Déjà Vega headlined Stockport’s Mercury Climbing Festival in the beautiful setting of St Mary’s Church on Tuesday night with a set of crowd favourites and a brand new song, supported by Yetii.
Yetii are a duo that describe themselves as psych fuzz jams and there’s very much a jamming element to their sound. We’ve heard a million guitar / drums duos that seem on a relentless mission to create as much noise as possible but Yetii’s approach is far more rounded and varied. One minute they’re heavy metal, the next they’re in full-on late night smoky bar open mic jam mode. The growing crowd appreciate their musicianship and the very intuitive connection they have as they take us on their journey with us.
The room fills up considerably with stragglers from the bars surrounding the church as Déjà Vega take to the stage and let loose with a furious Mr Powder at a volume that threatens to pulverise the old stone walls of the church. Ever intense the sacred ground and cavernous high roof seems an unlikely perfect space for them to blast through fifty minutes that could pass as their greatest hits in an alternate chart world.
Eyes Of Steel and Spitting Glass are spat out by Jack like a preacher delivering a demonic sermon, Chasing could form a psychedelic metal disco genre under its own propulsive steam. Friends In High Places feels as fresh as the day they first played it whilst Harmonica gives us some respite if such a thing is possible given the power that Jack, Mike and Tom inject into every single note they play.
The new song You Only Like Me In Stars is both familar and different. A tight one-drum intro from Tom forms the core of the first half of the song, ratcheting up the intensity and the crowd jumping around barely notice they don’t know this one such is the way they’re immersed in the gig.
Who We Are, a three minute blast of pure power fuelled by cowbell, leads us into the final song The Test. Clocking in at close to twenty minutes if you include the impromptu slow jam at the start that allows everyone pause for breath, it’s a monolithic onslaught on the senses, a journey through sections that vary wildly but which feel connected through the fluidity that the trio have perfected over years as a band and as mates. The audience follow them mesmerised until it comes to a crashing stop.
As they prepare for album three Mercury Climbing gave Déjà Vega the opportunity to remind us what a force of nature they are, particularly in their natural habitat of the live space where you need to see them to fully understand why they’re so loved amongst a growing band of followers.
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