It took nearly 10 years for musicians Sukkawit “Beer” Tengyam (vocal), Waipop “Bee” Tengyam (drums), Chalermrat “Nueng” Prueksachantana (guitar), Wasathorn “Test” Geiger (bass) and Warut “Win” Onaunjit (keyboard) to form RUN RAN RUN, whose first single reached the top ten of the Fat Radio Charts. As they release their second song, they talk about their epic journey and why they quit GMM.

BK: How do you get together?
Beer:
Some of the members plus our friends from high school entered the Hot Wave music competition back in 2003. We got as far as the last ten but nothing happened, so we separated to study at university. My brother—Bee, fellow member Nueng and I went to study at Silpakorn University where were formed another band that was signed by GMM. But we never had the chance to release an album.

BK: What happened?
Beer:
Lots of things. Our record label was closed down and we were transferred to another label. But the ultimate reason was we felt that our music, when produced by other producers, didn’t reflect us so we quit GMM. We continued to work the way we wanted, as an indie group until we met Mono Music. They agreed to let us work the way we want.

BK: Why choose Run Ran Run to be your name?
Beer:
It reflects our passion for music as we used to run and now we’re running and we will continue to run on the music road forever.
BK: Have you ever consider quitting the music scene?
Beer:
We did. We had fights and things didn’t go as we expected. But we’ve been friends for so long we finally patched things up. Then we released our first single and it got a huge response. Now we’re releasing our new single, “Ya Se.”

BK: If you could run anywhere, where would you run?
Beer:
I want to run to the future. I am curious to see if I am going to be thinking the same way at 50 as I do now?
Nueng: I want to run beneath the waves. I always heard that we know more about the universe than we do about what’s in our oceans. I want to run in there to see what it looks like.
Bee: I want to run on a real running track. I’ve never run on one before. It would be a great feeling.

BK: What are you day jobs?
Beer:
I’m a freelance producer. I compose songs a
nd play music at night. We play at Wink (Ratchayothin Road) every Saturday.
Bee: I’m a drum teacher but I only teach privately.Win: I work at an event organizer. We do everything from events to creating jingles for commercials.
Test: I work at The War Veterans Organization of Thailand by day and play music by night.
Nueng: I’m a music tutor at MAESTRO for students who aspire to get into music faculties at universities. I’m also a freelance producer. I once produced a song for a kindergarten. It’s a cute song for children to sing in the morning.

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