 But right now, Risha shout out to you Thank you so much for being here. We see you and right now we get to the interview We get to meet our guests for today and not what they are all about Do you have something else to say before that? No, somebody here just move He throws out a shout out saying it's time for playing great hits Okay, we love it We love to see it Alright so our guests, they don't need to say shout out, they've been here before But that was a while back It's been a few years, it's been a few years So we're going to do a recap just to know where they've been But if you're meeting them for the first time They are a three piece rock metal band from Nairobi, Kenya The band was formed in 2017 And they have a second album since 2017 Imagine they have a new album out Two albums, just in a span of like, you know what Four years, five years, that's really dope So can we meet our guests for today Let's put our hands together and welcome That's really dope How are you guys doing? Nice to be back, love your energy as always Thank you Alright, thank you, thank you so much I think he goes well with rock and roll Doesn't go well with everything but yeah Thanks so, alright so There's Gan, there's Dano, there's P-Man But I'm going to let you guys reintroduce yourselves Just probably And tell us a little bit about Strictline Connection For the guys who are here, who are not here The last time you guys dropped by Like you said, I'm Gan Yeah, and what you do for the band? I know but I'm the guitarist and vocalist For the band Yeah, cool Dano Baseman He's the bassist Let me introduce myself Dano Baseman And then of course we have P-Man Yeah, I'm P-Man, I'm the drummer I keep them in time But I don't keep time So he's a blind dude, he's a blind I know, but it's so good to see P-Man talk Like even at events, he's always like Just drumming and all that He doesn't talk to people a lot Like I'm so shocked like Me and him could vibe but then He's just like by himself With his drums He's just kicking it by himself So it's good to see like Yeah Whatever you did today, do that every day Alright, so our story and connection Man, it's been a couple of years Tell us about the journey How has it been? I know it's been a couple of ups and downs Yeah, so take us through Well, first of all, you guys keep time I saw that When you say he got here at the same time Like he was driving in and I'm just like Coming in and oh wow Yeah, I was a bit embarrassed by that Thank you for keeping time, it's a good thing We've been busy For the last couple of years I mean, obviously it was Covid That hit everyone pretty hard and stuff And everything kind of Slowed down But then during Covid We actually met up with Dano And he brought a different kind of sound To our music A more rounded sound And we're working on a second album Called Out the Vengeance And that's kind of testament to Like symbolically how We're Out the Vengeance Out of Covid With a new sound With just a new kind of outlook on the music And hopefully a better A better album Awesome, and thank you for Explaining that, I really wanted to know Out of the Vengeance, I'm like Who are you out to get? She'll be lying You know Just cover But I know that I know what it means After you dope And Dano came in later You had another bassist So She's playing so quickly So fast, was it hard Or was it just easy for him For you guys to sing And just like carry on First of all I was just starting Out playing bass And then I joined Straight line connection We hit it off Pretty quick That was pretty quick Even learning The new SLC style We do a lot of Exciting On the first learner Do you like struggle a little bit Because Dano is here He's also part of another band She's in a care style Of course How do you even balance that Metal And then can you sleep is a bit laid back So how do you do that Does it come naturally I mean it's a lot of practice First of all As SLC we are consistent We meet every week We jam We exchange ideas It's all about consistency That's all it's all about When you guys started You said So What is it called The whole idea of you coming together Was to make sure you bring rock and roll To the forefront To make sure that rock and roll becomes More mainstream than it already is So are we still with that Are we working towards that What are we doing to make sure we accomplish that No that's definitely the idea I mean we still want to keep pushing Rock and metal Within East Africa And build the scene over here That's why We've been Consistently practicing We want there to be more rock events We take time to do music videos Just to put content out there For the viewers The listeners, the fans And even people who are not so much into rock Maybe try to grab a few of them And if they like the music Of course they're gonna love them How can you know it A lot of people when they come to realize They're like no I don't like rock Because they haven't given it a chance But once you drag them to one of the events They're like whoa that's one of the coolest things Ever And then they're like where is the next one They're afraid Just because they haven't People are always afraid of them knowing Who they don't know The good thing with rock shows They're always live You can't have someone lip syncing a rock show Thank you Everyone loves live music No matter what genre it is Everyone loves live music It's live music and imagine Having a rock show Where you see gun right here Just on the hash bubbles And growling and all that And you think it's pre-recorded It's actually super live And that's what I love about it You can fake it in other genres But in rock music You can't You can't just be there and you fake it And that's really amazing We love that And you are the first band In East Africa to have A full length album With the first I would say hard rock Not the first band With the first hard rock Alt metal band To have two full length albums East and Central Africa I saw that and was like oh wow I understand the words I'm seeing but I'm like what is that So two full length albums An album consists of at least Eight songs and at least About 40 minutes in length There's many bands that have EPs There are five, six songs So we fall into that Full length album Because of the time The number of songs And all that stuff Hard rock band to have done that But I mean Our music is hard rock Metal as well But we're not like full on But even metal has many sub genres There's so many sub genres More than 100 I was so surprised I thought it was just five Because if you ask me I was like oh this dude This death And I'm like oh wow there's like 100 There's so many Hard rock slash heavy metal First hard rock slash heavy metal band But we also have some Hard rock songs that are not so metal Then we have some that are more heavy metal So we don't know where we are Metal rock I think on the metal side A little bit on the metal side I think that describes it But on the alternative side I don't know I don't remember all it's about So alt metal is another sub genre Of metal basically But I'm liking that And another thing is that You guys have Within that span of period you've been able to do All these time The first album was Space Lace And then now Out With Vengeance Within like five years We have bands that go up to like 10 years Before they even give you just like You know like two singles or something So how are you guys Able to do that if it's a secret I think like Deno said it's But I think more than that is discipline Like one of our missions that you Correctly pointed out is to get Rock in general Whether it's hard rock, soft rock, metal or whatever In general our mission is to get that Out in front As much as possible I don't think metal will ever be mainstream But as much as possible get all those In the closet rockers out there In Kenya who are hiding and then Like you pointed out when they come to the show They're like wow this is amazing So it's discipline Once a week or At the very least once every couple Of weeks we meet up and we jam So yeah we're working on new stuff already Oh wow They're just here to launch this album And they're already working on new stuff Like I cannot even imagine I think you have like a lot Of just pouring in new like you just have like this lyrics You see like in the matrix Like I feel like that's how it is Like you just have like a lyrics Dropping like this like you just Or you're just like super I can't even imagine that, that's like a lot So how do you come up with that Like when it comes to songwriting Is it like a joint effort Are you just specifically the one who does it Because you're the vocalist Most people always assume it's the vocalist Who always like composes songs Sometimes you know they'll just come And jam and see what comes up I have just so much stuff in my head And whenever we jam And we're like okay guys what do you think I have a riff here, what do you think of this And then we just kind of Then we jam on the riff And then we see where it goes The vocals actually interestingly For us come at the end Yeah First is the jamming A lot of rock artists that They try that and they feel like Especially when you get on stage And you just get people's attention Before the vocals come in you just like And everybody has just come to the front Now they are ready They want to see what is about to go down And I think it's a good thing And being able to do that on stage And also in studio when you're recording It's very different from a lot of other people Imagine if you had a mainstream song That is just like You know just like drums But people, I don't think it will work in other genres It's going to be, it's hard Because they don't have a lot of Instrumentals In most songs so they just Relent vocals a lot So I can imagine a mainstream song That is just like They don't do a lot of drums You know It's crazy but it's awesome at the same time And before we talk about the album Of course Piman has talked to us about this Because they know has been here too much Piman will have to talk to us a lot But I want to talk I want to talk about Undertale Which is amazing We talked to Max from Rush about it And I know you're He's one of the co-founders But mainly you came up with that So maybe you can talk to us about that For those who don't know Undertale It's a series of Rock events right And we actually, we were the last one Max played and I was hosting into the store And this guy right here is there He's usually the founder So you can tell us about that Like It falls into a mission Of bringing rock and metal into the forefront And Undertale is It's an underground event That's where Undertale comes from And me and Max got together And we're like let's give A chance to all the bands All the rock DJs Anyone that has some sort of rock affiliation And it doesn't, you know It's anything underground It can even be underground rap But the whole idea of Undertale Is right at the moment Mostly rock and metal And we have it every three months So far very successful Very successful And we were very happy The sound system at Shelter Where we do Undertale is amazing It is amazing Incredible sound system Very hard to do in life So definitely something to check out For those who have never gone to Undertale event The next one, I mean we just had one A couple weeks ago The next one is probably coming up In Feb sometime End of Jan beginning Feb somewhere there So yeah if you guys haven't Been there check out Undertale And we're on Instagram Alright and speaking of Undertale Daniel with his other band Can you please go to play for the first time As the band, how was that? Was it exciting? And seeing just the reception of the fans That are there, how did that make you guys feel? It was a good opportunity And like Gunn said First time we played there Maybe we're an upcoming band Underground band And I mean we had fun We had fun and I think The fans had fun They did, I'm one of them And I was right there And each saying like I don't think these guys actually understand How good they are I don't think they know they are good Because they are really good But I don't think they know it We need to tell them for them to know So yeah that was really dope Shout out to Nikesia Man I think she's like one of the best vocalists We have in Kenya right now She needs to be hired People need to know all about her She's dope Give us all the details So it seems you're out with a vengeance On me today For being silent for too long Too long Well out with a vengeance To me is I mean we've been through A once in a lifetime Pandemic Which is very rare And now it's time to let's come out Let's move past all this See a lot of the songs In this album Talk about Some of the ups, the downs Love, all these things Emotions we're experiencing And A lot of the messages we want to push Is get up there, get out there Come out with a vengeance You can't hold yourself back In this small space That you've been put So just Give it all you've got And come out with that vengeance And you'll make something of yourself And that's going to usually apply To anything, whether it's walking out Whether it's this motivation through life Trying to get back there It cuts across Whether it's a break up You know trying to get over someone See another thing, a lot of the underlying themes Are to do with History, warrior tribe You know many of us Have Our forefathers have all fought As freedom fighters In different situations And you know it's Don't leave that behind Fight for yourself as well now And the culture Bring it out there See everyone's different in their own way And if you don't all come out With a vengeance How will you get to know Be brought out in a very vibrant way So that even the next generation Knows about it, they know where they come from Because culture is being lost Generationally It is, it's true Some people don't even know who their grandparents were Forget even the great They don't know who they are great Because you were born when they were not there They can't speak their mother tongues It's just slowly dwindling away Especially us Kenyans You know those people who are like They are like You know So that's actually true It's a good reminder And you've spoken to us about At least with the visuals of the album The ones that is How many songs on the album? We have 8 songs So the first one was The first release The first single called Jolanda Yeah that's the first one And the second one with the visuals About Warrior Tribe And Jolanda I know It's very personal It's about your dad So maybe you can shed some light on that Just a little bit if it's not too much Yeah no it's just briefly Jolanda is from the area My dad came from Moved to Kenya Basically he just gave us Everything unconditionally He passed away a few years ago So it was just a Remembrance release Awesome It's good to do that I see how it relates With Warrior Tribe It relates in a way Like he said Out of the vengences It's very simple Coming out of the lows Any sort of low Unfortunately because of time I don't even know where time goes We're here and it's We have an album launch Yeah that's what I want to talk about Before we go you have to give us details Where is it going to be Where people can get their tickets Yeah give us all the details Yeah so we're doing a mega album launch party It's a Monty's genre party It's going to be very rock heavy Definitely We also have a female rapper And we also have DJ Jagi Who is going to play some normal after party stuff It's going to be held at The Craft in Westlands Which is just opposite Shelter It's on Electric Avenue basically in Westlands And tickets you can buy on Oh wait that's Electric You said the Crafty is that Opposite Shelter That area is It used to be called Electric Avenue Oh Electric Avenue Yeah that's what I want you to get I think it's Woodville It's called The name of the road is Woodville Grove And the name of the place is The Craft Amazing venue Quite massive And tickets can be bought On MOOC.com Do you still have an offer for An early bird? Yeah I mean early bird tickets are going fairly fast As you would expect Only 600 Bob I'm going to give my right now I don't want to pay 1000 But we only have until tomorrow night For early bird And getting sold fairly fast But then after that we still have the advance For 800 Bob And then 1000 of the cake That's pretty fair if you ask me It's super, super fair Make sure you get your tickets Go watch them on stage I promise you will not You're not going to be disappointed They bring their A game Especially at the album launch I remember the last one was right here at Museum Hill It was so dope Rockets go hard I promise Alright so we're going to play I think Out of the Avenger We actually played that We played out of the Avenger And then come back We're still here for Probably 10 minutes Let's do that