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