Deja Voodoo
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Deja Voodoo began as the fictional house band for the New Zealand show Back Of The Y Masterpiece Television. In the show, the 15 seconds of mimed rock n' roll of the band and three posers produced at the start of each episode was enough to score them a nationwide orientation tour. But first they had to become a real band, so after a week of intensive song learning and writing the band were ready to roll.
Deja Voodoo weren't good but they weren’t as bad as some had hoped. They bemused audiences from Dunedin to Auckland, the only saving grace being the finale when the band member smashed ten burning acoustic guitars over Chris Stapp's head. The tour was featured in the now legendary TV special 'Back of the Y goes to Hollywood', with the band supplying the entire soundtrack.
On returning from the tour the band hit its first obstacle when drummer Phil 'Spanners Watson' Bruff quit the band in disgust and went off to the UK. He was replaced by Matt's girlfriend’s little brother James and they were off again. This time they were determined to become the best band in Auckland. After several practises they realised that this was an impossible dream. They settled for not being the worst and celebrated by building a massive Deja Voodoo sign and playing five sold out gigs around Auckland.
Things were looking up for Deja Voodoo, but tragedy struck again when Chris and Matt sold their TV show to MTV and decided to go off to the UK. At London, the people turned out to be booing at them and they were back with in six months. On arrival in New Zealand they signed a four figure record deal with Liberation Records and went into the studio to record their first and possibly last studio album, the ominously titled Brown Sabbath. It was to be a beer drinking concept album of epic proportions.
Brown Sabbath was released on 27 September, 2004. The release party was held at Shadows, the bar of the University of Auckland.
Band Members
- Matt Heath
- Chris Stapp
- James Goodfellow
- Phillip Bruff
- Piers Graham
- Gerald Stuart
Discography
- Havent I heard this shit somewhere before? (Live album, 2002)
- We Are Deja Voodoo (EP, 2003)
- Beers (Single, 2004)
- Brown Sabbath (Album, 2004)
- P (Single, 2005)
- ...But, seriously (Album, tba)