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  • Music: Roots, Reggae, Dub
  • Bands: Fat Freddys Drop, Ladi 6, Hollie Smith & the Illphonics, Sunshine Soundsystem
  • Tickets: Tickets $22.oo from good inner city retailers in Christchurch

An OUTDOOR party that you will remember till your dying day.

Sunday Afternoon Outdoors

RDU'S 30TH BIRTHDAY

Ladies & Gentlemen, Boys and Girls

WARNING: This may be the event of the decade.
The 30th Birthday celebrations of RDU 98.5FM,
featuring the BIGGEST NZ BAND of our time,
FAT FREDDYS DROP.

And it's Cheap as Chips.
Don't say we didn't warn you.

"DEFINITELY ONE OF THE BEST LIVE SHOWS I'VE SEEN ON ONE WORLD LIVE, IF NOT THE BEST." BBC1 WORLD LIVE

Fat Freddy's Drop have made history ,

  • They just won the BBC 1 WORLDWIDE ALBUM of the YEAR (yes, that's an international voting competition for the best album in the World for 2005!)
  • Their debut album Based on a True Story has gone quadruple platinum
  • They won 4 Tuis at the NZ Music Awards including People's Choice
  • They've had audiences in ecstasy throughout UK and Europe

You see, playing LIVE is where Fat Freddy's are at their finest.

Ample carparking in the vicinity.

Event also includes quality food stalls, soft drink stands, coffee stand, organic juices, family entertainment, balloons, toilet facilities, a fully grassed field and embankment. BYO low deckchairs, rugs and hampers and cash if spending.
Please no dogs, no BYO alcohol and no intoxicated people. We play rain or shine , no refunds. Bag and body searches may be carried out by professional security personnel and alcohol will be confiscated. ROAR.

BUSES : Event is on main bus routes

AND WHO ARE RDU?

THE BNET STATION OF THE CANTERBURY PLAINS

first broadcast: 8am, 23rd of February, 1976.

And for thirty years, RDU has been so far ahead of Christchurch radio , we're in a different time zone.

first to broadcast on FM - 1986
first to play Salmonella Dub -1994
first to have something called a "website" - 1996
first to play The White Stripes - 1998
first to play Shapeshifter - 1999
first to broadcast on the interweb - 2000
first to play Fat Freddy's Drop - 2000
first to play The Strokes - 2002
first to play Franz Ferdinand - 2004

RDU 98.5 FM. Hear It First.

Today, thirty years on, we seek out the fresh new music, ideas and events - and deliver them to a new generation of switched-on, intelligent, aware, and influential individuals.

Please come to our 30th birthday party , we know you'll love Fat Freddy's Drop. Of course, our listeners have been enjoying them for over 5 years...