NEWS ARCHIVE 4

December 21st 2004

Roxy's interview with The Headbangers Basement is now up, see the details on the 12-19-04 playlist.
And listen to it here, segment 4 or the focus on Roxy Petrucci for the individual interview parts. It will be online for about 3 weeks.

Dec 23rd : from the interview - there will be 9 tracks on the Titania CD, including an instrumental showcase for Maxine. In addition to Billy Sheehan appearing as guest on the title track, there will be 2 songs, 'Squeeked' and 'Dirty Thang', featuring the bassist from the Tangerine album, Mike Pisculli. And Roxy says a reunion of her, Janet & Jan on a limited basis is possible, were a high profile gig to come up.

December 14th 2004

A couple of video clips from the Bands Reunited rehearsals can now be seen at Roxy's site.
Also, Bubble gig tonight 11.00 pm at the Key Club, Sunset Blvd!

December 5th 2004

Some pics from the Bands Reunited show are now up on Roxy's site. See here.

December 3rd 2004

The track 'Titania' can be heard at The Headbangers Basement. It's on the November 28th playlist, segment 2, here.

Bubble and Share news : a review of Rock N Roll Hell and a new promo pic are up at Bubble's site.
And Share is going to be TotalRock.com's press correspondent for the Motley Crue press conference and live performance on Monday Dec 6th! See here.

November 27th 2004

Vixen will play at the Sweden Rock Festival 2005 which runs from June 9-11. See here for the list of confirmed bands. More live dates for Vixen next year to follow ....

November 24th 2004

Lyrics and a sample of another new Vixen track, I Try, are now available on the official Vixen website.

November 21st 2004

Titania
Check out The Vault with DJ Will on KNAC.com to hear Titania today! The show starts at 10am PST. Addresses to email for comments : DJWill@KNAC.com and titania@sbcglobal.net
Sorry this is such short notice!

November 15th 2004

A sample of a new Vixen track, Little Voice, is available now on the Vixen website. The online store is also now open.

A live video of a brand new Bubble song, for now entitled "What I Want", can be viewed at slow or fast connection speeds. Bubble also have a couple of gigs coming up in LA on November 17th and December 18th, see here for details.

Here are some captures from the VH1 show. Thanks to Bruce for making them and Ilknur for sending them to me :

November 11th 2004

Vixen's VH1 Bands Reunited show has now aired. If you're not in the US and can't get to see the show yet, at least you can view a photo gallery and an exclusive live video of How Much Love (not shown on the show) here.
For an interesting post by Share on "The Truth About VH1" see her blog.

November 9th 2004

Jan is now the 3rd member of Vixen to do Metal Sludge's 20 Questions!
From the interview : "we have new management, and we're currently writing and recording a new record, and plan on hitting the road next spring/summer - 2005!"

October 28th 2004

A clip of the title track of Roxy and Maxine's forthcoming Titania album featuring Billy Sheehan is now up on Roxy's site. Check it out here.
They are now mixing the record, for a release date sometime in 2005.

October 18th 2004

The first air date for the Vixen Bands Reunited show on VH1 is released : Tuesday November 9th. See details of the show here.
This is obviously in the US, I'll post the date for the UK/Europe as soon as I know.

October 16th 2004

EMI ANNOUNCE VIXEN RE-ISSUES:
Press Release:
Hollywood, CA ­ October 5 (?), 2004 -- The hard-rocking female glam metal band Vixen roughed LA's club circuit throughout most of the 1980s before signing with EMI Music in 1987. Known as 'the female Bon Jovi', Vixen enjoyed national exposure with the 1988 release of their self-titled debut album and MTV's embrace of the band's first mega-hit, Edge Of A Broken Heart. The band's long out-of-print EMI albums, Vixen and Rev It Up, are set for reissue by EMI Music Catalog Marketing on November 2. The two albums have been fully remastered and will be in stores in time for the reunion of all of Vixen's original members on VH1's popular show, "Bands Reunited."
Vixen's self-titled debut was released in 1988, and fueled by heavy radio and MTV rotation of the single, Edge Of A Broken Heart, the album surpassed the Gold sales mark in the U.S. and went on to sell over one million copies around the world. Vixen's follow-up album, Rev It Up was released in 1990, and the singles How Much Love and Love Is A Killer spent some time on Billboard's Hot 100 Chart.
Next month, Vixen's original members, Janet Gardner (vocals), Jan Kuehnemund (guitar), Share Pedersen (bass) and Roxy Petrucci (drums) will all appear together on VH1's "Bands Reunited" to reminisce about their start on LA's Sunset Strip and their rise to fame in the late 1980s, before the onset of grunge in the early 1990s displaced metal at the top of the charts.

September 16th 2004

From Roxy's page :
Roxy and Maxine are thrilled to announce the special guest appearance of Billy Sheehan on their title track Titania. "He should be arrested for possessing so much talent...I'll supply the handcuffs"... Roxy

September 14th 2004

A news flash on the official Vixen page says EMI Records is re-releasing the 1st 2 Vixen records! The tentative release date for both records, Vixen and Rev It Up, is November 2, 2004. More info here. It's great that they'll finally be in print, it's been much too long!

August 29th 2004

There is a recent live photo of Share now on her knitting blog. Officially this comes from the current issue of Entertainment Weekly, not from the Vixen reunion show ;-)

August 27th 2004

More on Titania :
Roxy & Maxine were in Detroit last week to record more tracks for the Titania CD. The recording went great and they got a lot accomplished. Roxy says "It's sounding pretty amazing. We had a lot of studio switching and song rearranging but it's now turning out to be a kickass CD that'll blow some minds, especially Maxine's crazy guitar playing."

August 23rd 2004

A short report on the reunion show :
As the show was for the VH1 bands reunited programme it was a very short setlist!

Rev It Up
How Much Love
Not a Minute Too Soon
Cryin'
Edge of a Broken Heart

and then they did a 2nd take of How Much Love, Cryin' and Edge. SIR studios was a very good venue, excellent sound and atmosphere. The girls all sounded and looked fantastic, especially considering they only had a couple of days rehearsal. I didn't get any photos during the concert but here are a few of the instruments (not all the ones they actually played) I took afterwards.

And one from after the show of me and Andy (who came from Germany) with the band. It was great to meet them ;-)

The programme should be airing around October time. For more detailed reports see the VixenWorld yahoogroup.

A round up of other news :
There is a small amount of content (photos & guestbook) now at the official Vixen website.
The Drawing Down the Moon CD, "Angel In My Dream", is now available at http://www.cdbaby.com/ddtm
Roxy & Maxine are recording more tracks for the Titania project, which will now be a full length CD.
The new Bubble album, Rock n Roll Hell, has been released, and is currently on sale for $10 plus shipping. And the 1st two Bubble albums are available at iTunes, either song by song or the whole album.

July 28th 2004

Vixen are reuniting for a one-off show as part of VH-1's Bands Reunited series!
The show will take place on August 3rd in Los Angeles, full details here.

And the new Bubble album, Rock n Roll Hell, should be available from their website around Aug 4 to tie in with that. Good timing for promotion!

July 24th 2004

I've finally got hold of the August 2004 issue of Guitar One magazine which has a "now & then" feature on Jan. The article follows. Many thanks to Pharaoh for the mag!

June 2nd 2004

Here is the piece by Roxy in the June 2004 issue of Modern Drummer :

An official Vixen website is live at www.vixenrock.com, though there's hardly anything there as yet ...
Also, Jan's other band Drawing Down The Moon have a CD on the way, see www.drawingdownthemoon.net/news.htm for more info.

Maxine's site has some cool photos of her from Madam X here.

I should also give a plug to Eva's Metal Queens page, lots of great artists including Vixen of course! It includes a few photos of Vixen even I hadn't seen before, and an extensive video captures section.

May 2nd 2004

Tracklisting of the new Bubble album ROCK N ROLL HELL :

See the Bubble website for more information, sound clips and a puzzle!

There is a piece written by Roxy in the readers platform in the June 2004 issue of Modern Drummer, out now in the US, though not yet in Europe ....

April 20th 2004

Metal Sludge's 20 Questions with Share are now up.
And the new Bubble album is mixed, to be mastered soon, so it should only be a matter of weeks before it's released.

March 30th 2004

Check out an update to Roxy's page. Several things added including a couple of videos - Edge of a Broken Heart live from the MTV Spring Break show & footage from the Madam X 1991 reunion - and rare Madam X & Hell's Belles pictures.

March 31st : I had to add that there's even more photos now up on Roxy's page - check Vixen, Vixen with Rana, Roxy's pets and especially the Roxy scrapbook ;-)

March 9th 2004

Roxy now has her own website up & running at www.roxypetrucci.com
Check it out for current news, biography, discography, drumkit setup, pics including some previously unseen recent ones, a video clip and more to come .....

February 25th 2004

Metal Sludge 20 Questions with Roxy Petrucci is now up!
Some cool answers! Seeing as she mentions it there, I guess I can say something about the V3 project. This will be a CD to be released in Europe featuring Janet, Roxy & Gina and will be recordings from the Tangerine period. And the Titania project with Maxine is still progressing .... Maxine has a website, www.maxattacks.com , but nothing there yet ....

February 23rd 2004

From planetbubble.com :
The 3rd Bubble album is done but will be remixed to give the best sounding CD possible. Tentative release date April 20th. It looks to be called "Rock n Roll Hell" ....
Also, you can get an autographed Share trading card here! : www.timem.com

Feb 25th - tentative album cover :