Fat Freddy's Drop Live At Roundhouse World Tour is touching down in the US
16.06.10
[press release]
Fat Freddy's Drop Live At Roundhouse World Tour is touching down in the US thanks to Red Bull NZ.
The tour to the West Coast and Hawaii was rescued by Red Bull NZ after hearing that Freddy's were cancelling the USA leg of their inter-continental tour. Grace Boyle from Red Bull NZ says, "Freddys and Red Bull have had a long relationship over the band's career and we're very proud to support Live At Roundhouse. International success always brings the music home to NZ bigger and better."
Fat Freddy's Drop debuted in America last year with gigs in Los Angeles, San Diego and San Francisco, with the help of the NZ Music Commission. They are extremely pleased to be returning to the West Coast and to make their debut in Hawaii with three headline shows. The band's manager, Nicole Duckworth says that funding and support is very important for the band at the moment as it tries to capitalise itself into America without the help of a record label. "It's all fun and games being your own record label until it's a big place like America and it's only you paying the bills," she says.
After the b-Net broadcast Red Bull Studio Session in Auckland last week, the next live-to-air for Fat Freddy's Drop is in Los Angeles for KCRW's "Morning Becomes Eclectic", a sensational live-to-air performance direct to 11 million listeners in California at 11am on Tuesday 29th June. This prestigious slot is heavily contested and is a result of Freddy's "hand-delivering" their music to the iconic radio station. MC Slave visited Santa Monica College a year ago and put the fresh new Dr Boondigga album into all the right hands, forging a strong relationship between KCRW Djs and the band. One of the station's bigger stars, Garth Trinidad, last year hailed Fat Freddy's Drop as 'the bugged out love child of Isaac Hayes and Lee Scratch Perry.' The Freddy's gig at the Henry Fonda Theater on Hollywood Boulevard is being presented by KCRW and features station Djs Jeremy Sole and Aaron Bird in support.
Freddys are looking forward to dropping off the new live album, Live At Roundhouse, to Amoeba Music in San Francisco where the band packed out an in-store performance in November 2009. Manager Mike Battaglia said it was one of the biggest in-store sessions in the ten years he'd been there and that Freddy's album Dr Boondigga & The Big BW went on to be their biggest selling album for that month.
Following America, the Freddys continue their Live At Roundhouse World Tour into Europe to play to over 100,000 punters in three weeks.
Tour Dates:
19 June
Sierra Nevada World Music Festival, Boonville
20 June
Avila Beach Music Festival, California
22 June
Independent, San Francisco
24 June
The Music Box @ Henry Fonda Theater, Los Angeles
25 June
Independent, San Francisco
26 June
Independent, San Francisco
29 June
KCRW Morning Becomes Eclectic, Los Angeles
1 July
Pipeline, Honolulu
2 July
The Castle Theater, Maui
3 July
Kona Bowl, Kona
30 July
Tanks Art Centre, Cairns
31 July
Splendour In The Grass, Woodford
01 August
Coolangatta Hotel, Gold Coast
19 August
Pukkelpop, Belgium
20 August
Lowlands Festival, Holland
22 August
Vega, Copenhagen
23 August
Grosse Freiheit, Hamburg
24 August
LiveMusicHall, Cologne
27 August
Reggae Summer, Chiemsee
29 August
Rock En Seine, Paris
2 Sept
Coliseum, Lisbon
5 Sept
Electric Picnic, Ireland
7 Sept
ABC, Glasgow
10 Sept
Troxy, London
11 Sept
Academy, Bristol
12 Sept
Bestival, Isle of Wight
