 Hi guys, what's up? How's it going? It's great to be here. It's good to have you in studio. Finally! I love your energy. You love my energy? I love your energy, it's crazy. I don't know, it's coffee. No, it's just coffee. I had coffee, man. It's crazy, but it's for rocksters. Rocksters are supposed to be like... You know, like most people, they... No, I love it. It's great to be here. I know, it's just hyper. Too much sugar, I think. You know, it's always nice to be with rockers. Yeah, rockers. They are awesome. Rockers are the coolest people to hang around with. If you're feeling low, just call a rockster. Or just hang out with them. And it, um... I don't know, it catches on to everybody. Like, it lights up the room. So viral. Yeah. Alright. Awesome. So guys, if you're just joining us, these are straight-line connections. You know, towards the end of last year, I was asking you, like, why haven't we had them yet? Like, they're so cool, they need to come over. Just chill. Just chill. Just chill. Let's wait for them to release another song. They'll be here. They'll be here. Just chill. So you're finally here. And we're so excited. And I'm sure so many guys at home are excited just as we are. So welcome to Y2F4. This is the premiere. Okay. The debut of you guys being here on Y2F4. It's good to have in the studio. Alright. So we'll just go ahead and start maybe with your names. You tell them the name of the band is Straight Line Connection. But we want to know you individually. Yes. Alright. So yeah, we'll start with him. You introduce yourself and what you do for the band. Sure. Yeah. My name is Gunn. I'm the guitarist. Gunn, like G-U-N. G-U-N and simple. Oh, okay. Cool. I think that's your real name. Straight Line Connection. That's what people need to know. That's what matters. Sorry. Sorry. Me, I'm Ruben. Yeah. I'm the bass player. I always love basses. I told you before. Yeah. No, no, no. Not like that. For some reason. My dad was in charge of buying. Somehow and he was like a bass guitarist. So it's in the family. Yeah. So whenever I see basses, I'm like, hmm. You and my dad should have hang out. You know. Alright. So moving on. Oh yeah. My name's Parham. But from the start, I've been called P-Man. I know. P-Man. It's also like go buy in the band. That's what I'm doing. And I'm the drummer for Straight Line Connection. Drummer. Awesome. Like good to have you guys in the studio. Maybe Bart, we just want to know, maybe give us a little bit of a background about the band. So when was it formed and buy who and how many guys are in the band? Yeah. That's a good question. So it's just three of us for now. Yeah. Awesome. And we were formed around August 2017. Oh, this is the other day. That's the other day, man. Yeah. I was expecting like, we said it like, you know, ten years back by... We were actually very lucky. We played the Michael first of all. Yeah. Yeah. Remember, you catch and raise. This is the first time I was like, I was, you know, almost. Yeah. Almost. And I was like, okay. Well, those guys just play. Yeah. And then you're like, what? What have they been? Yeah. I've never seen these guys. Yeah. Okay. Because Metanoia was the first like... Do you say like Indian band? Really cool. And then you just went like, shh. Never saw. And then I was like, actually I was like, is Metanoia back? No, no. There's a whole different crew. They're called straight. I'm like, hmm. I actually remember playing a bass guitar from one of you guys. It was a straight line. Yeah. Yeah. The brown bass guitar. Yeah. We had a... We've gone through different bassists. Ah, yeah. Become and go. But Ruben's been with us for quite a while now. Oh, really? Yeah. Okay. Cool. Cool. Nice. All right. Nice. Yeah. Okay. So that is like our two years. One and a half. One and a half years. One and a half years. I'm very afraid. And they're making moves in the industry. I'm actually working on an album. You're working on an album? Yeah. No. I was expecting like, okay. So we're working on an EP that will be... I don't know many names. Some bands, you know, who I'm talking about. Some bands, my good friends. Did you hear that? Did you hear that? Yes. Sometimes I've been here for over, I don't know. A long time. But I feel like this is what we need right now. Because we're talking about taking rock to mainstream. To make him rock mainstream. And I feel like we need this kind of energy. Not just do you come with one by one song. And then people wonder like, where did you go to? I feel like we need this. Like we actually need this right now. Because he's the activist. He's like, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes. Yeah. Absolutely. And you know, like one of our missions is to bring, like you said, rock back to mainstream. Yeah. Rockers who are hiding somewhere. Yeah. They don't exist or other bands exist. Right. Some really good bands out there. Yeah. Right. But you can not do that if they don't release more music and videos. We need videos. We need music. So we're excited. You guys will have an album soon. All right. So I feel like that was the question that you could answer to Kim and Lisa, but then now since it's here, that's cool. But maybe you tell us about Australian Connection. What's the origin of the name? Where did it come from? I actually don't know. You know, we went for about a month. Him and I were just sending each other messages of very different names, all sorts of names. We didn't know which one to use. And then after a lot of thinking, we're like, you know what? This one rings a bit. It has a certain ring to it. Yeah. So we stuck with it. We wanted to change it in between, but we thought, you know, let's just stick with it and see how it goes. And it has grown on funds. No. Yeah. They're really cool. They're just like straight, you know, and they have a connection, but they are straight, you know. That's cool. That's amazing though. Just finding people who share the same. Like, you know, sometimes it's hard. Sometimes you compromise. Just being with some people because it's like work. We need to get it done. But finding people who share the same goal as you and everything, I feel like that's magic, right? Yeah. I usually say that's tamu. Yeah. He speaks that kind of so he didn't know. I know. That's tamu. How long have you guys known each other? Just since the band formed actually. Oh, really? Yeah. No way. I know, right? I feel like, oh, so we met in college and then this one, we met like... Actually, one of my cousins is a mutual friend. Oh. I was in a band before called Bass 2-4. Oh, Bass 2-4. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. That was an interesting band. Yeah. We were mostly doing covers. Yeah. We'd play at open mic nights. Yeah. What I usually like about the band is like, they used to have two bassists. Yeah. Two bassists. Yeah. Two guitarists. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Four total string instruments. Yeah, it was interesting. And then the ladies, yeah. Yeah. But I like, if you're there, I like the split because I think now you're in straight line. There's one who's playing with Wish. Yeah, yeah. She also plays guitar bass. Yeah. Jessica. Jessica, she plays bass. Yeah. That's cool. That's cool. Awesome. I would love that. Can you teach me how to play bass? I want that. Like playing bass. I enjoy it. I check who plays bass. That is so badass. You know. I play bass. For straight line connection. Yeah. Yeah. Oh, he teaches. Yeah. Oh, sign me up, please. Yeah. All right. So as much as it's rock music, so what can we say? You guys are called the genre of rock. What kind of rock? Your style, actually. I would say it's, I mean, we're all over, we play rock, but also like hard rock. And we also kind of delve into alt metal as well. Right. So we're kind of all over the place really. Ah, nice. All right. So I'm just told, I'm just told, maybe we remind our finds real quick. The names are Ruben, Piman and... Gun. Gun. Yes. So we have gun. We have gun. We have Ruben and we have Piman. Amazing. So you're telling us about this style of music. So... Yeah, that's it. I mean, like our first release, Fight on Reconcil, is more like hard rock slash alt metal. Our second release, text walking, is I would say hard rock. Yeah. But we also have like slower rock songs that we're going to release on our album. We also like have heavier songs as well that we're going to be releasing as well. We like that. She likes that. Our finds love that. That's great. And speaking of heavy, this one, she's like, okay, sorry. Sorry for calling you out. But there's a t-shirt. It says somewhere you are rocking and it had something about pop. It doesn't dig pop. Okay. I would say... Yeah. Johnny wants his name. Lawrence wants to get on there too. He doesn't feel pop. Yeah. So he doesn't feel pop. So when we talked about heavy, I'm like, well, I'm with you on that one. But we still have pop stars who watch the show. Are you talking the one that's on all over Instagram? Yes. Tell us about that. Tell us about that. I don't want to put you on the spotlight. It's a funny story. I was just in a t-shirt store. Yeah. And I saw that shirt and it was like, love at first sight. I got to get that shirt. Guys, I know the guys are a whole lot confused. They're like, what are you talking about? So if you want to know what I'm talking about, just head over to Instagram at white of a food channel. Just look at the poster we have and on Twitter as well. Look for him. The shirt he's rocking. Just read what is written all over that shirt. That's what you're talking about. No point in telling? Yeah, no point in telling. Actually, no shed, actually. And look at on the Instagram at Straight Line Connection, right? Yeah, you'll find the same tee. Just read what you're talking about. Something about pop. Yeah, that's a hint. That's a hint. All right, so Ruben, what can you say actually inspired you to pick up the guitar? Yes. Yeah. I've been playing since I was like eight. Eight. I know. That's the kind of deep stuff I was talking about. You know, I was like, as long as he's ours too. So I started with acoustic guitar and did a bit of piano. Then afterwards, I decided to play bass. Oh, bass. Yes, yes. Right. So he grew up, he's like, I just broke my voice and I think it would be better if my instrument matches this way. I'm just like, anyway, but it's really dope. So the first song you released, your first single, Fight and Reconcile. I want to know about that. P-Mine, you want to tell us about that? Yeah, sure. Yeah. How did it come about? So basically, he's the mastermind of all the lyrics and everything. Oh, nice. The song basically revolves around this idea that, you know, we're going to always face conflict. Yeah. But at the end, we always come to a resolution. Right. You know, so why fight when you're going to reconcile? Just let things go and move forward with life. Right. There's no reason to fight. So you fight and you reconcile. And you reconcile. It's just an endless loop. So why not avoid the conflict, you know, in the story? All right. So maybe Gunn can tell us more about that since you are the one behind the lyrics. Yeah. What were you going through at that particular moment? You know, to be honest, it just comes to me. I think there's a reservoir of stuff in here. So you're one of those people that always walk around with a notebook and a pen. Not really. It's just in the head. And when I play, when I write music on the guitar or whatever, and then the lyrics just come out. So this song, it has a heavy riff. And with that riff, I was just playing it over and over. And it just came to me fight and reconcile. And then I wrote the whole song around that. And so the song starts off round and round in circles. We go, where's the elusive straight line? Right. So we're always in a, we're almost saying we're always in a circle of fight and reconcile, fight and reconcile, but there's, you know, where's the straight line? Does that happen to you guys? Like, I know some people in the band, the band's, it's like a family. Like you always fight with your little brother and sister, and then you're still family. So does that happen to you guys? Do you have like some disagreements and at the end of the day, you like sort it out? Yeah. Ruben, jealous. We have disagreements, but we don't fight. I think we've turned to a part where it's that serious. Yeah. We can disagree on different things. Right. Yeah. Afterwards, we are brothers. You hang out and just like, yeah. We try not to escalate anything. Yeah. You know, we talk it out. Cool. But we want you guys to stay together. Like, please, good music is good. We want good music to stay. So please, when you fight, just reconcile. Remember, when you're having the heated argument and you're just arguing, remember your first single. You're like, oh, we fight and reconcile. We don't do that here. We don't work out. We fight and reconcile. Yeah, exactly. You know, just to add to that, I mean, to be honest, I think we get along very well. Yeah. And in fact, that question was interesting and funny because I was trying to think, whenever we ever fought, we've actually never fought. You're like, no, country-late. That's why I gave it to Ruben. Yeah. Yeah. Okay. All right. So, how was the song received? Because we played it. Actually, we featured you guys on Play to Trash It. Yes. Okay. Yes. The segment you just had. All right. Yeah. We featured you when the song was very fresh, we featured you on that. And you came in second. You didn't get the first place, but yeah, you stayed. We'll take it. You stayed. Yeah, you'll be new. People are always scared of the new guys. They're like, oh, who are they? Let's see how they're going to do. But how's the reception been? How have people taken the song, the fans, the reception on social media, even where you've performed? How was the reception? I think, you know, it's amazing. Yeah. You know, we've been received very well as a band and as a song. And whenever we play the song, song live, we always have that kind of energy coming from the fans. Yeah. Our last show at Cricut Q was like, I just saw like so many people. So many people. And they were moshing. Moshing. Yeah. Yeah. But how does that make you feel? Seeing people jamming and just moshing to your song and you're like, oh, and it's live. Yeah. That's what it's about for me anyway. That when I see the fans giving back to us, that's what it's about. Yeah. And you feel like putting more into it. Yeah. You guys, you know, they give you the energy to keep going. To keep playing. Even when like you're playing the guitar, like for you, like your fingers can't take it anymore. But you look at them and you're like, no, we can't stop now. Yeah. They never get to that. Like your fingers are like, maybe you hurt yourself and you have to keep playing just cause the fans are liking it or something. It's not happened to me on stage, but I've had like an accident whereby I cut my finger then I have to, I have to not play with these fingers and I can't play with these. Oh. That's awful. Yes. But not on stage. But not on stage. Well, it's going to happen but you have to keep going. No, not that I wish that for them to happen. It happens, it's wrong. It's wrong music. We like that. We like that. And so, what can you say have been your influences in the industry? For me personally, it's been, I'm a big fan of Tool. Oh. A big, big fan of Tool. Rage Against the Machine. Yeah. And then we have Metallica, Megadeth, Lamborghini. Yeah, Metallica obviously. Rage Against the Machine has a Kenyan in it, yeah? Yes, I know Tom Morello. Oh. He's doing it. He's called Kimani also. No way. Yeah. Tom Morello Kimani. I don't know. He's our president's cousin. Seriously. He's one of his favorites, actually. I was reading it and I got a chance to talk to somebody who's worked with him. That is Eric, Eric Wenaina. Yeah. And then I was like, yeah, somebody, they've done a tour with him sometime back in 2004. And it was big for Eric. Oh, yeah. So I like it when I hear some guys like such people. Yeah. We should try and get him back to you. I'm working on that. Trust me. I'm really working on that. Yeah. He's a really cool guy and he's really supportive. So, po-le-po-le. Yeah. Those are my influences and then I've been a part of my life. Yeah. I mean, for me, I've grown up on classic rock because my dad, I mean, he was, he used to be in a band in his school and college days. So for me, it's been mostly like Pink Floyd, Led Zeppelin, I like Pink Floyd. And we have a fan of the show who's like crazy about it. Yeah. That's a fan. I love Ruben. Yeah. For me, I like it smooth. Yeah. I listen to like Radiohead. Ah. Okay. Kind of something like that. I know, right? Yeah. But let's talk. We want to know about your rehearsals. What are your rehearsals like and how many times a week do you guys get to rehearse? We try and do it once a week. Once a week. The good thing is like, you know, we keep time as much as possible. Yeah. A lot of metal hasn't rolled the show up later. I know. That's true. In fact, one of my friends in rehearsal and he's like, and he also plays the guitar and he's like, dude, you guys are the like first metal band and I know that always keeps time. Yeah. Okay. As a new keep time. But you never talk about that topic because that's cool. That's cool. No one gets a straighter. It's always a straighter one of these things. It's a straight line. You don't get laid. You don't get laid. We have to work it. Yeah. That discipline needs to be there. Yeah. That discipline needs to be there. Yeah. That's a requirement for any band. I hope bands are listening to such stuff. They have to. They have to. You know, as long as you all meet, you can do whatever you want during the practice. As long as you're there, just show up. You know, if you're not feeling that energetic, just show up. Show up. Play what you can. You know, it's helpful. We'll take care of the rest. All right. Oh, this is an easy day. It's a hard day. Last week, I was so pissed off. First off, I knew that. I was so pissed off. I was so mad. I was so mad. I was so mad. I was so mad. I was so mad. I was so mad. I was so mad. So mad. I was so mad. I was so mad. I was mad. We know some enemies, some blues do that. But in his defense, he was not feeling well, so yeah. All right, so I want you guys to tell us what you think you guys are. What's the direction you want your music to take, like how do you want to shape your career in this, since you're just getting started, where do you guys, what direction you guys want to take? You know, I think that's, Yeah, we're all about that. Yes, please. We're going to work on our second one. Hopefully we can release it next year. And then we want to also try and build up the rock scene, like you were saying. I think the whole thing is the people out there who want to listen to rock and metal, they don't know where to go. So we're doing a monthly rock-down show. Yes, I saw that. But it's not going to be just us. I'm one of the organizers, but it's not just going to be us. We want to get everyone a chance. And all the bands that we've spoken to are on board. Oh, awesome. So that's another thing. I think once we grow the rock scene here, I think we have a major opportunity to have Nairobi become a hub. Right, that's true. And I saw that you have a show coming up on the second, and you have a show coming up on the ninth. That's kind of all. We are just playing on the second. Feb 9th? No, that's not us. We're going to be probably playing with Rash in April or May or so. Oh, dope. So tell us about the one that is coming up on the second of February. Tell us about that. It's going to be Mayhem. It's going to be Beastly. Yes, Beastly. I hope the guys at home can actually hear. You actually can see this. If you want to know how to get the tickets, please follow them at Straight Line Connection. They have all their posters and everything you need to know about their performance. Where you can purchase this ticket, where the event is going to be. Just head over there. Straight Line Connection, right? Absolutely. And on Twitter, at Straight Line Corn. Because I remember, before I got that one, it took me a minute to get them on Twitter. So on Twitter, it's not connection. It's actually Straight Line Corn. Make sure you interact with them. They can DM you, right? Absolutely. And the merchandise, we are rocking, the t-shirts, and all about that. Tell the guys, where can they find them? Yeah, I mean, just follow us on Twitter, Straight Line Corn, Instagram and Facebook, Straight Line Connection and just DM us and we'll take it from there. Thousand Boba Shirt. Right. And yes, it's a really good price for now. We just want to promote, you know, really, that's it. And they come in three colors. Black, olive green and red. Yeah, can they get custom made? Like, if I want another color, can I get, can it be custom made? At this point, I don't think so. Oh, okay. At this point, I don't think so, but maybe in the future, we'll look at different colors. Maybe in the future. Oh, cool. But we still like it. This is like green. We have orange. We have black. Yeah. Yeah, I love the colors. No reason to complain. All right, so you guys have our, because my producer is telling me, like, we're almost out of time. So we just need to know about the single, the single you just released. Tell us about that before we take a break because we'll be taking a break soon. Sure, it's called Text Walking. It's again about, like, we write about philosophical stuff a lot. So Fighting Reconcile was one of them. Text Walking is another one. But we also write about personal stuff as well. But so Text Walking is about, you know, how we are just walking through a life, literally and figuratively. Yeah, that makes sense. We also, like, in our minds, there's so much choice around us and all those kind of things. So we don't know which way we're going. So Text Walking is like, you know how you're on your phone and you can't see where your head is. You're glued right on your phone. You don't see what's around you. You know, there's so much more around you. Yeah, you don't get to see. You don't get to experience all that. Because your focus is on one thing. Your focus is on one thing, yeah. Oh, all right. And it's also to prove that we're against Text Walking. Yeah, I don't know. Personally, I don't like it. Put your phone away. Yeah, why? Plug in your earphones. Listen to something. Yeah. Don't be... Look around and smell the roses. Yeah, yeah. Yeah, yeah. All the coffee. Yes. All right. So we want to... One thing. What should people expect from you moving forward and then we'll be taking a short break. But before that, what should your fans expect from you and just a quick reminder of your social media handles and then we take that break? Yeah, I mean, for us, just expect us to be here for a while. And we're going to be... We're going to keep on... Yes, please. Please stay. We welcome you to stay. We're going to be doing, like, even acoustic sets where we're going to be doing even acoustic sets. We're going to be working very hard this year. Yeah. So, yeah. And again, our Twitter and Facebook is straight-line connection. And then... Sorry, Twitter is straight-line con. Instagram and Facebook are straight-line connections. Straight-line connection. Awesome. That's amazing. We absolutely love that. And we love you guys for coming through in the studio. We did this. Thank you so much for coming. And we want you... Next time you're coming, you have to play for us. Like, bring all the instruments and everything. Yes? Can you please do that for us? Definitely. Can you show up and just hang out with you guys? Yes. Always. Even next week. Do that. Do that. Yeah. You're more than welcome to do that. Anytime you feel like you want to come through, do come through. We can even host together. You can even detail if you know how to. Cool, right? Yeah. All right. So, thank you so much, guys. And the guys at home, please stay with us. We'll be right back after this short break. We'll stay here. Keep it white if you're for channel. We'll have more for you.