Greek rock's most commercially successful band, Pyx Lax returned to Camden's Electric Ballroom for a sold-out night thirty-seven years into their career.
Pyx Lax returned to London on Wednesday 4 February 2026 for a sold-out night at Camden’s Electric Ballroom, thirty-seven years into a career that reshaped Greek rock.
Filippos Pliatsikas, Babis Stokas, Sakis Stamoulis and Panayiotis Spyropoulos formed the band in Athens in 1989, taking its name, Greek for punching and kicking, from a theatre production running in the city that year. Their demo reached Minos EMI’s Manos Xydous, who liked it enough to join the band himself; two of the founding four soon left, leaving Pliatsikas, Stokas and Xydous as the trio until his death in 2010. The catalogue that followed, including Asti Na Lei in 1993 and Monaxia Mou Ola, recorded in Oxford, gave Greek rock a run of entehno-rock standards through the 1990s.
Before dissolving in 2004, Pyx Lax became the most commercially successful group in Greek discography, carrying three gold and five platinum albums. In 1999 they recorded Let the Picture Do the Talking with Sting and the Corsican group I Muvrini, one of the catalogue’s rare English-language recordings. They reunited for a tour honouring Xydous in 2011, then permanently in 2018.
The Electric Ballroom began as an Irish dance hall in the 1930s and took its current name in 1978, a 1,500-capacity room across two dance floors on Camden High Street. Pyx Lax filled it for a night that sold out ahead of the date.