Cernettes sing about their men stuck on night shifts at CERN
The first band ever to have its picture featured on the world wide web was Les Horribles Cernettes, a ’60s band created to entertain the physicists at the CERN in Geneva. They were created back when the web came into being at the CERN. The band’s original mission was to sign about the woes of waiting for boyfriends stuck all night at the lab. WRS’s Pete Forster talks to members of the band, Angela Higney and Silvano de Gennaro about the history of the band and the music: