Posts Tagged ‘Eccentronic Research Council’

MOONLANDINGZ – ” Interplanetary Class Classics “

Posted: February 3, 2018 in CLASSIC ALBUMS, MUSIC
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The Moonlandingz – comprised of members of the Eccentronic Research Council and Fat White Family – are Hale-Bopping their way into our consciousness with this blistering debut: a sonic rollercoaster that ricochets somewhere between Earl Brutus and The Cramps, the nihilistic vocal stylings of Nick Cave and a swaggering zombie Elvis. The band have just released a MOONLANDINGZ DELUXE version of this acclaimed album. 

The Moonlandingz—the outer space troupe featuring members of the Fat White Family and Eccentronic Research Council—have readied this special edition of their lauded debut full-length, Interplanetary Class Classics.

The Sean Lennon-produced LP was picked on BBC 6Music’s top albums of the year,

Out January. 26th, the deluxe version features the original 11 compositions, plus 20 bonus songs. These tracks include b-sides from all the EPs, remixes, unheard demos, and more.

Special guests include Philip Oakey of The Human League, Yoko Ono, and Randy Jones of the Village People.

The band’s Adrian Flanagan says, “It’s nice to have all these tracks in one place, so to draw a line under what’s gone and make way for our future, next to the greats. We may not be there when you want us but we will be there when you truly need us. Till then, we are observing your earth!”

 A new version of “Sweet Saturn Mine,” featuring Philip Oakey of the Human League.

Among the eerie swirling synthesizers and infectious singalong melodies is a well-crafted opus of total cosmic bedlam. It also features guest vocals from Yoko Ono, Phil Oakey, Rebecca Taylor of Slow Club and Randy Jones aka the Cowboy from The Village People. Expertly crafted, Interplanetary Class Classics exists truly in a class of its own.Absolutely fucking mental. Really the review could be that first sentence and still be entirely encapsulating of what is an incredible album. Unrestrained and entirely liberated The Moonlandingz take on everything and everyone in this LP.

While there are some more ‘dance floor ready’ tracks (Sweet Saturn Mine is a particular favourite), it also features that enigmatic swashbuckler Johnny Rocket (Lias Saoudi of FWF) getting all croony. This album calrifies The Moonlandingz as the supergroup they’ve always professed to be. ‘The Strangle Of Anna’, might be the best track of the year too.

The MOONLANDINGZ – ” Black Hanz “

Posted: October 24, 2017 in MUSIC
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The Moonlandingz are a semi-fictional outsider Ouija pop group invoking all of the special powers of the super-group. This particular incarnation includes members of Fat White Family and The Eccentronic Research Council. Their co-producer Sean Lennon adds a final bit of clout to this rambunctious union of comedy with serious pop-rock credentials. Their conceptual history comes complete with a stalker called Maxine Peake. The band members also have a predilection towards bread jewellery and mustard hair gel. Apart from being talented, funny and dressed like a human sandwich, it has also been reported that they stink. Iggy Pop would like them, and Johnny Rotten would eat a sandwich off the frontman’s face. Does that make sense? There’s a fictional part of us wanting to corner one of them to see if it’s all for show, but we don’t have the guts for that kind of sandwich. The Moonlandingz are totally believable.

Space rock collective The Moonlandingz widely praised as one of the best live bands in the UK at present, Their shows can be ‘Magnificent, cosmic and batshit’ while The Guardian have hailed their ‘Feral antics and louche anarchy’ onstage. Comprising of Eccentronic Research Council’s Adrian Flanagan and Dean Honer alongside Fat White Family’s Lias Saoudi (aka frontman Johnny Rocket) and Saul Adamczewski, following a year’s worth of incendiary gigs, the outfit have confirmed their debut LP ‘Interplanetary Class Classics’ will appear end of March.
Combining propulsive synth loops, glam rock guitars and off kilter pop melodies, the disc was produced at Sean Lennon’s studio in upstate New York and features contributions from Yoko Ono, the Human League’s Phil Oakey, Slow Club’s Rebecca Taylor and Arctic Monkeys/MIA producer Ross Orton on drums. 

The MOONLANDINGZ – ” This Cities Undone EP “

Posted: October 5, 2017 in CLASSIC ALBUMS, MUSIC
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The Moonlandingz – the band born from a semi fictional concept album by Sheffield electronic analogue weirdos the ‘Eccentronic Research Council’ and fronted by Fat White Family frontman, Lias Saoudi – have shared their brand new This Cities Undone EP, ahead of their forthcoming and fast-selling UK headline tour dates.

The extended player includes a single version of album closer ‘This Cities Undone’ featuring guest vocals from Yoko Ono and Human League’s Phil Oakey, alongside a Confidence Man remix and new cut ‘Dirty Red Rose’.

“I’m a big fan of Yoko’s 70’s albums like Approximately Infinite Universe,” the band’s Adrian Flanagan said. “During a late night semi drunken recording session, I suggested to Sean Lennon – who we were working with up at his studio in upstate New York – that this crazy psychedelic freak out track that we had on the boil – but had no lyrics for – could really work with Yoko doing her thing on it. Sean got it straight away, said that he thought it was a good idea and after that brief suggestion it was never mentioned again… About two months later I’m at a tiny gig in some old spoon factory in Sheffield, watching a bloke play a home made synth in a shoe box with a wind up clockwork parrot sat on his shoulder, when I get an email off Sean titled MUMLANDINGZ. In the email was a video clip of his mum doing this incredible vocal over our music… The hair on the back of my neck stood on end, her voice stirs you like the most primal of rock and roll, it’s got so much spirit, it’s proper witchcraft!

“After receiving the Yoko vocal, Lias Saoudi and I set about writing some words for the track back in Sheffield. A week or so later we got our friends Philip Oakey and Rebecca Taylor to come and sing on the track and then Dean Honer and I went back to NYC to mix it,” he added.

“It was a song that went on quite a journey, but it was worth every bit of the trip. I see the track as a celebration of the activist in us all, the downtrodden, the ignored, people bullied by their local council, the government, the CEO’s in the workplace, the people you never voted for making a complete pig’s ear of running your cities, lunching out on decent hard working taxpayers money, whilst thousands of kids sleep rough in the street and whilst tower blocks burn. We live in frightening times, under the pretense of a so called democracy and something’s got to give!”

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The MOONLANDINGZ – ” Sweet Saturn Mine ” feat Sean Lennon

Posted: August 14, 2015 in MUSIC
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THE MOONLANDINGZ are a ‘fictional band’ featuring Lias & Saul from the FAT WHITE FAMILY and Adrian & Dean from analogue, audio taxidermists ,The ECCENTRONIC RESEARCH COUNCIL…The video was Directed by CHARLOTTE KEMP MUHL the girlfriend and long time bass player in Sean Lennon’s band The Ghost Of the Sabre Tooth tiger was astounded when he saw psychedelic punks Fat White Family for the first time at a South by Southwest party last year. “They’re one of the best live bands I’ve ever seen,” he says. “We became really good friends.” Lennon has since helped the band co-produce their upcoming second album, and now he’s teaming with them for a new side project, the Moonlandingz. The band’s lineup features Lennon and Charlotte Kemp Muhl (The Ghost of a Saber Tooth Tiger), Fat White Family’s Lias Saoudi (vocals) and Saul Adamczewski (guitar), and members of U.K. electronic avant-garde group the Eccentronic Research Council for a 10-inch EP on Lennon and Muhl’s label, Chimera Music, out October 30th.

The whole thing was born basically out of this fictional fantasy,” Lennon says of the Moonlandingz. He explains that earlier this year, the Eccentronic Research Council and Fat White Family teamed up for Johnny Rocket, Narcissist & Music Machine… I’m Your Biggest Fan, a largely spoken-word record about a fictional band called the Moonlandingz and an obsessed stalker fan. “It’s done quite well in England,” Lennon says. Now, the Moonlandingz are coming to life, with a full-length album on the way. “It started as a fictional band, and it sort of stepped through the fourth wall — like Purple Rose of Cairo or something,” adds Lennon.

The group’s new video for their brooding “Sweet Saturn Mine (Sean Lennon De-Mix)” was directed by Muhl during about six hours spent in the moldy basement of a run-down dance hall in England. The group conceived of a “Luciferian Kenneth Anger cult ritual,” with Lennon playing what he describes as a “gypsy wizard.” “We were just trying to entertain ourselves. The whole thing was us just laughing and having fun. And when Saul killed Lias — that was just too much.”

Taken from THE MOONLANDINGZ – EXPANDED EP (U.S. Release only).

The MOONLANDINGZ – ” Sweet Saturn Mine ” feat The Fat White Family

Posted: February 15, 2015 in MUSIC
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The songs of The Moonlandingz are a collaboration between the North & South of England’s Premier Outsider Voodoo music makers & analogue audio taxidermists, the ECCENTRONIC RESEARCH COUNCIL & THE FAT WHITE FAMILY.

This fictional group, ‘The Moonlandingz’, feature as part of the Eccentronic Research Council’s forthcoming concept album, ‘Johnny Rocket, Narcissist & Music Machine..I’m Your Biggest Fan!!’. (coming May 2015) which again, features narration throughout by the Uk’s finest actress, Maxine Peake.
The album tells the story from the point of view of a woman obsessed by the lead singer (Johnny Rocket) of an up & coming local band (The Moonlandingz), based in a ex – mining village in South Yorkshire.
This is not mere ‘mental illness, as show bizness’..this will be a cerebral trip for those fans that are in deep and for those in glass houses , pretending, not to see through the same eyes.
Preceding the album, there will be a digital EP of original tracks released by the MOONLANDINGZ (February 2015) both on FWF own imprint Without Consent Records via [PIAS].
The video was Directed by critically acclaimed, British Cult Horror Film Maker, Steven Shield.

featuring the Bafta–nominated Maxine Peake as a crazed stalker of a fictional band made up of members of the Fat White Family.

“Sweet Saturn Mine” is the lead track taken from the Moonlandingz’ EP out on 16th March – a collaboration between the Fat Whites and Eccentronic Research Council. Written from the perspective of a fan of a small-time local band – the infatuation with the group tips into obsession, before plummeting dramatically into something far more sinister.

Following the release of the EP, the Eccentronic Research Council’s fourth album, Johnny Rocket, Narcissist and Music Machine … I’m Your Biggest Fan and will be released on 18 May.