinyl records/I believe in MP3/I believe in Tutti Frutti/I believe in R&B/I believe in psychedelics/I believe in LSD…” The above words are from BP Fallon’s spoken word and rock’n’roll instructional record ‘I Believe in Elvis Presley’. Fallon is a personal friend, cultural raconteur, DJ, writer, photographer and now a musical spoken-word poet (with the help of Jack White’s Third Man […]