No Rocket Required

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'. The 2025 album 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.