Sandwiches Announce Summerset 09
Sandwiches is pleased to announce a stellar line up led by big hitter Fat Freddy’s Drop for Sandwiches Summerset 09
Day-Nighter at Wellington’s iconic Basin Reserve.
For the third year running the hallowed cricket ground will resonate to a solid 12-hour innings where music is the new
sport - mixing bona fide legends, established acts and newcomers from here and abroad - across two stages on Saturday
18th April.
Joining Fat Freddy’s Drop (NZ) on the SummerSet team are famed house DJ Nick Warren (UK), hip hop innovators and cricket
aficionados The Nextmen (UK) with special guest MC P Digsss (NZ), drum and bass’s latest luminaries DJ Lynx and MC Kemo
(UK), soul diva Hollie Smith with full band (NZ), electro house party DJ & remix king Bass Kleph (Aus), four piece popsters Charlie Ash (NZ) and audio genies Pitch Black (NZ).
Picking the headline act for the 2009 event Sandwiches selectors said they made a beeline for Freddy’s who’re on the
cusp of releasing a new album Big BW - winning the band over with the offer of the Capital’s premiere outdoor music
festival to shake that ‘shiverman loose’.
Bryce Mason of SummerSet said, ““Here and across the world the question on people’s lips is ’Fat Freddy’s Drop – is the
album out yet?’ We’re extremely pleased to have Freddy’s performing in what is such an important and exciting time for
them. It’s the perfect setting at the iconic Basin Reserve for the boys to bring their magic sound and success home and
answer that question.” Rounding off the musical entertainment, a host of local DJ’s and emerging bands such as soulful
blues band Whiskey & Sly will join the SummerSet team looking to hit the festival for six over the white cricket fence.
SummerSet is once again bringing a super top to the Basin but in 2009 it’ll be the massive ‘Heineken Super Top’ – the
largest structure of its kind in New Zealand - ensuring the music plays rain or shine. It’s a truly global event in a
positively Wellington setting - follow Kent Terrace Road to the Basin Reserve for Sandwiches SummerSet 09.
"Without a shadow of a doubt one of the best festivals in the Southern Hemisphere." Norman Jay, DJ at Sandwiches
SummerSet 2008 “The Basin Reserve was the perfect venue for such an event, offering space and greenery for the masses to
wander around in. There was the two pronged attack of the main stage at the Basins north end, and the swish looking
Super-top to the south for people to get their musical hit from.” Darren, Texture Live Blog 2008
ENDS