Sure, you can’t go past bandleaders Chris Stapp and Matt Heath’s impeccable poo-humour celebrity in Back of The Y and its movie spin-offs. But their long-running band DEJA VOODOO is back in town and new album The Shape Of Grunge To Come can be considered as a re-ignition of the hard rock/punk attitude and everyman accessibility that their peers from Seattle back in the day sweated out.
OK, the lyrics are still “a bit shit”, but they are an honest expression of the everyday life that Deja Voodoo and their wide Kiwi audience experience. And before some prick decides “joke band”, just remember that if history had allowed only bands who WEREN’T considered a joke by the cognoscenti to be heard, we’d only have cocktail jazz.