MURFY'S FLAW IS A KENYAN BAND FORMED A FEW YEARS AGO AND ARE WIDELY LOVE BY KENYAN ROCK FANS...THEY DO ALTERNATIVE.
THE 5 (FLY!)WOMAN + 1 (HOT!)MAN BAND WHO MET IN UNIVERSITY OF NAIROBI HAVE REMAINED RELEVANT IN THE CRAZY KENYAN MUSIC INDUSTRY WHICH IS YET TO FULLY EMBRACE THE ROCK MUSIC LEAVE ALONE KENYAN ROCK MUSIC AND IN THEIR WAKE MADE QUITE A NUMBER OF FANS....THEY USUALLY PERFORM IN AN ANNUAL GIG CALLED ROCKTOBER FEST, AND MONTHLY GIG CALLED BATTLE OF THE BANDS WHERE KENYAN BANDS MEET TO COMPETE.
THE BAND MEMBERS INCLUDE:
REEMA DOSHI(LEAD SINGER/PLAYS TAMBOURINE)
NUMBER 9 (GUITAR/VOCALS)=>DUDE
PUNKY MONKEY (GUITAR)
JOZZIE BOO (BASS)
JOANNA HOFF (KEYBOARDS)
VICKY KARUGA (DRUMS)
THE BAND MEMBERS COME FROM DIVERSE HERITAGE...ASIAN, KENYAN AND EUROPE AND THUS MAKE THEIR MUSIC QUITE INTERESTING...THEY DO SONGS BOTH IN KISWAHILI AND ENGLISH AND ARE QUITE AMAZING...AMONG THEIR HITS BEING "MAKOSA"(WRONG), AND CONTAGIOUS...
THEY RECENTLY LAUNCHED THEIR ALBUM "MAKOSA" (NOV 2008)WHICH WAS WELL RECEIVED BY THEIR FANS BUT ARE YET TO DO ANY VIDEOS DUE TO FINANCIAL CONSTRAINTS. HERE IS ABIT ON THEIR ALBUM LAUNCH IN WHICH THEY WERE SUPPORTED BY M20 (music to overdrive), SEISMIC AND UETA..ALL KENYAN BANDS TOO:
THEY ALSO DO COVERS OF VARIOUS FAMOUS BANDS IN THEIR SHOWS...HERE THEY ARE DOING CRANBERRIES-ZOMBIE:
HERE IS ALSO ANOTHER OF THEIR PERFORMANCE AT BATTLE OF THE BANDS:
PERSONALLY, I LOVE THEM AND THINK THEY HAVE GREAT POTENTIAL...
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