Active until 2012 Albums Collider | Active from 1990 | |
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Members Michele de Gennaro, Angela Higney, Lynn Veronneau, Anne MacNabb, Colette Reilly, Vicky Corlass Similar Katherine McAlpine, The Advantage, Devo 20 Profiles | ||
Les dieux de l informatique les horribles cernettes premi re image post e sur internet
Les Horribles Cernettes ([le.z‿ɔʁiblə sɛʁnɛt], "The Horrible CERN Girls") was an all-female parody pop group, self-labelled "the one and only High Energy Rock Band", founded by employees of CERN which performed at CERN and other HEP related events. Their musical style is often described as doo-wop. The initials of their name, LHC, are the same as those of the Large Hadron Collider which was later built at CERN. Their humorous songs are freely available on their website.
Contents
- Les dieux de l informatique les horribles cernettes premi re image post e sur internet
- Venus les horribles cernettes at hardronic 2012
- History
- Titles
- Songs
- References
The band is also known for a photograph of themselves that became the first-ever photographic image posted on the web.
Venus les horribles cernettes at hardronic 2012
History
Les Horribles Cernettes was founded in 1990 by Michele de Gennaro, a graphic designer at CERN, whose romantic relationship with a physicist was made difficult by his numerous shifts. She attracted attention by stepping on stage during the CERN Hardronic Festival, singing "Collider", a melancholy song about the lonely nights endured by the girlfriend of a high energy physicist (excerpt):
I gave you a golden ring to show you my love
You went to stick it in a printed circuit
To fix a voltage leak in your collector
You plug my feelings into your detector
You never spend your nights with me
You don't go out with other girls either
You only love your collider
Your collider.
The group was subsequently formed with the help of Silvano de Gennaro, an analyst in the Computer Science department at CERN, who wrote additional songs. The fame of Les Horribles Cernettes grew and they were invited to international Physics conferences and The World'92 Expo in Seville, as well as celebrations such as Georges Charpak's Nobel Prize party. They received press coverage from numerous newspapers, including The New York Times, The Herald Tribune, La Tribune de Genève, and the CERN Courier. The band's lineup has changed over time, but they were performing under the same name until 21 July 2012, when the band had its final performance, which was at CERN's Hardronic Festival in Switzerland.
Les Cernettes were the subject of the first photo on the Web:
"Back in 1992, after their show at the CERN Hardronic Festival, my colleague Tim Berners-Lee asked me for a few scanned photos of "the CERN girls" to publish them on some sort of information system he had just invented, called the "World Wide Web". I had only a vague idea of what that was, but I scanned some photos on my Mac and FTPed them to Tim's now famous "info.cern.ch". How was I to know that I was passing a historical milestone, as the one above was the first picture of a band ever to be clicked on in a web browser!"
Silvano had taken the picture above on July 18, 1992.
The band went into hiatus when Silvano and Michele moved away from the CERN area and officially disbanded in late July 2012, after performing at the CERN Hardronic Festival on the 21st. However, Lynn Veronneau has since embarked upon a serious solo career, recording French language versions of popular standards.
Titles
See links for lyrics and media:
New 2007 songs presented for the first time in the CERN 2007 Hardronic festival:
Songs
Antiworld
Microwave Love
Surfing on the Web