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Live at the Matterhorn

live album by Fat Freddy's Drop

Manuscripts, fine bindings, an engraving plate and preserved performance ephemera
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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionMay 12, 2026
Entity authorityQ6656876 ↗
Source-derived summary

Live at the Matterhorn is the first live album by reggae band Fat Freddy's Drop.

The album was recorded live at the Matterhorn restaurant in Cuba Mall, Wellington, New Zealand. The cover of the album features a photo of The Bucket Fountain, which is located near the Matterhorn. Although the album only contains four songs it plays for 70 minutes.

Out of print since 2004, Live at the Matterhorn was re-released on 24 June 2005 after the debut of their second album, Based on a True Story.

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“Live at the Matterhorn” enters the record as live album by Fat Freddy's Drop. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Live, Matterhorn and live can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewBest approached as a cultural-object dossier: authorship and date matter, but circulation and reception often explain the wider significance. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—2004, 2005—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 2001. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Live, Matterhorn and live.
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Why this record matters

“Live at the Matterhorn” is worth following because a concise public description often conceals a longer documentary argument. Here, Live, Matterhorn and live provides the most credible route into that argument.

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Attribution, date and provenance are strongest when supported by the original work, a catalogue record and documented transmission. The source revision retrieved here is dated May 12, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q6656876. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 2004 and 2005.

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This entry incorporates text from “Live at the Matterhorn” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.