fat freddy's drop Big ups to Wel­ling­ton band Fat Freddy’s Drop, who cleaned up at last night’s NZ Music Awards. The Lyall Bay-based band picked up Album of the Year (‘Based on a True Story’), Best Group, Best Roots Album, and the People’s Choice Award.

Fel­low Wel­ling­to­ni­ans Shi­had also got the nod for best Rock album, leav­ing a bunch of mostly Auck­landers to fight it out for the vari­ous hip-hop, elec­tron­ic, solo artist and singles awards.

Chur, as they say…

UPDATE: Reports on the even­ing from Hard News, Crack­er, Smacked Face, Shad­ow Foot­prints & Dub Dot Dash.