Andrea is a great fan of Dallas Tamaira,better knownas Joe Dukie,the vocalist for the New Zealand group Fat Freddy's Drop.
So I dared to join her for the outdoor concert Fat Freddy's Drop gave in Linz yesterday, I think it was the first concert of such kind of music in more than 7 yeRs,,, only after 1.5h I had to sit down because I got dizzy. A young security guy offered me a chair but, wanted to leave after 1,5h,,, can't take the loudness no more although, compared to the Troggs or Kionks 1965 in Vienna it was "silent" music :D

#FFD #FatFreddysDrop #reggae #dub #music #Andrea #ya

YA

February 3, 2023 11:59am

FFD is Andrea's fave band... she listens'em only in teh car...

Fat Freddy's Drop Red Bull Studio Live Session (2010)

Get down, Red Bull Studio Live Session 2010 featuring Rain, Blackbird, Afrique aka Never Moving, Del Fuego, Boondigga, and Shiverman. Loose live vibe throwback. Special guests Daniel Yeabsley, Bella Kalola and Kemara Fuimaono. Thanks Grace and Red Bull NZ for the love. Chur.

Listen to this amazing version of Del Fuego at 24:37

#FFD #FatFreddysDrop #kiwi #nz #sound #music

YA

June 9, 2022 6:42pm

Fat Freddy's Drop Live at Kotahi Music Festival

Rewind selector for Fat Freddy's Drop at Kotahi Music Festival 2022, tiny school desk concert in the classroom featuring Blackbird, Raleigh Twenty, Fish in the Sea, Trickle Down, Rusty (new tune in the making) and Shady X Wandering Eye mash up. Woven through the jams, Kahurangi School tamariki and community from Strathmore Park, Poneke share kapa haka, Tipare, Ta Moko and Hāngi performance and skills. Kotahi Festival is run by community for community every Waitangi Day, representing local pride, belonging, resilience and manaakitanga. Thanks for having us! Chur. #unity #DoItForTheLoveOfMusic
00.59 Blackbird, 12.24 Raleigh Twenty, 20.30 Fish in the Sea, 33.54 Trickle Down, 40.34 Rusty,
50.40 Shady X Wandering Eye.

#FatFreddysDrop #NZ #music

YA

November 20, 2021 8:04am

Fat Freddy's Drop - Wairunga

COFFEE BLACK (WAIRUNGA) 08:10

BONES (WAIRUNGA) 08:22

SHADY (WAIRUNGA) 07:09

WAIRUNGA (WAIRUNGA) 05:29

BUSH TELEGRAPH (WAIRUNGA) 06:55

LEAVE YOUR WINDOW OPEN (WAIRUNGA) 11:29

DIG DEEP (WAIRUNGA) 10:30

'WAIRUNGA' bush-alchemy album, digging deep to debut five songs and revisit two classics captured in an outdoor performance sans audience with wild weather elements playing an important creative role.

In Freddys inimitable fashion the new tunes run a gamut of genre busting styles. 'Coffee Black' is layered with cosmic hot buttered soul and cinematic wigged out psyche-blues while 'Shady' continues Freddy's Afro-Acid adventures with Fitchie’s beat-making tapping into a South African township brand of techno Freddys experienced on tour.

'Bush Telegraph' is a reggae classic featuring MC Slave aka Mark Williams on the mic with freshly minted yum char spiced rhymes of hope. The other new tracks, 'Leave Your Window Open' and 'Dig Deep', are loose rhythmic experiments that the band have been working on for a long time. Versions were developed, rehearsed, but then set aside – dismissed, demonised - only to be revived with new energy in some future moment of creative cohesion. The results are loose-limbed; broken and bruised beats smashing into subterranean bass and twisted up melodies. Freddys love playing this stuff.