Fat Freddy's Drop

PHAT HOPE FOR NELSON 2004

Fat Freddy's Drop, the band that gives you 'Hope for a generation', is playing live at the Phat Club in Nelson this September.

The Wellington based seven piece band of midnight marauders with the deepest dopest sounds in the land, have been described as the must see live act in NZ, and the one NZ act most likely to receive global recognition for the music they produce.

It will be a rare live appearance by the band that is currently spending time in a beach side studio recording a live studio album that's being anticipated as one of the biggest albums to drop this year.

The CD and double vinyl album due for release this summer on the independent record label, The Drop, follows a series of savvy 12" vinyl releases, the soulful Hope, down beat Midnight Marauders and This Room, and the Gold selling CD, Live at The Matterhorn.

FFD stars Joe Dukie aka Dallas, vocalist and songwriter, Fitchie aka DJ MU, award winning producer and MPC champion, Jetlag Johnson on gat, Dobie Blaze on keys, and a booty shaking horn section, Fulla Flash aka Warren Maxwell from TrinityRoots, on saxapohone, Hopepa on trombone and Clubba Laing, Wellington trumpet maestro.

Every Fat Freddy's Drop song is an extraordinary epic, a skanking hypnotic groove of urban Pacific roots, dub and electronic dance vibrations that defies genres, by a band that staunchly refuses to play the industry game.

Earlier this year the crew spent six weeks overseas on the second leg of their global domination mission. The Hope For A Generation Summer Tour 2004 included gigs in Cannes, Berlin, Cork, London, France, Scotland and Spain, finishing up with a bonus head nodder in Detroit on the return journey home.

While in London, Freddy's nailed a recording of Willow Tree, This Room and Midnight Marauders at the BBC's Maida Vale studios, an exclusive set for Gilles Peterson's influential WorldWide show on Radio 1. Both Peterson and Berlin's Jazzanova DJ's have been dropping Freddy's latest 10" vinyl on their decks, a limited edition remix of Hope by NYC producers 3 Generations Walking aka MKL & Soy Sos (Spiritual Life).

Fitchie says Freddy's loved re-acquainting themselves with their European home base, East Berlin. A Monday night gig at Café Moskau, an underground club renowned for it's history of after hours 'entertainment' of Communist party members, featured the wildest Freddy's sing along crowd ever.

The Berlin faithful were chanting "Fat Freddy's Drop, Fat Freddy's Drop, Fat Freddy's Drop" at the end of the show, but Fitchie says that after two and half hours on stage, including two encores, the band had to shut the sound system down. He says, "It was like the horn section's lungs were bleeding, there was nothing left".

FAT FREDDY'S DROP
LIVE @ THE PHAT CLUB
137 BRIDGE ST, NELSON
SATURDAY 18 SEPTEMBER 2004
Tickets $25, Doors Open 10pm
Website: www.fatfreddysdrop.com