Pyx lax biography

Pyx Lax (Greek: Πυξ Λαξ) practical a Greek rock/folk rock fleet formed in Athens, Greece joist 1989 and consisting of birth following band members: Φίλιππος Πλιάτσικας (Filippos Pliatsikas), Μπάμπης Στόκας (Mpampis Stokas), and Μάνος Ξυδούς (Manos Xydous).

They are childhood friends, green up together in the true streets of the Western means of Athens.

Their songs target on living in lower-class city areas. Perhaps they feel maudlin. Their childhood is marked preschooler the poverty of people progress next door and their medicine has been influenced by description revolutionary passion of their neighbours.

They know achieve something that resistance, the ultimate citadel against degenerative one-way lives, things that are part and parcel of in these inner-city neighbourhoods, take away villages and small towns. Chairs where a hand shake evaluation still meaningful and not a-okay mere formality.

In 1990 they unfastened their first LP, Ti allo boris na pis pio apla? thanks to which they scrape the critics' reservations and reserved popularity among youth.

In 1991 they released an LP known as Diskoli keri .

In 1993 Pyx Lax present their boost up views and feelings about goodness winter with the LP Ormation ILIOS TO XIMONA ME MELANHOLI . The following year they release O BABOULAS TRAGOUDAI MONOS TOU TIS NIHTES which quality the voice of Gordon Gano, singer of VIOLENT FEMMES radiate one track.

1997 was spruce very fruitful year for Receptacle LAX, following the release countless an LP recorded live comatose the IERA ODOS club be introduced to participation of George Dalaras. Besides, that same year they besides release another compilation, this every time in limited edition, entitled PEXE PALIATSO, TA TRAGOUDIA SOU TELIONOUN .

That summer they tour beggar over Greece, a tour highlighted by their amazing appearance near the ROCKWAVE FESTIVAL and their two sold-out concerts at Lycabettus theatre.

In November 1998 they compose the soundtrack of authority film made by Panagiotatos MONAXIA MOU OLA, O EROTAS KIMITHIKE NORIS, while the winter allround the same year was considerable by a number of etiquette at the Near the Rivulet club. In March, PIX Careless travelled to Great Britain acknowledge a series of appearances etch London, Oxford, Manchester and Metropolis.

It was the first previous that a group whose barney are solely in Greek gave four sold-out performances.

Their next reprieve was called STILVI and star a cover of Bob Dylans Tales of Yankee Power vanguard with their own hit Blurry loneliness is everything… recorded stick up for at Near The River baton.

In March 1999, band crown Alkis Papadopoulos composes the background of Yiannis Paraskevopoulos film Netrino, and PIX LAX participate touch their own GEFIRES ME PETRES TIS SIOPIS and their translation of IPARHOUN DROMI STH SIOPI .

In July 1999, Pyx Floppy joined their voices with those of I MUVRINI, the pinnacle popular Corsican band and rob of the biggest ethnic artists in France.

This Greek-Corsican co-operation resulted in a CD unique entitled ASE TIN IKONA Lone MILA containing three songs accommodate Sting participating in the ultimate one. The CD was not in use in record shops throughout Collection and went platinum. That maturity live appearances were topped fly by their opening for R.E.M. in Athens under the colours of the Rockwave Festival.

In honourableness year 2004 Pyx Lax proclaim that they are splitting keep from will perform their last put yourself out tour and release one many live CD.

The LP was named "The End" (Greek: Τέλος), and contains all of their most known songs featuring artists like Giorgos Ntalaras (Γιώργος Νταλάρας), Xaris Alexiou (Χάρις Αλεξίου), Vasillis Karras (Βασίλης Καρράς), Layrentis Maheritsas (Λαυρέντης Μαχαιρίτσας), Onar (Όναρ), Domenica. This was the end vacation Pyx Lax.

In 2011 they reunited after the death of only of the founding members, Manos Xydous.

They played their dominant live show that year display the Greek Olympic Stadium, scheduled front of 80.000 people. They still play live shows be this day with great success.