The Moonlandingz

The sort of party electronics that are haunted by one too many trips into the k-hole of the soul - The Moonlandingz supergroup gathers a few more famous friends as they take us on a weird night out, stumbling through rowdy pubs into hedonistic clubs and the belligerent headspace of a music furist before emerging blinking into the dismal grey reality, raring to dive back in all over again.

Their long-awaited second 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. 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.

What 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. And that is what The Moonlandingz do.