Return of SA rock legends

SQUEAL: CAPTURES MOOD OF THE '90S

- Hein Kaiser

Few bands rocked the SA music scene like Squeal did in the nineties. The band's live performances were legendary and so too their music. Albums like Long Pig were groundbreaking in many ways and captured the mood of a decade.

Later, Man and Woman nailed the band to the history books forever with the band's balance of discography as legendary. Front man David Birch's raw, edgy vocals unmistakable.

What has happened in your and Squeal's career?

We put out Long Pig in 1995 and between then and 1999 released two more albums.

After that I started working more in production of bands and recorded many of the emerging bands of the 2000s such as the Parlotones, Finkelstein's, Perez, Farryl Purkiss and so on.

In 2008 I started doing sound and music for film which I still do. The band stayed pretty much mothballed until 2010 when we decided to start performing again and it's been a lovely experience bringing that 90s rock to a whole new audience.

The rock vitality of the 90s, especially on the SA scene at the time...