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- Rock It Real Radio Show 3rd April 2025We have some really interesting South African
music on tonight's Rock It Real hosted by DJ Squeek!!! Some other features on the show include: This Day In Music History, The SA Gig Guide, The Afrikaans Triple Play, Under The Covers, Rewind The SA Classics and Hard And Heavy!!!!
Rock It Real broadcasts LIVE from Cape Town, South Africa and goes out at EVERY THURSDAY from 9pm till 12am SAST!!!!!
Some of the interesting music from Peachy Keen, tAIT, Parable Fifteen, Cherry Vynil, SAARKIE, Henry Ate, Stephan Visagie, Koos Kombuis, Albert De Wet, The BLACK CAT BONES, Kurt Stone Music, Hi Anxious , Alive at Midnight and more!!!!!
Stay on the Rock It Real Facebook page or group during the show where we post all the details of our featured bands so you can like and follow them!3 hr 2 min - The Night Zone Radio Show 31st March 2025Crazy Kool The Night Zone recording from last night!!
The Haunted and Lordi have just released new albums so I played their brand new singles!
Also played the new single from Playhouse!
Kicked off the show with some AC/DC - Happy 70th Birthday Angus Young!!!!!
Some other bands we played were: ZZ Top, Madness, The Cure, Chickenfoot, Franz ferdinand, Foo Fighters, RATT, LIVE, Danko Jones, Korpiklaani and Mastodon!
Don't forget to listen into Rock It Real on Thursday nights from 9pm SAST for 3 hours of amazing South African Music... Here's the "LISTEN NOW" Link: Show kicks off at 9pm SAST!
https://zeno.fm/radio/the-night-zone-and-rock-it-real-cbv3/
You can also like our page and join The Night Zone group!!!!3 hr 5 min - Rock It Real Radio Show 27th March 2025Here's last night's WIKKID Rock It Real show!... DJ Squeek played the brand new tracks from Sheron and A Million Ways to Die!
This week on Rewind The SA Classics we featured some really old school South African punk... National Wake, Tribe After Tribe and Wild Youth!!!!!!
DJ Squeek dropped some ROCKING tunes from The Shabs, Yung Beathoven, Zebra & Giraffe, Blynd Tyger, Taxi Violence, NORRA, Bouwer Bosch, Three Chord Theory, WONDERboom, The Anti Retro Vinyls. Heartmachine, Halvar and lots more real South African music!!!!!
Also Please post your SA music requests on our Rock It Real Facebook page and/or group... (You can also like our page and join our group!)
South African bands and artists: Drop us a line if you would like your music featured on Rock It Real3 hr 20 min - The Night Zone Radio Show (Under The Covers Special Part 2) 24th March 2025Here's the recording from the EPIC The Night Zone radio show "THE COVER EDITION PART 2"!
OK..... So.... Mind completely blown with some of these cover songs... SERIOUSLY.... There are songs I played that we ALL thought were originals.... Prepare to be ASTOUNDED!!!!!
Music from Depeche Mode, Blondie, Led Zeppelin, The Rolling Stones, Marilyn Manson, Korn, Cyndi Lauper, The Beatles, Animotion, Janis Joplin, The Doors, Hanoi Rocks, Ramones, Ghapi, Sheron, Polar Dust and quite a few more surprises!
Don't forget to listen into Rock It Real on Thursday nights from 9pm SAST for 3 hours of amazing South African Music!
You can also like our page and join The Night Zone group!!!!
Please drop your requests on our The Night Zone Facebook group!3 hr 7 min - Rock It Real Radio Show 20th March 2025ALRIGHTY THEN!!!!!! Here's the recording of last night's Rock It Real.... The cool South African music radio show that kicks off every Thursday LIVE at 9pm SAST!
Disclaimer: DJ Squeek's voice was still a little rough but the show went on!!!!
He played some ROCKING tunes from Dylan Tori, Radio Rats, Nomadic Orchestra, Gordon Rocker, Bright Blue, Steve Hofmeyr, Ricus Nel, BLVD HVNNY, Medicine Boy, Elle E, Ruff Majik, Lenoy Barkai, Them Tornados, The Medicine Dolls, Human Nebula, The Drift, Atlantic South, Indie Dog, Spoonfeedas, Shadowclub, Fuzigish, The Radio Rats, Desmond And The Tutus and lots more real South African music!!!!!
To listen to the show live, click on the link and click "LISTEN" button!!!!!
https://zeno.fm/radio/the-night-zone-and-rock-it-real-cbv3/
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Also Please post your SA music requests on our Rock It Real Facebook page and/or group... (You can also like our page and join our group!)3 hr 21 min - Rock It Real Radio Show 13th March 2025Rock It Real is a radio show playing pure South African music and hosted by DJ Squeek. The show goes out LIVE from Cape Town, South Africa EVERY Thursday evening from 9pm till midnight SAST.
To listen in, click on the link and click "LISTEN" button!!!!!
https://zeno.fm/radio/the-night-zone-and-rock-it-real-cbv3/
(PLEASE SHARE FAR AND WIDE!!!!!!!)
We've had people listening in from South Africa, Japan, Kosovo, UK, USA, Singapore, Uruguay, Portugal, Canada, Spain, Germany, Ireland, Australia and New Zealand!!!!!!!
Tonight was a really special show:
We played the brand new The Narrow track "Dying Heart" and the brand new GAZ track "Afterlife" a day ahead of the official release!
Also dropped cool tracks from Grey Noise, Ross Learmonth, Billy Inglish, Doe, YESTERDAY'S PUPIL, Gangs of Ballet, The Anti Retro Vinyls, psycöcö, I'm with the Singer, Radio Rats, John Niel and lots more pure South African music!!!!!
Please follow Rock It Real on X!!!!!!
https://x.com/rockitrealsa
Also Please post your SA music requests on our Rock It Real Facebook page and/or group...3 hr 13 min - The Night Zone 'Loadshedding Special' Radio Show10th March 2025We had a CRACKING The Night Zone radio show last night!
We decided to do a "loadshedding" themed show so we played songs about light, dark, electricity and taking the power back!!!!!! 🤘💥⚡️🎤🎸🎼
We don't normally print the full playlist but we thought that IF there is any loadshedding BS coming up in the future, you might want to crack open a six pack/bottle of wine/bottle of whiskey/drink of your choice and put this list onto your music player to while away the hours of darkness!
So.... Here's the complete list:- Touch of Class (Ruhan du Toit and Deon van der Merwe) - The Sound of Silence (Simon & Garfunkel Cover)
- Belinda Carlisle - Leave a Light On
- Bruce Springsteen - Dancing In The Dark
- Cliff Richard - Power To All Our Friends
- Santana And Everlast - Put Your Lights On
- Squeal - Killing The Light
- Nina Simone - In the Dark
- The Blasters - Dark Night
- Ike Moriz - Light Is Dark
- Kombat Fudge - Lights Go Out
- Third Eye Blind - Darkness
- The Traveling Wilburys - Heading For The Light
- Pink Floyd - Let There Be More Light
- Depeche Mode - Black Celebration
- Gary Numan - Are 'Friends' Electric?
- GAZ - Into The Light
- Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark - Electricity
- New Model Army - Lights Go Out
- Fields of the Nephilim - Power
- Freak of Nature - Powerless
- Woodstock Mafia - Electric Light
- Ozzy Osbourne - Shot In The Dark
- AC/DC - High Voltage
- Scorpions - Blackout
- Sugardrive - Brighter
- Dommin - Dark Holiday
- Hoobastank - Crawling In The Dark
- W.A.S.P. - Inside The Electric Circus (dedicated to our SA power entity!!!!)
- Iron Maiden - Fear Of The Dark
- Ozzy Osbourne - Waiting For Darkness
- Entombed - Lights Out
- Rage Against The Machine - Take The Power Back
- Children Of Bodom - Shot In The Dark
- Danzig - Power Of Darkness
- Avenged Sevenfold - Darkness Surrounding
- Arch Enemy - Dark Insanity
- Killswitch Engage - Fixation On The Darkness
3 hr 8 min - Rock It Real Radio Show 6th March 2025We had a ROCKING Rock It Real on Thursday Night (6th March) at 9pm SAST with great South African music. Cool SA music info, breaking news and lotsa other cool SA music related stuff!!!!!
Will played some tracks from Black Diamond, Justin Bergh, PEBBLEMAN, Farryl Purkiss, Wendy Oldfield, Lionel Bastos, JUST JINJER, The Cinematic Rejects, Doomfairy, Squeal, Fourth Son South, Springbok Nude Girls, Shadowclub, Wolftown and more!
Please follow Rock It Real on X!!!!!!
https://x.com/rockitrealsa
Also Please post your SA music requests on our Rock It Real Facebook page and/or group...3 hr 8 min - The Night Zone Radio Show 3rd March 2025Had a really awesome The Night Zone show last night Here's the recording if you missed it:
I played a real mix of genres and eras including tracks from Talking Heads, Van Halen, Bad Company, The Jam, Gorky Park, Men At Work, Devo, Led Zeppelin, Sugarcubes, Pixies, The Hooters, Poe, 69 Eyes, Scorpions, Iron Maiden, Lacuna Coil, Kittie, Lawnmower Deth, Lordi, Voice Of Destruction, Red Helen and more!
I also dropped the brand ne track "I Will Not Break" from Disturbed!
Please like The Night Zone Facebook Page and join The Night Zone Facebook group! Drop your song requests!!!!!!
Catch you this Thursday at 9pm SAST for Rock It Real... Pure South African Music!3 hr 7 min - Rock It Real South African Music Show 27th February 2025Absoloutley AMAZING Rock It Real sho last night! Here's the recording of 3 hours of pure unadulterated South African music!!!!
Played tracks from Liquid Sky SA, Patrick Summers (Patricksummersmusic), Dylan Tori's new track, Basson Laas, Jasper Dan ZA, The Parlotones, Juke Royal, The Asylum Kids, Betty's Nuklear, Black Lung Band, Dustland Express and many more!
We played a brand new track from AlphaLine and also dropping Chaos Doctrine's "The SA-bbath Doctirine Chapter III SA Tribute Mix"!
ALSO!!!!!! We played Crowmaster's AMAZING new track, "Her Champagne's Flat"
Please follow Rock It Real on X!!!!!!
https://x.com/rockitrealsa
Also Please post your SA music requests on our Rock It Real Facebook page and/or group...
Catch you all on Monday night at 9pm SAST fo The Night Zone!!!!3 hr 11 min
About Rock It Real
From the publisher's feed
DJ Squeek is passionate about South African music and has been in the industry since the late 80's. Rock It Real was specifically created as a platform to bring undiscovered SA talent to the forefront…
and showcase bands that would usually be passed over by mainstream channels.
Rock It Real has what the mainstream media lacks and it focuses on playing seriously good South African pop, rock, metal and alternative music.
Rock It Real is an SA music show on GQ Radio hosted by DJ Squeek and broadcast LIVE from Cape Town, South Africa every Thursday from 9pm to Midnight (SAST)… You can listen live here: https://gqradio.co.za
DJ Squeek presented the Western Cape gig guide every Tuesday Live on Barney Simon’s SA music show on Radio 2000 and then on Radio 2000’s 8 til’ Late with Nicole & Kamza. He co-presented the WTF (Wine, Travel & Food) show on 2oceansVibe Radio and co-hosted breakfast show on UCT Radio.
He was the music journalist for Cape Times’ “Top Of The Times” for 10 years and also wrote for magazines such as Your LMG, Stephen “Sugarman” Segerman’s SA Rock Digest.
DJ Squeek co-wrote and produced the Seven Day Story track, "Going Nowhere Slowly" for the TV series of the same name, compiled the music for 52 episodes and released a 32-track double CD set of music from the show. He was also the location sound engineer and travelled with the GNS crew for 40, 000 kilometres visiting places such as Lesotho, Mozambique, Transkei, Limpopo Province, Eastern Cape, Northern Cape, Swaziland and Namibia to mention a few!
He’s worked with bands such as Jack Parow, Black Cat Bones, Springbok Nude Girls, Shadowclub, Zebra & Giraffe, The Awakening, Johnny Clegg, Sigue Sigue Sputnik, Linton Kwesi Johnson, Ard Matthews, Dave Ferguson, Crimson House and many more.
DJ Squeek has attended many shows and music festivals and interviewed many local and international artists including; Ed Kowalzcyk (+LIVE+); Adrian Smith (Iron Maiden); Graham Gouldman (10CC); Gary Brooker (Procul Harem); Sixto Rodriguez and Justin Hayward & John Lodge (Moody Blues), ), Ian Hill (Judas Priest), Will Turpin (Collective Soul), Martin Degville (Sigue Sigue Sputnik), Liz Mitchell (Boney-M) and more to name a few!!!
Interesting facts about DJ Squeek:
- His first stage appearance was in front of over 2500 people, supporting “No Friends Of Harry” at the University of Cape Town Yellow Level where he met Barney Simon for the first time.
- He has specialised in rigging sound in helicopters.
Rock It Real social media:
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/RockItReal
X: https://x.com/rockitrealsa
YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/RockItReal
Mixcloud: https://www.mixcloud.com/DJSQUEEK
Rock It Real has what the mainstream media lacks and it focuses on playing seriously good South African pop, rock, metal and alternative music.
Rock It Real is an SA music show on GQ Radio hosted by DJ Squeek and broadcast LIVE from Cape Town, South Africa every Thursday from 9pm to Midnight (SAST)… You can listen live here: https://gqradio.co.za
DJ Squeek presented the Western Cape gig guide every Tuesday Live on Barney Simon’s SA music show on Radio 2000 and then on Radio 2000’s 8 til’ Late with Nicole & Kamza. He co-presented the WTF (Wine, Travel & Food) show on 2oceansVibe Radio and co-hosted breakfast show on UCT Radio.
He was the music journalist for Cape Times’ “Top Of The Times” for 10 years and also wrote for magazines such as Your LMG, Stephen “Sugarman” Segerman’s SA Rock Digest.
DJ Squeek co-wrote and produced the Seven Day Story track, "Going Nowhere Slowly" for the TV series of the same name, compiled the music for 52 episodes and released a 32-track double CD set of music from the show. He was also the location sound engineer and travelled with the GNS crew for 40, 000 kilometres visiting places such as Lesotho, Mozambique, Transkei, Limpopo Province, Eastern Cape, Northern Cape, Swaziland and Namibia to mention a few!
He’s worked with bands such as Jack Parow, Black Cat Bones, Springbok Nude Girls, Shadowclub, Zebra & Giraffe, The Awakening, Johnny Clegg, Sigue Sigue Sputnik, Linton Kwesi Johnson, Ard Matthews, Dave Ferguson, Crimson House and many more.
DJ Squeek has attended many shows and music festivals and interviewed many local and international artists including; Ed Kowalzcyk (+LIVE+); Adrian Smith (Iron Maiden); Graham Gouldman (10CC); Gary Brooker (Procul Harem); Sixto Rodriguez and Justin Hayward & John Lodge (Moody Blues), ), Ian Hill (Judas Priest), Will Turpin (Collective Soul), Martin Degville (Sigue Sigue Sputnik), Liz Mitchell (Boney-M) and more to name a few!!!
Interesting facts about DJ Squeek:
- His first stage appearance was in front of over 2500 people, supporting “No Friends Of Harry” at the University of Cape Town Yellow Level where he met Barney Simon for the first time.
- He has specialised in rigging sound in helicopters.
Rock It Real social media:
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/RockItReal
X: https://x.com/rockitrealsa
YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/RockItReal
Mixcloud: https://www.mixcloud.com/DJSQUEEK