The Moonlandingz team up with Iggy Pop on emotive new track, ‘It’s Where I’m From’

The Moonlandingz have today (April 22) returned with an emotive new song that features Iggy Pop called ‘It’s Where I’m From’ – check it out below.

The Sheffield band – featuring Adrian Flanagan and Fat White Family members Saul Adamczewski and Lias Kaci Saoudi – released their first full-length effort, ‘Interplanetary Class Classics’, in March 2017.

The band then returned earlier this year with a new single, ‘The Sign Of A Man’ – almost eight years on from their debut album. This was followed soon after by ‘Roustabout’ which also featured Nadine Shah.

All three singles will feature on their new album, ‘No Rocket Required’, which is released this Friday, April 25 via Transgressive Records. You can pre-order your copy here.

A statement revealed that the new track was written by Flanagan 15 years ago after the musician broke both his arms in a bike accident. “He was told by doctors he wouldn’t have full use of his arms again,” the statement continued, but the musician in “a defiant haze of Morphine” went “to his home studio” regardless and attempted “to write songs using one finger and a thumb on a mellotron, a midi keyboard and drum machine.”

Flanagan said of the track, “‘It’s Where I’m From’ was the very first song I wrote after my accident. I think I hit some kind of sweet spot between Johnny Cash doing ‘Hurt’ and something off Scott Walker’s ‘Scott 2’ album, the track grounds you!

“I got busy with other projects and the track ended up dumped in a box at the back of a cupboard for well over a decade. During the final days of The Moonlandingz album recording sessions I rediscovered the CD with pretty much an album full of these beautiful songs on them, so I brought the rough demo to The Moonlandingz session.

“I got my friend Oliver Harrap to put some live drums over it, Alex White put some beautiful additional sax and flute on it and I put a new guide vocal on it with the intention of getting someone else to sing it before I completely re-recorded my original demo parts with my co producer Dean Honer.”

You can listen to the track, which features Iggy Pop, here:

Speaking about Iggy Pop singing on the track, Flanagan added: “My absolute first choice to sing my song was Iggy Pop. No sweaty young upstart could sing this song and make you believe it.

“It had to be sung by someone who’d lived a thousand lives, who understood about mortality, loss – whose very throat exudes wisdom. As if by some kind of psychic magic Iggy said yes! Proof that something flung at the back of the cupboard all those years ago, made during great personal struggle and pain, can still have an extraordinary life in the future and enter the cannon of modern day pop ballads/standards of tomorrow!”

The accompanying music video sees the band once again collaborate with Jeanie Crystal. Speaking about this, she adds: “This is the finale of a three piece sequence (for The Moonlandingz) about male vulnerability, sexuality, insecurities and ego and the absurd complexities of trying to understand the label of man.”

New album ‘No Rocket Required’ features Iggy Pop, Shah, Jessica Winter and Trainspotting actor Ewen Bremner.

The Moonlandingz returned to the stage for a gig at The Lexington in north London in February. Meanwhile last September, the group performed a set at The Garage in the capital as part of Transgressive Records’ 20th anniversary celebrations. It marked their first show in almost seven years.

The band have also been announced for next year’s Rockaway Beach 2026 alongside Public Image Ltd. and Dry Cleaning. The winter festival will return to Butlin’s in Bognor Regis, West Sussex from January 2 to 4, 2026. Tickets, including three-day festival passes and accommodation packages, are available here.

In other news, Fat White Family supported Primal Scream in London this April. Their fourth and latest album, ‘Forgiveness Is Yours’, was released last spring.

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