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Kansas City’s excellent Lovers In Transit get played and toasted on Irish music person extraordinaire B.P. Fallon’s Breakthru Radio show Wang Dang Doodle #16.

The first person I ever heard utter the word ‘vibe’ was B.P. Fallon. It was on Irish radio some time in the 1970s.

And Beep is also the most recent person I’ve heard say ‘vibe’. That’s impressive.

A couple of years ago when B.P. was standing in for Tom Dunne on Today FM I got him to give Kansas City a shout and to read a brief story involving Sigue Sigue Sputnik and Eamon Carr of Horslips fame. Of course it was really about me but back then I didn’t have the mouthpiece that is Irish KC.

I referred to him as a music person because, like Phil Lynott, I don’t know what to call him. Yes he’s a DJ on the radio, but he’s also a live DJ with Alan McGee (Oasis, Jesus and Mary Chain, I could go on forever).

And though he doesn’t mention it when he plays them on this show, BP is also the manager of Semi Precious Weapons who may yet end up being one of the biggest bands around, if only by selling jewellery.

Anyway if we must have Glam Rock again, give me Semi Precious Weapons over the Darkness. Or give me Kansas City’s Lovers In Transit. The KC chaps and chapesses, as Beep calls them, are quite at home here on Wang Dang Doodle, though I will admit my favourite track played on this show is I Created Disco from Scotland’s Calvin Harris.

More on Fallon? After intial rejection he finally wormed himself into John Lennon’s affection, or at least into the Plastic Ono Band in so much as it existed. And he was with Marc Bolan as they grew into T-Rex. You’ll find him name-checked on their Telegram Sam.

More? He was responsible for the U2 Faraway So Close photograph book, and the Zoo Radio thing that went with that Zoo TV tour. Before I left Dublin I would see B.P. walking around town with Sinead O’Connor.

Actually you could name drop his associations forever. Led Zeppelin. The Sex Pistols. The Dubliners.

In the 1980s in Ireland I was a regular listener to his BPFO on whatever 2FM was called back then, a programme where Fallon spoke to everybody from Spike Milligan to Quentin Crisp. You decide who falls into that range.

If you want to know more, apart obviously from his own site, you could check out a wonderful interview with him on You Tube by Harley Sears. I watched this a few weeks ago and it’s in 5 parts.

And who is Harley Sears ? As well as being a rock ‘n’ roll photographer, he’s based in Kansas City, and is the manager on tour of Lovers in Transit

And now my MySpace friends in Kansas City, Lovers in Transit feature on BP’s Wang Dang Doodle playing Spinning My Wheels. What a great world.

The first posters ever on my bedroom wall were of Marc Bolan and T-Rex, Roy Wood and Wizzard, Mud, Sweet, and Slade.

They were also the last posters on my bedroom wall. Because I wanted to grow up to look like Roy Wood. I got there.

Before you laugh, you Celtic Rock loving hordes you, remember that your original Celtic Rock band, Horslips, were also a glam rock outfit. Something about carpets in Belfast.

Listen to more from Lovers in Transit on their MySpace.

See Related (Really):
   • Morrissey Came to Kansas City
   • Growing up in Dublin with U2
   • Listening to Irish Radio in 1993
   • Horslips and Dearg Doom
   • Irish Music Changes Nothing
   • Irish Music Charts 20 Years Ago and Today
   • Little Judy’s trying to watch “Top of the Pops”

This entry was posted on Friday, August 17th, 2007 at 4:41 pm and is filed under 1-eolai, BP Fallon, Horslips, Nostalgia, radio. You can follow responses via my RSS 2.0 feed. Both comments and pings are currently closed.