 and i told you guys we have a guest in studio right here he's been out of the scene for a while but if you are a rocker you already know who he is he has you know a super rocker super punk head crazy talented one of the best dramas we have in 254 they literally call him the octave parts because i tell him he has eight hands we only see two but six are invisible ladies and gentlemen when we have me brother welcome all guys in studio Ranje rocks i do not dance but yeah you know right how are you how have you been? i'm great we have just been like where is he like we've been talking on the ground though but it's good to have you back how long has it been since you left Kenya? it's been two years that's a long time that is a very long time just two years maybe say 24 months is a long time but two years yeah when you put it like 24 months then it sounds like such a long time but it's good to have you back in Kenya right now and obviously super amazing now let's look for you for the guys at home this is the first time you've come on the show we've been running for five years and this is the first time i'm very excited you can see i'm like yeah i want to i know right thank you for coming through so let's just catch up since we've never spoken about this so let's just talk about it your love for rock music and punk especially when did that begin like was it high school was it like way back how did that come about? maybe way back yeah i mean i started playing music and then i was playing just church music and then i got into jazz and then someone introduced me to rock yeah i remember my first rock mp3 was actually uh it had creed and linkin park yeah you started well yeah i started heavy when you two turned out to have real love in no actually not turned out to have real love in but no that was later yeah that was later and i was like i'm listening to Daidu like getting emo and stuff but i started heavy and then that's later on i started discovering like punk rock like proper punk band from the 70s yeah i super love and uh drums because you are a drummer as well as much as you love rock music you also are a drummer so uh did you go to school for that why you just like did you home school did you go to youtube uh group of schools how did that happen? i did a bit of everything yeah um i started playing uh of course uh i'm from western kenya yeah and drums play there all the time yeah of course and for fashos yeah so i'll stay with my shoshu as a tiny boy and i started playing you know percussion in the village and then later on um yeah i started playing drums um mostly self taught but then later on i i took formal lessons yeah and got like classically trained and stuff like that so it's been a journey it's been a whole journey yeah i know and you have to talk you have to take us through the the whole journey below me it's been a journey you played for plg and just before you traveled shortly before you had just left crystal axis but before you left crystal you had been playing with them for a minute take us through that how did the whole plg crystal and uh everything happen for you playing with bands playing with rock bands i'd say so my first ever rock band was called the awakening yeah and this is a band we formed back in 2007 yeah we were teenagers just uh with friends of mine from church and actually we just just played in church and then someone was like you know there's a battle of the bands and you have to it's happening next weekend and you need uh three original songs and two covers and we're just here playing like hill song music you know and then and then we decided to uh to to be proactive and actually write so in seven days we wrote three original songs and then we went to Razora's this club there used to be opposite um he knows it yeah yeah so uh opposite black diamond black yeah so so we'd go there every Sunday every first Sunday of the month we'd have battle of the bands there and that's where i started playing so uh i was with this band they're working in for a long time and then of course because we were in college teenagers and then someone leaves as bands always happen yeah someone left and then and then i was vacant so i started playing with uh i played a lot of other bands in between like last of a dying breed whatever and then i played with dove slim yeah dove slim like people oh people everybody loves dove slim yeah like everyone is always like what is that song because i love it just if it is like you didn't go my guy even and rock us they're always curious about them yeah so i played with dove slim for a while um we won a few battle of the bands and then and then we parted ways the we took a break and then uh during that break plg called me to to to play with that legend yeah because plg had been making waves for a long time by that time and i was like whoa plg wants me to play with them i'm not gonna waste time so i was there uh yeah so that's how i got involved with plg um for a while again we we we did uh i think we were the first band ken and rock band contemporary rock band to actually play abroad so so we did that came back and then and then later on uh started playing chrysalaxis yeah and we've stayed with chrysalaxis for a minute yeah for a very long time all right now um so i don't dive right into like chrysalaxis and are like you living and everything but before you left you guys had our big event in south africa uh how did that go because we haven't had a chance to host chrysal we haven't talked to them about that but you played in south africa and you were featured in a movie as well how how did that happen how do you get these connections you you're just like your netflix you're in you know making moves and everything tell us about that how did that come about and how was the experience the experience was great um as you'd expect but how it all came about is because uh i i i do i do a lot of artist relations right yeah so that that's been my job in europe like i work in media and and the cultural space right so um with chrysalaxis is um we're just looking for opportunities really and i was talking to different people and then maybe a year later someone had spoken to through another old friend was like i know this guy who plays in a punk band because there's an opportunity where um this company was converting um uh a book by terry pratchett you know this qual series into uh into a series and they needed a punk band an african punk band and we just happened to be in the scene so it was more like uh opportunity meeting preparation and and we just uh we just rolled with it yeah yeah i'm sorry all right so let's do this uh we're gonna start something out in a minute but because we've been talking for a few ronja is still here you can send him any questions anything that you've been uh you know dying to ask him please do that get that in order we come back and you let us know that but for now kevin ties plays us