Didier Wampas, hello to you working punk!

Published on December 16, 2024 at 2:53 p.m. / Modified on December 16, 2024 at 3:01 p.m.

4 mins. reading

We are going to talk about a time that those under 50 cannot know, but please, wait a little and read on even if the cliché annoys you… Because this is a page of the history of French music, of its collective memory, of a pro-rock atmosphere like we will never do again. From an alternative scene so abundant in the 1980s that a small fanzine – it was like a poorly written blog, but in print – could easily make you micro-famous. Where there was room for noisy and absurd punk (Ludwig von 88), another much more civic (Bérurier Noir), where anyone could try anything with two chords and a thread of energy.

A time when getting your baccalaureate by admitting your ignorance to the examiner – who added 20 points out of pity – remained possible, and where confessing false suicidal impulses and an absolute love of rock’n’roll could save you from service. military, still obligatory at that time in France. This is what happened to Didier Wampas, real name Didier Chappedelaine, member of this artisanal catch-all with his Wampas tribe. Wampas, like the name of a fictional population borrowed from comics Moneysolitary hero of prehistory, again a memory from another century. And we say tribe, too, because absolutely no one is called Wampas in the group created in 1983 – it was just a nod to the Ramones…

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