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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 – ” The Strangle Of Anna ” feat Rebecca Lucy Taylor

Posted: December 21, 2017 in CLASSIC ALBUMS, MUSIC
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“Deluxe Editions of albums are usually only awarded to bonafide classics… ‘Interplanetary Class Classics’ is and will forever be, a bonafide classic released in March 24th, old folks with tricky legs and leaking midriffs the world over will say it was ’20 years ago to the day’ that they tried to buy the album of the Epoch but the 500 copies manufactured had sold out in 5 minutes flat in branches of B&M bargains and Wilkinsons, forever committing the artist to that struggling, low fee, indie band bracket – instead of being the genuine top 20 artists that they should have been, Top 20 Stars even!

Alas – with no time for bitterness to fester and after an intensive tour of the world, we, The Moonlandingz, were able to pull back some dignity and glory by simply being ‘the best live group off the planet’ – and as a Unit we put a new found yearning in to the hearts of those entranced by the sheer brilliance of our kind of pop music, Moonlandingz music!

It is for those bewildered and wide eyed Kooks that we bring you this – A Deluxe Edition of our ‘Legendary Lost’ Long player, which comes with a 2nd CD containing an extra hour of music, such as, all the EP B-sides, Remixes, unheard tracks, charming demos & the more curious experimental soundtrack side of our incredible, yet impeccably stylish audio arsenal! Not joking aside – 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!”
Adrian Flanagan, Organ grinder for The Moonlandingz, Valhalla Dale, South Yorkshire. X

Taken from the debut album “Interplanetary Class Classics” Released March 24th 2017  on Transgressive Records (UK/EU) & Chimera Music (U.S.)

Video for brand new single ‘BLACK HANZ‘ by The Moonlandingz. Directed by Charlotte Kemp Muhl.

THE MOONLANDINGZ – ” This Cities Undone “

Posted: October 24, 2017 in MUSIC
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The Moonlandingz are about to start their final tour of the year, and in time for that, here’s an EP around the track This Cities Undone – that first appeared on their debut album Interplanetary Class Classics. There is a brand new song – Dirty Red Rose, a remix by Confidence Man, and a single version of the title track featuring guest vocals by Yoko Ono and Human League’s Phil Oakey.

“I’m a big fan of Yoko’s 70’s albums like Approximately Infinite Universe and 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 2 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 (Human League) and Rebecca Taylor (Self Esteem) to come and sing on the track and then Dean Honer & I went back to NYC to mix it. 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 pretence of a so called democracy and something’s got to give!”
The whole EP can be heard now, and it’ll be coming out on 10″ next month

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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 – ” The Strangle Of Anna ” Feat Rebecca Taylor of Slow Club

Posted: February 21, 2017 in MUSIC
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The Moonlandingz, have returned with an upcoming tour and a new track featuring Rebecca Taylor of Slow Club, ‘The Strangle of Anna’.

The track is a bit of a difference to their otherwise rambunctious and fearful sound. This track sounds more like a fantastical pop duet in the guise of a heroin addled punk poem. Adrian Flanagan said of the song “We wrote the song from the viewpoint of the girlfriend of some cliched, self-absorbed, pound-shop indie Lou Reed wannabe, who plays in some velvets/ Mary chain-esque shoddy local band..You know the type , sociopathic skinny boys in leather jackets and winkle pickers, with cry baby, light weight, borderline drug problem – and with egos that far outweighs their talent for playing the chords, C, F and G through a fuzz guitar pedal, drenched in reverb. I think every woman has a tale about being with such Grade A Black Clouds!!”

The song has been ripped form the upcoming LP Interplanetary Class Classics and features guest spots from Yoko Ono and Randy Jones (apparently the cowboy from The Village People). With a huge tour on the way The Moonlandingz also put out a call to all female artists.

“I’m just sick of turning up at venues and only seeing a bunch of twanging male brats bounding around a stage like Timmy bloody Mallet with a stratocaster, followed by another bunch of slightly moodier male brats…It’s almost like promoters only see women as worshipping ‘boys in bands’ and no one wants to actually hear or see women on the stage, which from my point of view is disgusting and vile and is why I wanted to re-address that dynamic as soon I was in the position of giving anyone a little break, or a bit of work.”

“So as well as the faboulas Goat Girl (playing all dates), we will be letting other girl groups or female fronted artists, local to the city we play, open the show for us!! Since I made my original post about it, It has been funny. We’ve been getting a bunch of male indie bands complaining how it’s “not fair” that we are only giving support slots to women in bands, but I guess it’s a swift & bitter lesson in what it has been like, being a woman in music over the past 50 years. It’s simple, If there ain’t a woman in your band mate, not only are you losing out, but you ain’t coming in!”! says Adrian Moonlandingz.

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