BP FALLON: FROM NEW YORK TO CLONAKILTY WITH DEATH DISCO

Rock legend BP Fallon brings the Clonakilty Guitar Festival to a rocking climax when he and his international rock’n’roll party Death Disco appear at The Imperial Hotel on Sunday September 23, with lauded Cork heroes The Frank And Walters supplying the live music and DJ BP rocking your socks off until the wee hours.

“I’m delighted to be playing in Clonakilty” says BP from New York. “I feel a strong connection with Clon through Noel Redding, a dear friend ever since his days as bassplayer with Jimi Handix. Noel lived and died in Clon, bless him. I’ve very fond memories of the Clonakilty Busking Festival on which I was a judge with Noel and even now, I can see us sitting in the sunshine in Emmet Square listening to the buskers. Great times. And my Godson Danny Dennehy, he lives in Clon”.

Fallon spends most of his time in America where he and his Death Disco party play in New York every week. Indeed, the influential magazine Time Out New York gushes “Death Disco is now slaying ‘em here in New York”. The most celebrated night in Manhattan has fans like Kate Moss – who’s been spotted on the Death Disco dancefloor shaking a tailfeather with BP as well as joining him in the DJ booth – and actress Liv Tyler, while the likes of Courtney Love has DJed with him at Death Disco in London and Shane MacGowan has DJed at DDs in Dublin and Belfast.

BP kicked off his musical career while still at school in Dublin when as a teenager he appeared on the tv show Pickin’ The Pops every Saturday on the infant Telefis Eireann, before introducing Ireland to this new-fangled rock music on his Radio Eireann programme Sounds Like BP Fallon which included live interviews with Jimi Hendix and BP’s British counterpart John Peel.

Moving to London, BP worked at The Beatles’ Apple Records – where one of his jobs was testing Paul McCartney’s grass – before becoming publicist to T.Rex and Led Zeppelin and Bob Geldof’s Boomtown Rats.

But DJing has always been in Fallon’s blood. He has DJed on tours by Rolling Stone Keith Richards and U2 and these days travels the world with Death Disco.

“The menu is music and fun, with people having a mighty bop on the dancefloor” notes BP on the Transatlantic telephone, adding “It’s only rock’n’roll”. And we like it.

DEATH DISCO at The Imperial Hotel, Clonakilty on Sunday Sept 25. Live music by The Frank And Walters with DJ and MC BP Fallon. Doors 8pm, until 2.30am. Admission only E10.

For more Death Disco info and photos, see
www.bpfallon.com

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