Friday 19th December
THE MOONLANDINGZ
£20 | £22 [+10% booking fee]
Doors open 8pm
18+ show
The Moonlandingz have returned seven years after their debut, when they emerged as a semi-fictional band offering sticky pop solace following Brexit and Trump. Their 2017 album Interplanetary Class Classics, made with Yoko Ono and Phil Oakey, was unreality equal to unhinged times.
No Rocket Required delivers brassy squawks and sinister vocals from Nadine Shah, Iggy Pop, Jessica Winter and Ewen Bremner. Front man Johnny Rocket aka Lias Saoudi channels everything from R Whites’ lemonade drinker to Kris Kristofferson of the Pennines, but mostly he’s the gravelly crooner we know from Fat White Family.
On It’s Where I’m From, Iggy Pop offers tender solidarity – ‘won’t someone put their arms around me, I cannot take the pain of those who’ve gone’ – with guileless vulnerability.
The album is cosmic on a human scale, Carl Sagan admiring hectic carpets in a vommy town-centre disco. As we watch destruction while leaders shrug their shoulders, we need to organise, fight, collaborate and dance. That’s what The Moonlandingz do.
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