Brisbane's longest-running FM station, 4ZZZ is celebrating its 50th birthday in 2025.
To celebrate they'll be hosting ZED50 at Roma Street Parklands in October with a massive line-up including The Saints '73-'78, Regurgitator, Tropical F... Storm, Big Noter, Nice Biscuit and Full Flower Moon Band.
Full Flower Moon Band frontwoman, Kate 'Babyshakes' Dillon is beyond thrilled to be on the line-up to celebrate 4ZZZ. "[4ZZZ] is the Crown Jewel of our music scene," Kate exclaims.
"It's truly a taste maker, a curator, a friend, an advocate. It's a very important role in the Brisbane music scene and it has been for decades.
"So I'm really glad that they are pulling together such an iconic show because 4ZZZ is iconic. . . I don't know where we'd be without it, in terms of the Brisbane music industry and the scene.
"[The line-up is] insane to play on. Like it's intimidating to play on. It is not in any way a line-up that I thought was going to exist with Full Flower Moon Band's name on it and I'm deeply honoured.
"I knew that 4ZZZ was like, really big supporters of Full Flower Moon Band, but putting us on this bill is like, thank you! That's really special and I just want to do them proud.
"I want to live up to the spot we've been given on this epic line-up and serve our role of supporting these mammoth artists that all of Brisbane is going to turn up to see."
In 2024 Full Flower Moon Band released their album 'Megaflower', which reached number one on the ARIA charts. You may expect things to blossom overnight after an achievement like this, but as Kate explains, not much spontaneity can happen when your calendar "is planned out to 2027".
"It's like things changed for a week because I was just flooded with all of our original fan base just being so loving and generous and congratulating us. It was like a crazy week of everywhere the band went, it was kind of just on everyone's mind that we've achieved this huge feat.
"It was manageable, you know, like it wasn't, we topped the ARIA charts and then everything was crazy. It was just like oh my god, a week of celebrating and being like 'hell yeah we did it' and then it was like, 'okay, things are in motion, things are in motion'."
One of Kate's extraordinary moments of the past year was releasing the single 'Scene' with American punk band, Gustaf. The music video for the song saw both Kate and Gustaf vocalist, Lydia Gammill, recording their scenes on the opposite sides of the world.
Kate recorded her parts in Carlton, Melbourne, in the early hours of the morning at a phone booth, while Lydia did hers from New York. "I actually did look like a person on the street losing their mind because my character was kind of a bit edgy, a bit frustrated and a taxi driver pulled up and was like, 'are you good?'.
"I was like, 'I'm fine' and then he kind of hung around for ages and I was just like 'I'm actually just filming a music video', but that didn't really help, it was all a bit bizarre," Kate laughs.
ZED50 takes place at Roma Street Parklands (Brisbane) on 25 October.
ZED50: A Market Day Celebration Of 50 years Of 4ZZZ Radio Line-up
The Saints 73-78Regurgitator
Tropical F... Storm
Full Flower Moon Band
Big Noter
Butterfingers
Screamfeeder
Nice Biscuit
Party Dozen
Dancingwater
Flangipanis
Platonic Sex
Velociraptor
