Moggs Motel, the brand new band from UFO frontman Phil Mogg, have launched their first unmarried and video. Apple Pie comes from the band’s self-titled debut album, which might be launched by means of SPV/Steamhammer on September 6, and reveals Mogg in in most cases playful temper.
“Apple Pie is the primary monitor off the Moggs Motel extravaganza,” says Mogg, it seems that glad to verify that the band’s identify does not come with an apostrophe. “It issues the hunt for a work of the pie, specifically ‘Apple’ as a result of I would really like a pleasing massive creamy slice this time round. Additionally I’d get to journey the horse whilst she’s swishing her tail – how candy is that!”
“I simply want that elusive pie,” he continues. “This monitor was once conjured up against the tip of lockdown. This was once our first get-together as a group, and an overly jolly affair it was once too – so benefit from the journey and get a chunk… now not a nibble please.”
The Moggs Motel lineup additionally comprises every other former UFO guy in guitarist and keyboardist Neil Carter plus Voodoo Six bassists/keyboardist Tony Newton, aided through drummer Joe Lazarus (Dual Atlantic, Vennart, Gun, Kavus Torabi, The Remaining Internationale) and guitarist Tommy Gentry (The Raven Age). The album was once recorded on the Essex studio of Iron Maiden chief Steve Harris.
In September 2022, UFO’s farewell excursion was once deserted after Mogg suffered a middle assault and had stents positioned into two arteries right through surgical procedure. Mogg had already introduced that the excursion can be his closing with the band.
“Being out at the street isn’t all the time greatly sumptuous and even supposing the enjoying is as nice because it ever was once, the stuff that surrounds it turns into very tiresome,” he mentioned in 2018. “I all the time informed myself that after I reached that level I’d step down, and that is the reason what I’m going to do. That is the suitable time for me to surrender.”
