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	News ::: August 2007 ::: LATEST: Former bassist Louis (formerly Fabienne) wants to sue us for the right to use the name Raxola. Therefore, we wanna thanks our billions fans who have made that name so famous, as to become a so valuable case to fight for! No question Roger Waters and David Gilmour should take advice! Cheerfully grateful, Raxola, the Band. ::: July 2007 ::: A new vinyl version of our 1978 "Raxola" album soon to be released in the USA by Radio Heartbeat. Check their website for news. "Live in 0'Five", our live mini album, is for sale on the usual sites: Diskunion (Japan) and Goner Records (USA). Get it now! ::: February 2007 ::: Before to release the new album, here comes a live album of 6 songs, recorded during summer 2005, while touring in England and Belgium. « Live in O’Five » contains a mix of old and new songs and marks Raxola’s move from primitive punk to our current trend. Available as from February 15 by Diskunion (Japan), Goner Records (USA) and on this website. ::: December 2006 ::: We finished the recordings for our new album. 9 songs ready to be released. We are now busy with the artwork. Well, we are very happy with the result and some of our new songs open unexpected ways for the future. On the last minute we added a cover of Billy Bragg’s « Between the wars ». ::: November 2006 ::: Hadri and Dave are fuckin' messin' with their side band Spleen Sisters and have missed the last recordings. Never mind, they have been replaced by Philemon Noirret and Alain Goutier for the sessions, with Fabrizio Manzini's adding some guitars. Quite good stuff out of these days. ::: March 2006 ::: Good news for our US friends : our records are now available into the States thanks to Goner Records, in Memphis (Tennessee). Sounds posh as poshible. Click this link to know more: http://www.raxola.net/EN/discography.html Meanwhile, we are recording new songs at DeStudio in Belgium. Some will say this is no more punk rock; we don¹t care. We play music and our spirit remains the same. We added some more recent demos to download on our website; this is rough material recorded into live conditions, just for collectors. http://www.raxola.net/EN/download_live.html ::: January 2006 ::: Good news : our « historic » album is distributed into the USA by Goner Records. Please check our discography page to know more : http://www.raxola.net/EN/discography.html. We launched a « marketing » action to find strong partnerships for our next future : a label for the album, a booking agency and may be a management agent. We selected some 35 « target contacts ». Don’t hesitate to get in touch with us shoud we have forget… you ! (You’ll know shortly if you’re into the list.) ::: December 2005 ::: Raxola has recorded studio material into « Déstudio » (Asse, Belgium). « Son of a Bitch » and « The Idiot Song » has been written by Yke very recently and set some trends for the album we plan to release next september. At this occasion we pushed Dave ahead as lead singer. The result sounds good an it may lead to a new evolution within the band’s future. It opens ways to improve the backing vocals work, also giving Yke more comfort to play guitar and allowing Dave to express his hunger to be a showman. If we go on this way a new member would take over Dave’s drummer’s seat very soon. ::: November 2005 ::: We made sessions at Studio Z in Brussels into « live » conditions. The aim was to capture the feeling of the hard work we did since the new lineup has been set. Some of the new tracks are not exactly what punk fundamentalists wait for. But to tell the truth we just wanna play the music we like, not to be stored into categories which would limit our creative freedom. Songs such as « Paranoïzed », « The Idiot Song » and « Back on Wild » are much representative of that trend. ::: September 2005 ::: Well we’re back from England where we have played our first UK gigs ever. For us it was an unique chance to have confrontation with local scene bands. No doubt now that we can make it there. Plans to record our 2005 work had to be cancelled coz Dave has to move for a while. Sessions are now set for november and december.