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Fat Freddy's Drop

Fat Freddy's Drop worked up a reputation for epic live gigs (as captured on 2001 album Live at The Matterhorn) before dropping Based On A True Story. The first local indie album to top the New Zealand charts, it was voted 2005's favourite worldwide album by listeners on DJ Gilles Peterson's BBC Radio 1 show. Soul-pop tracks like 'Wandering Eye' and sales of 120,000 plus saw them anointed flagbearers of the 'Wellington Sound'. The band operates as a collective, sharing songwriting credits and royalties equally between all members. The first four (of seven) studio albums by the band topped the Kiwi charts.