Moggs Motel, the brand new band from UFO frontman Phil Mogg, have launched their first single and video. Apple Pie comes from the band’s self-titled debut album, which can be launched through SPV/Steamhammer on September 6, and finds Mogg in sometimes playful temper.
“Apple Pie is the primary observe off the Moggs Motel extravaganza,” says Mogg, apparently glad to verify that the band’s title does not embrace an apostrophe. “It issues the search for a bit of the pie, specifically ‘Apple’ as a result of I would love a pleasant massive creamy slice this time round. Additionally I’d get to experience the horse whereas she’s swishing her tail – how candy is that!”
“I simply want that elusive pie,” he continues. “This observe was conjured up in the direction of the top of lockdown. This was our first get-together as a crew, and a really jolly affair it was too – so benefit from the experience and get a chunk… not a nibble please.”
The Moggs Motel lineup additionally consists of one other former UFO man in guitarist and keyboardist Neil Carter plus Voodoo Six bassists/keyboardist Tony Newton, aided by drummer Joe Lazarus (Twin Atlantic, Vennart, Gun, Kavus Torabi, The Final Internationale) and guitarist Tommy Gentry (The Raven Age). The album was recorded on the Essex studio of Iron Maiden chief Steve Harris.
In September 2022, UFO’s farewell tour was deserted after Mogg suffered a coronary heart assault and had stents positioned into two arteries throughout surgical procedure. Mogg had already introduced that the tour could be his final with the band.
“Being out on the street isn’t at all times tremendously luxurious and though the enjoying is as nice because it ever was, the stuff that surrounds it turns into very tiresome,” he said in 2018. “I at all times informed myself that after I reached that stage I’d step down, and that is what I’m going to do. That is the correct time for me to stop.”