Feral Lupercalia Event featuring Yé-Yé Girls

Feral Lupercalia Event featuring Yé-Yé Girls
With Maja D’ Aoust, Adam Parfrey, and other Feral House and Process Media authors
plus DJ Kitten Sparkles spinning Yé-Yé hits!
Saturday Feb. 15, 7-10 PM

The Lupercalia was one of the most ancient Roman festivals, which was celebrated every year in honour of Lupercus, the god of fertility. The festival was held on the 15th of February in the Lupercal, where Romulus and Remus were said to have been nurtured by the she-wolf.

Celebrate Lupercalia AND the girls of French Yé-Yé pop at this Feral House event featuring the release of Yé-Yé Girls of ‘60s French Pop by Jean-Emmanuel Deluxe, plus Feral House and Process Media authors Maja D’Aoust (speaking on Lupercalia) and Adam Parfrey. DJ Kitten Sparkles will be spinning Yé-Yé music all through the event!

Yé-Yé is a delightful style of ‘60s pop music featuring young female singers that influenced France and many other countries.Yé-Yé pop had secondary explosions in the 1970s and 1990s in Japan and Europe through the likes of Lio (who provides this book’s foreword), and in the United States through singers like April March, whose Yé-Yé number “Chick Habit” was heard in the Quentin Tarantino film Death Proof.

Interest in Yé-Yé revived again recently during the fifth season of the mega-popular television series Mad Men, when Don Draper’s young, sexy wife sang the Yé-Yé number “Zou Bisou Bisou,” originally made famous in the 1960s by blonde actress Gillian Hills.

The most famous Yé-Yé practitioners include the glamorous Sylvie Vartan (married to rock star Johnny Hallyday), French lolita France Gall, beautiful actresses Brigitte Bardot and Chantal Goya, and the statuesque Françoise Hardy.

This collection by French pop music expert Jean-Emmanuel Deluxe includes many interviews with the original singers and producers, visual excerpts of record covers, both 45s and LPs, and remarkable excerpts from a children’s fan diary of the period.

This lavishly illustrated compendium is like a passport to another time and place…a window into an era in which one could switch on the TV & see Bridget Bardot singing about Harley Davidson motorcycles while wearing thigh-high boots and a black leather mini-skirt. This book may well be the Bible of Yé-Yé.—Boyd Rice

Yé-Yé Girls of ’60s French Pop
by Jean-Emmanuel Deluxe
Foreword by Lio
ISBN: 9781936239719
eISBN: 9781936239726
8×8
256 pages
paperback with flaps
dozens of color images
$25