Life in a ‘90s Grunge Band.
Life in a ‘90s Grunge Band.
Comparing the music world of 1996 to 2026.
It’s 9pm. Friday night. December 20th, 1996. Cape Town, South Africa. I walk out on stage. The air is thick with smoke from the fog machine and cigarettes, and probably something else too. A bright spotlight is in my face. The light’s hot. The weather’s hot. That middle-of-an-African-summer kinda hot. All I can see beyond the spotlight is a sea of people. The venue is sold out. In fact, it’s probably over capacity.
We’re opening for South Africa’s biggest rock band, Springbok Nude Girls, who’d just signed a major label…
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