 Let's meet our guest for today. He's not new in the Kenyan rock scene. If you are a real Kenyan rocker, then you already know. If you go to gigs, you already know who I'm talking about. He's an alternative and a pop rock artist from 254 Nairobi. You already know who he is. If you've been following up on our socials, you already know who I'm talking about. He has vocals for Max, you're ready to help me welcome him? And the guys in the studio, ladies and gentlemen, let's welcome for the first time on rock tour, like ever, 20 more days. Yeah, thank you, thank you, thank you for having me here. You are most welcome. Where have you been? Like, bro, I've been trying to have you on this show for the longest time. Like, I don't know. It's been too long. I know that, I know that. We're just working on our projects. So right now the songs, we have like 10 songs down. So like, we gotta get back to life. We gotta get back to life. So let's do that. And speaking of getting back to life, before we get to talk to you, maybe when there's like, lay a little bit for us so that people can know what you're all about. And that's it to Nacho. Definitely. All right, let's do that. So example, this first song is one of our songs. It's called About the Money. About the Money. I love it. It makes sense right now. Right now. With this economy, it makes sense. Yeah, a lot of sense. Because everything is about the money in the end of the day. So this song goes like this. All right. You have an incredible voice. You know that, right? Much appreciated. Right. Now for the guys watching at home and you don't know who he is because he's incredible. He goes by the name. Okay, his band goes by 20 more days. All right. So because we've never heard you on this show, so we're just gonna start from the start. Let's just back it up a little bit. We go to where it all started. 20 more days. Let's start with the name. 20 more days. What was happening? You had 20 more days before your first gig. That's a nice question. That's a nice question. So, okay. I came up with the name 20 more days back in 2013. I was working. I was also doing my attachment in Kericho. You know, Finlay's, Kericho people, if you know Finlay's, so I was doing my attachment there, IT department. Man, I was working that job and I was like, the clock was not moving. I was looking at the clock. I worked very fast and then I look at the clock. One minute is gone. So I gave myself like 20 days. So like 20 days, I was like, I'm done. So like, I like moments in my head. So I was like, damn 20 days. 20 days to go. So man, like, I just told him, I said 20 more days. So like I had 20 more days to be free. Right. Awesome. So that's how the name came about. That's how the name came about. And of course, you're not the only one in the band. Yeah. Yeah. So 20 more days is actually a band. So you are, he goes by Simon Peter, but we don't are maybe the guys at home. Don't know the other members of the band. So you can go ahead and just introduce them. They're not here, but they're not here. My band, they are super amazing guys on the bass. We have acoustic, acoustic Anariko. We call him like the acoustic Anariko. Like, he's a very nice guitar player, but in the band he plays the bass, like his hands can move. And then on the lead guitar, we have Jack Muguna. Some of you might know him, a very dope guitarist. Also on the other guitar, we have Mosay. Mosay Stringman, we call him like that. And on the drums, we have Diba. Ah, Diba. See, there's a whole band. And that's what I love about rock artists, because everybody brings something on the table and everyone knows how to play something. How many instruments can you play? I can play three instruments. Okay, nice. How about from the guitar, what is it? Keys. Oh, I don't know how to. Do you know how to play a piano? No, I just don't know. Just, oh, you know how to play a guitar. I should be ashamed of myself. I don't know how to play anything, but I can talk and I can shout. I'm cheering squad, like, I can, like, you know, so I want to talk to people. Yeah. I can help you up for days. Like, when you play, I'm like, yay, you go and everything. Right. So, how long ago was the band formed? Okay, like the original band actually formed it. I used to go by the name Simon Peter Kold. But I remember the first, like, we did a show in some club in a cool called Rafiki's, a well back. So they were like, the next, the next band, Simon Peter Kold. And the guys were like, are you, are you Simon Peter? Why is it, are you been called Kold Kold? Cause it's at night and it's called, so actually the name. So, but the band, I formed it around 29. Oh, that's a long time ago. Yeah. That's a long time ago. And you guys have been consistent and you are still here. So maybe you can tell us, like, before 20 more days came to me, like growing up, who are some of the people that influenced who you are today? Like people you grew up listening to? First of all, I'll say it's like one of my major influences is my mom. My mom is a music teacher and a literature. So she taught me how to write poetry and also sing some vocals training. Now bands, I listened to a lot of bands. Her, let me see, let me see. There are many bands. Okay, growing up, okay. One of my major influences, it was late, okay, late, like, I went into rock later in the mid 2000s. So Likimpak definitely, Likimpak was a major influence. Chester, Rest in Peace. Chester, yeah. So that's a two months. Oh, during later. Yeah. Ultra bridge, Ultra bridge, Ultra bridge or whatever. Mantra mountain on the guitars. Foo Fighters, definitely. Oh, that means you buy them. Everybody knows like Foo Fighters are one of my favorite bands. I'm also into the indie stuff. There's some guy called Ben Rector, Plain White Teas. Plain White Teas are amazing. So there are many bands, but Likimpak did a lot to me. LP. Yeah. Like everybody loves it. Even Enroca is no LP and they respect LP. All right. This is simply awesome. Any of you guys have been doing amazing stuff, but I can even remember the first time you recorded. I saw Pangua Kando. Yeah, Pangua Kando. Pangua Kando actually did that around 2013. It's a long time ago. Yeah, but the first song we did, nobody knows, maybe my bro knows it. It's called Party. Party. Was it like a house song? Yeah, but Rokish, I think I was informed too there. Oh. Yeah. Also you said they make your music pretty early. Yeah. Eldorod people in some studio in Eldorod called Lucky Ben Studios long time ago. Yeah. That's around 2009 I think. They probably know it because on this show you have a lot of people who watch from Eldorod. Yeah. Eldorod, my people. Yeah. I'm from Eldorod. So that's the champion? Yeah. My champions. I mean my champions. Yeah. You know. And then Cheptuneba, that's like one of your biggest songs. Yeah, Cheptuneba. You did that with Spiky. No, no. The one I used to spikes is Nairobi. Oh, Nairobi. You have many songs. I don't know. I think about the money and Cheptuneba are my favourites. That's why I'm confusing that. Yeah. So tell us about Cheptuneba. So we go to Eldorod. No, no, no, no. Training and everything. Like you know. You know. Big out to my colleague girls, beautiful girls, all the women are beautiful. Okay. So Cheptuneba actually wrote it when I was in campus. Yeah. So like it was a tricky situation, but it's about a girl definitely. I knew that. But it was a tricky situation. So that was like you could relate to it. It was real life. It was a true story. Yeah. Like all the songs are all the songs are right from my experiences or my friend's experiences. Yeah. It's fine by true life. We love Cheptuneba. So what happened to Cheptuneba? Why is she now? She's married. Well, that's how life works. That's how life works. Yeah. Life works like that. They say Nairobi is one big bedroom. Yeah. Yeah. But yeah, you have a song called Nairobi as well. Yeah. I have a verse of song called Nairobi. Nairobi is actually the lyrics that Nairobi have mercy on me because Nairobi, like the many people hustling here to make ends meet. Right. It doesn't matter. Like you have a million or a million shillings or something. You still have struggles. So like I feel the struggle, man. I feel the struggle. So I wrote the song Nairobi. Yeah. Yeah. Oh, the struggles of Nairobi. Everybody can feel it, especially right now. Yeah. And the song you performed for us is Maisha. Maisha. Last month. And you know, that's not even like this year or last year. I wrote that song in 2014. Yeah. Like, you know, the thing is when it comes to money, money first of all never runs out of fashion. And the inflation happens. That's how it goes. So I thought about it back then, but I didn't expect like the economy will be the way it is right now. Right now. So I didn't expect, but because the song is very, is really, really relevant right now. Right now, especially in 2022. And you know, unfortunately, so without economy, so when things go up, they never come down. That's like strings had to be pulled. Unfortunately, even when things maybe are get a little bit better as it Hawaii shook up. But then so after that, after that song that we love so much, you guys took a height. Like it belongs to hard music from you. The thing that happened, the thing that happened is the corona definitely. Yeah. Like everything was happening well, like we're doing shows, we're doing amazing shows. Yeah. But when it happened, you know, like, most of the clubs are closed. So it was decided now to just relax and think ahead. Other ideas. But right now we're back. Yeah, you had to think about something else. How were you guys copying because you know, most artists will say like you are both because you guys had a gig weekly. Yeah, you had a weekly gig. Like there's this money coming in. This is and then all of a sudden there's none of that. So what for you doing at that? It was a hard time. Right? You just know it was a hard time. But for everybody. But yeah, but for everybody else, but you've since learned from that. Yeah, definitely. Yeah. People have learned from that and definitely. But a decision. So I have a question for you that Dr. Ridge wanted us to ask when you're recording this song. I don't know what it's called, but it's from one of your performances. Oh, okay. Okay. Yeah. I've seen the two. Yes. I know the song. So that song is called Nikiteleza. I wrote it for the soldiers. We actually recorded it. He's being mastered by Nick. What do you know, Nick? Nick is more like you. Like he's been, we've been planning for him to come on the show for the longest time, but he's always like but he's gonna come through though. But he's a producer. He's literally the best. So like one of the best sound engineers I've ever listened to. Yeah. Yeah. And he's a cool guy. So yeah. So Nick is engineering it. The song is called Nikiteleza. Nikiteleza. When is it dropping? Probably after elections. I don't know. Right now, you and the killer move to a next level. Like I said, we're going to go after elections after elections. And then we're going to do this sometime, you know. Yeah. So, but you have an event coming up. You get at least things up, opened up. There are things that are happening right now. You performed on or you on the perform. What is it called? Like you're one of the acts that performed on the first edition of Undertale. Yeah. And we have another edition this month. So you can give us the details. Okay. So the event will be happening. Westlands here. There's a new club called Shelter above Havana. Yeah. Above Havana. So it's a very nice club above Havana. So the event will be on 23rd of this month. It's going to be amazing. There are many bands. I'll be playing. Sesame could be playing. Lyt would be playing. Sesame go back. Yeah. Sesame go back. Yeah. And DJ girlfriend. Amazing. Should I do DJ girlfriend? Representing the ladies. Exactly. Exactly. One of the dub female DJs we have in 2-5-4 by the way. Yeah. Like she's growing really fast and she's amazing. And for those who don't know Shelter. Shelter is literally just a former crooked cube. Only that right now it looks like better. Things look way much better. Even the first event was like really dope. Yeah. It was amazing. So what should people expect? What are you bringing? So the event, yeah. First of all the tickets you may contact me via Facebook or Instagram or Twitter. They just DM you. Yeah. Just DM me. I'll get the, I'll connect with the tickets and just DM me. I'll come with the tickets. The show is going to be amazing. Yeah. Ah, dope. We are looking forward to that and I can't wait. So Mesquilla. There's 20 more days. There's Sezmic. There's DJ girlfriend. Who has, who am I living? Lyt. Oh, last year's tragedy, bro. They are amazing. Come on Joy Mesquilla. Like they've been away for a while. But I'm sure they're going to be playing their favorite, their new album. Yes. As soon as it's the first time they're going to play some songs from their new album. Verlations is my, Verlations is my favorite and it's like super hard. So if you love, it's going to be crazy. I love that. So 24th. Yeah, 23rd. Oh, 23rd of this month. Yeah. On a Saturday. 20 tickets for 800 Bob, Ali Bard, 1000 Bob at the gate. Contact 20 more days. Contact me. Yeah. Just DM me. Yeah. We're definitely going. Mox is going to come. I'm coming through. We have to rock and roll. Hashtag has always been 20 rock gigs because if you've never been to a rock gig, then you've never been to a gig. Because I was saying, you know, we're gonna play back rock is live music. Everybody is playing live. There's someone on the keys. There's like a bassist and everything live music and they go hard. So you can imagine. And so as you wind up, of course, you have like people you need to shout out to maybe probably the guys you came with and the guy maybe just too much. I don't want to shout out to all my fans. Thanks for your support. The reason I'm doing this is for you guys support our music also like definitely you Joe my guy on shout to you Joe on a shout out to Leon on a shout out to chief on a shout out to Louis on a shout out to Bram on a shout out to Sam. The list is long. So nice. Much love for me. All right. So we're going to wind up. But before that, you just remind guys your social media and where they find your music as well. Okay. So all my special media platforms is just 20 more days, two zero more days, except Twitter, which is two zero more days one. Oh, yeah. Two zero more days. Yeah. Got it. 20 more days. Thank you so much for stopping by. Unfortunately, we don't have a lot of time. We wish we had more time so that we could talk more. But before we go, of course, let's move on. You have to play for us just a little bit one, maybe Chep Chumba. Okay, Chep Chumba. Yeah. But you wanted to perform another song? Yeah. Chip Champagne. Yeah. Yes, please. So this is a new song. It's called Chip Champagne. Okay. It goes like this. Is there a little thing that counts? I like the smell of Chip Champagne, the taste of a flat beer, all the unexpected moments that made it feel alive. Slow down. The unexpected moments that made it feel so dear. A prize. So are there the tastes of a flat beer? The unexpected moments that made it feel such moments that made it a prize. They did it right here. I think this is the first time you're playing it, right? Rock tour. You know, exclusive. I'm super excited. And if you want to see more of that, just come to that undertow. He's going to be playing there while giving you details. Eight a few right now. Max Jones will take us on a music break and then we're coming right back.