Les Horribles CERNettes: The One and Only High Energy Rock Band

September 10, 2008 by Libby  Send to a Friend

Meet Les Horribles Cernettes!

These chanteuses are sexy, smart, and are directly responsible for our imminent doom.

It’s embarrassing to have never heard of them since they were the first rock and roll band on to have a web page and photo on the internet. After all, the world wide web was created at CERN back in 1989 and in ‘92 the Cernettes were all up on the nets.

First band photo on the internet:

The band was founded by a Michele de Gennaro, a graphic designer at CERN, who was pissed that her physicist boyfriend was spending too much time working on his collider. To attract his attention she rounded up some ladies from the scientific campus and started Les Horribles Cernettes in 1990, LHC for short. The band made their debut at 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 prefer your collider
You only love your collider
Your collider

The video for collider, shot inside the actual collider:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A1L2xODZSI4

The original band lineup:

The Cernettes staged a comeback at last year’s Hardronic festival. (Read about it in the Compact Muon Solenoid Times). The last standing Cernettes are Michele de Gennaro, Anne MacNabb and Vicky Corlass.

You can listen to songs are available for free on their website.

Titles include

• Liquid Nitrogen
• Daddy’s Lab
• My Sweetheart is a Nobel Prize
• Surfing on the Web
• Antiworld
• Collider
• Strong Interaction
• Computer Games
• Microwave Love

Hopefully they will perform once again before the black hole they helped create eats our known world.

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