Les Horribles Cernettes
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Les Horribles Cernettes (French pronunciation: [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", which was founded by employees of CERN and performed at CERN and other HEP-related events. Their main claim to fame is that a photograph of them was the earliest photographic image shared on the World Wide Web. 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.
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Genres
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Years active
1990–2012, 2017, 2020
Past members
Angela Higney Michele de Gennaro Colette Marx-Neilsen Lynn Veronneau
Website
https://cernettes.wixsite.com/cernettes
Tables
· Discography › Music videos
1992
1992
Year
1992
Song
"Collider"
Album
Collider
1996
1996
Year
1996
Song
"Surfing on the Web"
2020
2020
Year
2020
Song
"The Lockdown Song"
Album
Non-album single
| Year | Song | Album |
| 1992 | "Collider" | Collider |
| 1996 | "Surfing on the Web" | |
| 2020 | "The Lockdown Song" | Non-album single |
References
- "Crossdressing, Compression and Colliders: The First Photo on the Web"https://www.vice.com/en/article/crossdressing-compression-and-colliders-the-first-photo-on-the-web/
- CERN Courierhttps://web.archive.org/web/20101112054311/http://cerncourier.com/cws/article/cern/27907
- The New York Timeshttp://musiclub.web.cern.ch/MusiClub/bands/cernettes/Press/NYT.pdf
- Wiredhttp://archive.wired.com/culture/lifestyle/news/1999/02/17821
- "CERN Hardronic Festival"https://web.archive.org/web/20130607095615/http://musiclub.web.cern.ch/MusiClub/hardronic/hardronic2012/hardronic.html
- "The Cernettes Music"https://cernettes.wixsite.com/cernettes/music
- Press Info: Press Features Les Horribles Cernetteshttp://musiclub.web.cern.ch/MusiClub/bands/cernettes/press_info.html
- A Real Smash Hit!http://www.thenational.ae/thenationalconversation/editorial/a-real-smash-hit
- This is it! Les Horribles Cernetteshttp://musiclub.web.cern.ch/MusiClub/bands/cernettes/goodbye.html
- cernettes.wixsite.comhttps://cernettes.wixsite.com/cernettes/discography
- "Was this the 1st photo on the web? 25 years on, Quebec woman tells how she came to be in it" from CBC (July 15, 2017)http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/montreal/first-internet-photo-features-sherbrooke-woman-1.4206913
- "New Lockdown Song by Cernettes Lifts Your Spirit"https://indiasemedia.com/2020/05/19/new-lockdown-song-by-cernettes-lifts-your-spirit/
- "Programme – CERN70 Community Event"https://community-event.web.cern.ch/programme/#bands
- CERN MusiClubhttp://musiclub.web.cern.ch/MusiClub/bands/cernettes/firstband.html
- Motherboardhttps://web.archive.org/web/20121205020416/http://motherboard.vice.com/blog/crossdressing-compression-and-colliders-the-first-photo-on-the-web
- "Disclaimer"https://web.archive.org/web/20120804062915/http://musiclub.web.cern.ch/MusiClub/bands/cernettes/disclaimer.html
- "LHC: The First Band on the Web"https://musiclub.web.cern.ch/bands/cernettes/firstband.html
- How the first photo was posted on the Web 20 years ago, Andrew Hough, The Telegraph, 11 July 2012https://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/news/9391110/How-the-first-photo-was-posted-on-the-Web-20-years-ago.html