Les Horribles Cernettes
| Les Horribles Cernettes | |
|---|---|
| General information | |
| origin |
 Switzerland
|
| Genre (s) | pop |
| founding | 1990 |
| resolution | 2012 |
| Founding members | |
| Michele de Gennaro | |
| Last occupation | |
| Michele de Gennaro ( UK ) | |
singing |
Anne MacNabb ( USA ) |
singing |
Colette Marx-Nielsen (UK) |
| Max Kockel ( F ) | |
| Silvano de Gennaro ( I ) | |
| Harald Koch ( D ) | |
| Matt Finn (UK) | |
| former members | |
singing |
Ruth Rubio Marin ( E ) |
singing |
Angela Higney (UK) |
singing |
Louise Richmond (UK) |
singing |
Caroline Good (UK) |
singing |
Catherine Decosse (F) |
singing |
Linda Timms (UK) |
singing |
Lynn Veronneau ( CAN ) |
singing |
Angela Byrne (UK) |
singing |
Patty McBride (USA) |
singing |
Valerie Biselx ( CH ) |
singing |
Vicky Corlass (UK) |
guitar |
Django Mangkunki ( B ) |
guitar |
Laurent Grandchamps (F) |
bass |
John Messersmith (USA) |
Les Horribles Cernettes [ lezɔʁiblə sɛːʁˈnɛt ] ( French The Terrible CERN Girls ) was a parodic pop music group that calls itself the only high-energy rock band . Like the Large Hadron Collider, it has the acronym LHC.
The lyrics are about physics or the facilities at CERN and are available on the group's website.
The group had been founded in 1990 by a CERN secretary who sang about the difficulties of having a relationship with one of the physicists.
The group was provided with additional songs by Silvano de Gennaro, an analyst in the computer department at CERN. The group became known through appearances at various physicists' conferences and they also appeared at the ceremony to award the Nobel Prize to Georges Charpak .
According to Silvano de Gennaro, the pictures of the group were the very first photos on the web and the group was the first to have its own homepage .
"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 an historical milestone, as the one above was the first picture ever to be clicked on in a web browser! "
The group gave their last concert on July 21, 2012 at the so-called Cern Hardronic Festival . Five years later on July 15, 2017, the Cernettes gave another concert at the Cern Festival, which was broadcast live on YouTube.
Web links
- Website of the Cernettes
- Videos of the Cernettes on Youtube.com
- Website from info.cern.ch
- Andrew Hough: How the first photo was posted on the Web 20 years ago , report by the British newspaper The Daily Telegraph of July 11, 2012 about the publication of the first photo on the Internet, on telegraph.co.uk
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Farewell to a web icon: The last doo-wop of the terrible Cernettes . Spiegel Online , July 21, 2012
- ↑ Les Horribles Cernettes - Press info . Press material on the band's website. Retrieved July 11, 2014.
- ↑ Cernettes Comeback 2017 Live Stream - Youtube video of the live stream on the Cernettes Youtube channel (accessed July 17, 2017)
- ↑ Verity Stevenson: What this the 1st photo on the web? 25 years on, Quebec woman tells how she came to be in it . CBC News, July 15, 2017