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French rock band from Lyon (France) born in 1980 and created by John Fernie (vocal) and Gilles Verschooris (keyboards). Many drummers, bassists & guitarists will play with these two musicians who will always stayed in the band. On stage, it is said that John Fernie was somewhere beetween "Beethoven and Jeffrey Lee Pierce", a kind of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde, with a very physical and impressive presence. The band's music was original, rock, dark and new wave with many influences. They played and opened for Alan Vega (Mai 82), The Police in Lyon, at the Eldorado in Paris, at the Rocklight (Palais d'Hiver in Lyon) in 83 and in numerous festivals in France ("Elixir" in Toulouse, "Boulevard du Rock" in Bordeaux, "Les TransMusicales" of Rennes, "Le Printemps de Bourges", etc). John Fernie became an important theatre actor in Lyon (acting for Roger Planchon, Jérôme Savary and many others), always singing and writing musics, he died in january 2004. This website (http://www.steviedixon.com/Rockalyon/Tales.htm) greatly inspired this text and will give you more precises informations about rock bands from Lyon with press articles, photos and testimonies of relatives about all these bands from the second city of France.