On Dec 1, 1985, “A Good Heart” by Feargal Sharkey was enjoying its second week at No. 1 single in Ireland. Meanwhile, BP was playing “Rockin’ at Midnight,” from Robert Plant and The Honeydrippers show in Dallas in June of the same year, Lloyd Cole, Talking Heads, The Staples Singers, Sir Douglas Quintet, The Beatles, Nick Lowe, Gene Vincent and the Blue Cats, Aretha Franklin, Etta James, Jesus and Mary Chain, Kirsty MacColl, Grace Jones and Artists Against Apartheid.
Throughout the course of the show, BP mentioned Lloyd Cole and The Commotions playing Dublin that week, and the ongoing anti-apartheid marches taking place throughout Ireland at the time.

Dec 1, '85: BP Fallon's Nothing Special [AGFA, Side A]

BP Fallon is a legend in the music world. A storied manager, publicist and friend of some of the world's best-known artists, he also hosted radio shows in the 1980's on Ireland's RTE 2FM. 
On Saturday nights, he hosted the BP Fallon Orchestra (BPFO), an interview-and-listen format. 
On Sunday nights, 9-10pm, it was BP Fallon's Nothing Special (BPFN), a music show where BP often dug into the past, introducing new audiences to musical dynamite that was often dismissed by the mainstream. 

The recordings here are from a batch of cassette tape recordings I made live from the radio from approximately 1984-1986. The one-hour format of the show wasn't very conducive to tapes, which were 45 minutes per side. So, I would record them, skip the ads, and sometimes skip tracks I already had captured, and occasionally edited BP's commentary, all of which I regret today, as it would have completed the time capsule.

Posted with gratitude to BP Fallon, who taught me a lot about music and has influenced my musical taste ever since.

About Rochey: "Sunday nights in the mid-80's were the highlight of my week. Whatever I was doing, I had to be home before 9pm so I could position myself the family's stereo system in our back room, fingers on the record+play buttons, ready to "BP Fallon's Nothing Special" on RTE 2FM. I recorded almost every show during that period, all the way up to BP’s very last one. 

After keeping those cassettes with me for almost 40 years, I finally bought a tape-to-USB converter, and will be posting the digitized shows over the coming months.”

Dec 1, '85: BP Fallon's Nothing Special [AGFA, Side A]

Rochey's Box of Cassettes