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Les Wampas are a French punk rock/psychobilly band, who refer more exactly to their music as "Yé-yé-punk". The band was
formed in Paris in 1983. The group is best known for its frontman, real name Didier Chapedelaine, main lyricist and singer. He
deliberately sings off-key and often high-pitched, so has a recognisable voice. His on-stage energy, and crowd surfing, hoisted
and hauled up on garden chairs, are major features of the band's live shows, which frequently end up in a complete mess, Didier
Wampas singing among the audience, and a large part of the audience going onto the stag ...read more
Les Wampas are a French punk rock/psychobilly band, who refer more exactly to their music as "Yé-yé-punk". The band was
formed in Paris in 1983. The group is best known for its frontman, real name Didier Chapedelaine, main lyricist and singer. He
deliberately sings off-key and often high-pitched, so has a recognisable voice. His on-stage energy, and crowd surfing, hoisted
and hauled up on garden chairs, are major features of the band's live shows, which frequently end up in a complete mess, Didier
Wampas singing among the audience, and a large part of the audience going onto the stage. Since the release of the album Kiss
(2000), he comes to hug members of the audience at the end of the show and kiss them goodbye on each cheek.
In interviews, Didier Wampas often repeats that he earns approximately a quarter of his private incomes from his activity as a
singer, and the rest from his job as a mechanic at the RATP (public transportation service in Paris), which he kept in spite of the
increasing fame and success of the band. He frequently asserts his opposition to the French system of giving grants to
professionals in the performing arts — this attitude is remarkable in the French culture. « hide |
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