. "Iain Gordon"@en . "Warren Maxwell Baxter Perry"@en . "Toby Laing"@en . . . "Chris Faiumu"@en . . . "Scott Towers"@en . . . "\"Wandering Eye\""@en . "Wellington, New Zealand"@en . "Fat Freddys Drop - Wandering Eye Sample.ogg"@en . "Fat Freddy\u2019s Drop during a European tour in 2008. Left to right: Tehimana Kerr, Joe Lindsey, Chris Faiumu, Iain Gordon, Dallas Tamaira, Toby Laing, and Scott Towers."@en . . "Fat Freddy\u2019s Drop are a New Zealand seven-piece band from Wellington, whose musical style has been characterised as any combination of dub, reggae, soul, jazz, rhythm and blues, and techno. Originally a jam band formed in the late 1990s by musicians from other bands in Wellington, Fat Freddy\u2019s Drop gradually became its members' sole focus. Band members continued playing with their other respective groups\u2014The Black Seeds, TrinityRoots, Bongmaster, and others\u2014for much of their 13-year career. Fat Freddy\u2019s Drop are known for their improvised live performances; songs on their studio albums are versions refined over years of playing them live in New Zealand, and on tour abroad."@en . "Tehimana Kerr"@en . "Fat Freddy\u2019s Drop"@en . "The first single of Based on a True Story demonstrates the band's reggae and soul influences."@en . "The Drop"@en . . . . . "Fat Freddy\u2019s Drop are a New Zealand seven-piece band from Wellington, whose musical style has been characterised as any combination of dub, reggae, soul, jazz, rhythm and blues, and techno. Originally a jam band formed in the late 1990s by musicians from other bands in Wellington, Fat Freddy\u2019s Drop gradually became its members' sole focus. Band members continued playing with their other respective groups\u2014The Black Seeds, TrinityRoots, Bongmaster, and others\u2014for much of their 13-year career. Fat Freddy\u2019s Drop are known for their improvised live performances; songs on their studio albums are versions refined over years of playing them live in New Zealand, and on tour abroad. The group gained international recognition in 2003 after their single \"Midnight Marauders\" was re-distributed by record labels and DJs in Germany. The group has toured Europe nearly every year since then. The first studio album by Fat Freddy\u2019s Drop, Based on a True Story, was the first independently-distributed album to reach first place in New Zealand record sales directly after release in 2005, and is the highest-selling album by a national artist in the country's history. Based on a True Story won Best Album at the New Zealand Music Awards the same year, and remained on the top 40 New Zealand sales chart for over two years, establishing them as one of the most successful contemporary bands in the island nation."@en . . . . . . "1999"^^ . "group_or_band"@en . "Seven men in suits standing near the ocean posing for a photo."@en . "Fat Freddy\u2019s Drop"@en . . "Joe Lindsay"@en . . . .