Fat Freddy's Drop

End of February, Calvin Harris.

playing Jungle, Major Lazer, Kings of Leon, Fat Freddy's Drop, the list goes on and on and on and on.

Our music reviewer Chris Schultz is here with us this morning and I think he's flipping out a little bit over this kind of line-up, don't you reckon?

Yeah, this is the news we have been waiting weeks, months for.

What's your next choice?

Fat Freddy's Drop, Wandering Eye.

Yeah.

I got the wandering eye.

Again, memory and association.

I, I moved to Wellington in the early 2000s at a time when this iconic, uh, Wellington and New Zealand band, Fat Freddy's Drop, were, you know, just, uh, I think capturing New Zealanders' hearts, but also, you know, significant globally.

I got the wandering eye.

Oh, you know I got it.

Right.

Fat Freddy's first album, based on a true story, went – first studio album went, I think, five or six times platinum off its physical sales.

So you go – and back in those days, I think there was more margin, plus Fat Freddy's were independent.

Yeah, right.

So they would have had more – A lot of those overheads.

Portobello shrooms, little butter with shallots and some garlic.

I'm not Fat Freddy's drop.

I'm not Tiki.

Shout out my cousin.

We'll come up with a couple of suggestions for songs, and then you get to choose which one we start the show with.

Give me, Gerry, this morning, Slings & Arrows, uh, Fat Freddy's Drop.

[upbeat music] Ready to go.

That's a good way to ease into the day.

Well, this, this happened yesterday morning, and I think the same thing's happened again this morning, so we'll take it to the text machine here on 3483.

And, uh, this text here from Richard: I'll take Slings & Arrows any day of the week.

So let's kick it off with Slings & Arrows, Fat Freddy's Drop-

Do you find that some-

I would say, at least around Toronto, it was more so, like you said, with New York, it was always a bit more frenetic, maybe ahead of the beat slightly.

Whereas here, it's a lot more groovy music, sort of like stuff like Fat Freddy's Drop, Catch a Fire, where it's real groovy, kind of like reggae, almost inspired.

Yeah, it's definitely different.

It's

New chapters of Dubb.

So this is going to be the regular reggae night, once a month reggae night that Logg puts on at Ponsonby Social Club, except Logg is not going to be there because Logg is going to Europe to play with Fat Freddy's Drop.

So it's going to be held down by my young friend Chapters and me.

Dubhead and Chapters.

Your first headline, guys.

660 Stan Walker and Fat Freddy's Drop will headline the two-day Kingston Calling Festival at Mount Maunganui's Bay Oval next February.

Can't believe

it.