{"title":"The Moonlandingz","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eThe Moonlandingz\u003c\/strong\u003e are a UK group with a taste for the theatrical and the unruly. Their debut album, \u003cem\u003eInterplanetary Class Classics\u003c\/em\u003e, introduced a project that treats rock, pop and satire as part of the same conversation, while \u003cem\u003eNo Rocket Required\u003c\/em\u003e showed there was more to them than a one-off conceit.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThat tension between character and song is what gives \u003cstrong\u003eThe Moonlandingz\u003c\/strong\u003e their shape. Even at their most exaggerated, there is a real feel for melody and mischief underneath it, which helps explain why the records land as more than novelty. They make pop music that keeps one eye on performance and the other on the messier business of being human.\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"interplanetary-class-classics","title":"Interplanetary Class Classics","description":"\u003cp\u003eThey began as a fictional band from a fictional town featured on the Eccentronic Research Council’s 2015 concept album \u003ci\u003eJohnny Rocket, Narcissist And Music Machine… I’m Your Biggest Fan\u003c\/i\u003e. Now The Moonlandingz have lurched, sticky and bleeding, into the real world and are releasing the first great album of 2017.\u003ci\u003e Interplanetary Class Classics\u003c\/i\u003e, released on Transgressive Records, is a feast of swirling juddering synths, wailing guitars, motorik stomp and extraordinary songwriting. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe Moonlandingz have proven themselves to be one of the best live bands in the UK (“Magnificent, cosmic and batshit!” said The Quietus. “Feral antics and louche anarchy!” said The Guardian) and now they’ve produced an album of proper weird catchy glorious filthy pop. The Moonlandingz is Eccentronic Research Council’s Adrian Flanagan and Dean Honer in cahoots with Fat White Family’s Lias Saoudi (aka frontman Johnny Rocket) and Saul Adamczewski. They recorded the album with Sean Lennon at his studio in upstate New York. Also on the record: Randy Jones the Cowboy from The Village People, Rebecca Taylor from Slow Club, drummer Ross Orton, bassist Mairead O’Connor, Phil Oakey and Yoko fucking Ono, who sings and yowls on epic closer 'This Cities Undone'.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Transgressive","offers":[{"title":"Green LP","offer_id":50964426129739,"sku":"2236064","price":27.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"CD | x2","offer_id":50509562249547,"sku":"1025195","price":6.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"CD","offer_id":50509560774987,"sku":"1003192","price":6.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0867\/1120\/6219\/files\/16419731-2b70-4d4d-981d-89aa1c7c4ee2_thumbnail_4096.jpg?v=1727866258"},{"product_id":"no-rocket-required","title":"No Rocket Required","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe Moonlandingz are back with their second album\u003cem\u003e No Rocket Required\u003c\/em\u003e. The Moonlandingz have finally returned – not when we wanted them but now that we need them – galloping in on their four horses, bareback and howling, with their eagerly awaited forthcoming album No Rocket Required.  \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eNo Rocket Required\u003c\/em\u003e delivers brassy squawks, motorik convulsions and sinister soothing vocals from a righteous line-up of guest singers and ranters: Nadine Shah, Iggy Pop, Jessica Winter and Ewen Bremner. Plus, of course, there’s The Moonlandingz’ own front man, Johnny Rocket aka Lias Saoudi, who has the wobbly-horny voice of R Whites’ secret lemonade drinker on Give Me More and then becomes basically Kris Kristofferson of the Pennines in the middle of epic Krack Drought Suite, imparting gnomic sawdust saloon wisdom from a barstool in Huddersfield. Mostly though he’s the man we know from Fat White Family with gravelly crooning (to especially great effect in Roustabout, his duet with Nadine Shah) and camp Working Men’s Club lead singer, Syd Minsky-Sargeant.    \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWhat to do, as we potter and fret, as we watch bodies, homes and lives destroyed every day while our elected leaders, so forensic and so sensible, use their weasel words, shrug their coward shoulders and saunter off to raise our bus fares. Dancing of course and togetherness, looking out for each other, and that’s not enough. What kind of fight are we bringing? We will always need to organise, to fight, to collaborate, to connect and to dance dance dance. 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Pushing 40, still wearing a soiled nappy on stage - albeit at Paris Fashion Week - the second book from bestselling author Lias Saoudi represents a reckoning with ageing (dis)gracefully, the hazards and vulnerabilities of life on the road with various reprobates and, most importantly, the rite of passage that is becoming a father. How to reconcile rock 'n' roll performance art with the arrival of your first born? What does it mean to be a man growing up as one of three brothers of Algerian descent in a 21st century Britain that is increasingly fractured and riven with identity politics and then become father to a beautiful daughter after a life lived with reckless hedonism?\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWith unsparing humour and self-lacerating honesty, Tears of the Patriarch takes a machete to the culture wars and rearranges the pieces with the stylish swagger of a man on the edge of either implosion or revelation as his eternal adolescence enters its final furlong. From an occult ritual on a remote Irish beach with the darkest of consequences to a spell in the Algerian clink when a satirical Fat Whites promo video goes wrong, this is a book that only Lias Saoudi could write: profane, profound, daring and unforgiving - mostly of himself, but most certainly - also - of the hollow world we have created where speaking truth to power has become a pathetic Instagram meme and the word masculinity is rarely spoken of without the prefix 'toxic'?\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"White Rabbit","offers":[{"title":"Hardback - Signed - Fanzine","offer_id":58618669465931,"sku":"R0090-9330","price":20.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0867\/1120\/6219\/files\/TearsofthePatriarch-jacketimage.jpg?v=1790585467"}],"url":"https:\/\/shop.roughtrade.com\/de\/collections\/the-moonlandingz.oembed","provider":"Rough Trade","version":"1.0","type":"link"}