BP Fallon - what is he famous for??

Beechwoodspark

In fairness to him he seems to have managed to scrabble some kind of career out of all the name dropping. Well done "dude"!

Hitchens

actually he is the 2nd oldest teenager in Ireland ............after Larry Gogan

Beechwoodspark

Larry is untouchable !!

Aidric

Azalea wrote: »

Do you mean this lad, Aidric?

(Of course it's very easy to mix them up).

No. Bolger looks like Philomena Begley on heroin. BP looks more like Michael Stipe.

Busted Flat.

runningbuddy wrote: »

This is bugging me...what is he? a journalist, musician, what?? Heard him spouting about his "friendship" with Bowie during the week...sounds like a bit of a tool to be honest...:mad:

RTE rings him when they can't contact anyone with something to say. Something like a Christmas stocking filler.

Grandeeod

runningbuddy wrote: »

This is bugging me...what is he? a journalist, musician, what?? Heard him spouting about his "friendship" with Bowie during the week...sounds like a bit of a tool to be honest...:mad:

He's an Irish Rock God!:D

In all reality he's an aging wannabe that bummed around the place during the 60s and 70s achieving nothing much. My own memories of the guy date back to the 80s when I was listening to what the decade was offering, both mainstream and alternative. But our BP Fallon was having none of it and always offered some other ****e. The Irish music scene took him in and he became kind of like a spokesperson and probably killed off a few bands while he was at it.

Always annoyed me because his kind destroyed decent Irish bands, sucked up to U2 and eventually paved the way for Boyzone.

C.K Dexter Haven

Hitchens wrote: »

actually he is the 2nd oldest teenager in Ireland ............after Larry Gogan

Actually not a bad description at all.

StewartGriffin

elperello wrote: »

Also, for a while he breathed the same air as John Lennon and Yoko. Pretty cool as he might say himself.

It's not that cool though is it. I almost certainly have atoms in my body that were once part of both Lennon and McCartney. Don't see me on the Late Late blowing about it.

Azalea

He got relatively close to John Lennon though (most fans were never going to register on his radar as individuals) - interviewed him at a pivotal time in his career and worked at Apple Records and mimed with Lennon's backing band on TOTP. Not groundbreaking achievements naturally, but still, getting to know someone like John Lennon personally was no easy feat.

It is annoying the way he's made out to be a superstar here (at times - not that much in fairness) but I guess he has interesting stories.

Cookie_Dough

The fact that he's referred to /refers to himself as "beep" makes him so much more annoying.

Grid.

Crawling after Robert Plant.....hoping to get famous.

my friend

Azalea wrote: »

He got relatively close to John Lennon though.

As did Mark David Chapman

Pinch Flat

Grandeeod wrote: »

He's an Irish Rock God!:D

In all reality he's an aging wannabe that bummed around the place during the 60s and 70s achieving nothing much. My own memories of the guy date back to the 80s when I was listening to what the decade was offering, both mainstream and alternative. But our BP Fallon was having none of it and always offered some other ****e. The Irish music scene took him in and he became kind of like a spokesperson and probably killed off a few bands while he was at it.

Always annoyed me because his kind destroyed decent Irish bands, sucked up to U2 and eventually paved the way for Boyzone.

I'm probably of a similar vintage to yourself - an oul fella :pac:

For me he was one of the best djs - perhaps an Irish version of peel - on radio 2 as it was at the time - an encyclopaedic knowledge of music of that era (mid to late 80s for me). A week wouldn't go by where I wouldn't catch his show, trying desperately to set the oul tape recorder to pick up a few tunes. Good times.

But yeah agree him and fanning put u2 up on a pedestal to the detriment of other bands. Blue in heaven being a particular favourite of mine at the time. Other bands like the stunning, that petrol emotion, something happens, perhaps even Aslan could have had much more successful international exposure and careers if u2 hadn't existed.

First Up

I recall that he absolutely hated Queen - really loathed them and never missed a chance to slag them off. Assume he must have been turned away from a ligging opportunity.

I think he saw himself as a cross between John Peel and Hunter S Thompson. Maybe still does.

Pink Fairy

He was the opening dj on U2's Zoo-tv tour, that much I do remember

My dad (a punk at the time) knocked him out in The Baggot Inn because he did his head in with his pretentious name-dropping.

mrsdewinter

Beechwoodspark wrote: »

Larry is untouchable !!

Which reminds me: has anyone heard from Larry over the past few days? Did he pay any tribute to Bowie?

mr_edge_to_you

Azalea wrote: »

He got relatively close to John Lennon though (most fans were never going to register on his radar as individuals) - interviewed him at a pivotal time in his career and worked at Apple Records and mimed with Lennon's backing band on TOTP. Not groundbreaking achievements naturally, but still, getting to know someone like John Lennon personally was no easy feat.

It is annoying the way he's made out to be a superstar here (at times - not that much in fairness) but I guess he has interesting stories.

I'd heard that he'd played bass with John Lennon on TOTP. Disappointed if he was actually miming as you say.

The Master

BP Fallon
Smiley Bolger
Brush Shiels
Philomena Begly
The Baggott inn

What decade am I in?????

trashcan

Aidric wrote: »

No. Bolger looks like Philomena Begley on heroin. BP looks more like Michael Stipe.

Top marks.

NIMAN

The Emperor is naked.

Sounds like a man who can created his own hype and people have bought into it.

He's nearly 70, time he grew up and caught himself on.

Azalea

Is there maybe some jealousy of his life working with and hanging out with big rock music names in the 70s?

I get that he's annoying but I think it's dishonest to claim he did absolutely nothing. He would have worked hard and was a musician, writer and presenter in his own right.

Fleawuss

Deleted User wrote: »

My dad (a punk at the time) knocked him out in The Baggot Inn because he did his head in with his pretentious name-dropping.

Hmm. Would your Dad have dropped you for pointing out that he dropped a pretentious name dropper for dropping names. Probably.
:pac:

Grandeeod

Pinch Flat wrote: »

I'm probably of a similar vintage to yourself - an oul fella :pac:

But yeah agree him and fanning put u2 up on a pedestal to the detriment of other bands. Blue in heaven being a particular favourite of mine at the time. Other bands like the stunning, that petrol emotion, something happens, perhaps even Aslan could have had much more successful international exposure and careers if u2 hadn't existed.

Same vintage alright.:D The bands you mention and particularly Blue in Heaven, absolutely suffered at the hands of the Fallon/Fanning/U2 factor. The incessant search for the "next U2" piled so much pressure on bands, a pressure that wasn't helped at all by the likes of Fallon. The years 1984 - 1989 in particular, were filled with some great Irish bands that didn't stand a chance in the shadow of U2 and an Irish media.

fryup

Say what you like about BP Fallon, but you can't fault him for his forthright honesty...i had to admire him on Liveline the other day when he went against the grain and contradicted the guy from Aslan when saying the 1987 Glass Spider Bowie concert at Slane was crap, which it was and i should know i was there

Fleawuss

Fleawuss wrote: »

Hmm. Would your Dad have dropped you for pointing out that he dropped a pretentious name dropper for dropping names. Probably.
:pac:

He wouldn't put up with your smart-ar*ery for sure.