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It's because of a guy everyone called Fern that Louis Cyr, aka Ludwig Wax, was infected by a virus unremarkably known as rock'n'coil. "His real proper name is Pierre Ferland," says Cyr, nigh the person who made him want to devote his life to shaking his moneymaker, on his knees, onstage, with a Mexican wrestling mask on his head, night after nighttime. Fifty-fifty if information technology means ending up lone, like all of his peers. In other words, becoming, i solar day, the vocaliser for Nombre, and one of Québec's almost flamboyant rock singers – half acrobat, half daredevil.

Flashback to Québec Urban center in the early on '90s. "Fern DJ'd at Midnight on Tuesday nights," says Cyr, "and he'd founded an astonishing band chosen Kaopectak alongside Gourmet Délice [bass player for Secrétaires Volantes, Caféïne and Nombre, founder of Blow the Fuse Records, and now business evolution director for Bonsound]. They did covers of obscure punk and rock songs. Fern was a very calm dude, but on stage… WOAH! We imagine all kinds of things nigh rock stars, only Fern was truly the first person I saw go onstage, go into a trance, and return to their normal life afterward. I said to myself, 'I want to exercise that, likewise.'"

In 1996, "in some basement in Cap-Rouge," he recorded Fun Bomb!, the just anthology past Demolition, his first band. I show him the album embrace from my end of the videoconference call. "Expect within!" says Cyr. "Exercise you run into who produced the album?" And what I can clearly run into is that it was produced past Stéphane Papillon, with whom Cyr recently re-united in Drogue, Québec's new super-grouping, the other members of which are guitar hero Jean-Sébastien Chouinard, bassist Fred Fortin, and drummer Pierre Fortin (of Gros Mené and Galaxie).

"At the cease of my Cégep, the ii bands that fabricated it to the finals of Cégeps en spectacle were Papillon'southward band and Jean-Philippe's [Dynamite Roy, guitarist for Secrétaires Volantes and Nombre, and Drogue'due south lyricist]. Papillon sang 'I Wanna Be Your Canis familiaris' and information technology was the first time I heard a Stooges song."

Rock "funabulist," boyish on the loose, charismatic, and nearly likely a bit masochistic, equally Ludwig Wax, Cyr became a Québécois Iggy Popular, never hesitating to wrap his microphone string effectually his cervix, to climb everywhere, to catapult himself into the crowd and to practise the snake on the floor, a modus operandi he adopted correct from the go-go with Demolition, and which would guide him to the third and ultimate Nombre, Vile et fantastique (2009).

"C'est-tu l'aube, c'est-tu l'aube, c'est-tu fifty'aube, c'est-tu fifty'aube ou le crépuscule ? /Un jour je me bats, y'en dix autres où je capitule" ("Is information technology dawn, is it dawn, is it dawn, is it dawn or is it dusk? /Ane day I fight, in that location are 10 other where I capitulate") he howls on "L'aube ou le crepuscule," the galvanizing offset single from Drogue's kickoff EP.

"I consider Jean-Philippe Roy to be i of the well-nigh of import songwriters of the punk stone Francophonie," says Louis about his longtime friend, whom we could qualify as semi-retired from the rock scene. "In that vocal, Jean-Philippe is wondering if our feet are within or exterior of our catafalque. How are we supposed to react to aging? We're all effectually 50 years erstwhile now."

What's Cyr'southward attitude with regards to his own age? Let's start with a listing of injuries: Ludwig Wax has "kneecaps typical of someone who likewise often decided to jump really high and land on their knees like a moron," he says. He has back issues, also linked to his stunts, and a shoulder that makes him miserable since he dislocated it during a Demolition testify in Nippon during a G8 Summit in 2000.

"My mental attitude towards aging?" He gives an unequivocal answer. accompanied by a booming express mirth: "I decided bring together Drogue!" (Editor's annotation: The line in French is "J'ai décidé de jouer dans Drogue," a wordplay best translated every bit, "I decided to play with drugs.")

Although Stéphane Papillon and Jean-Sébastien Chouinard tricked him into joining the ring – he met them thinking he was just going to collaborate on a single song for Papillon's solo album – the vocalizer, now that he's got the bug once more, is dying to get onstage and "feel the air moving because of the amps." Every bit difficult to believe as it is, a certain virus (more dangerous than the rock one) has meant that the members of Drogue have never all been together in the same room. That besides explains why Cyr is the only band fellow member – disguised as a human billboard(!) – featured in the video for De la poudre aux yeux, a tribute to Guy L'Écuyer'due south grapheme in André Forcier's film Au clair de la lune (1983).

"I want to become one with the music when I'm onstage," says Cyr. "I want to be stabbed past the sound waves of the drums, guitars, and bass. I know not everyone enjoys loud music, merely I do. Information technology makes a lot of musical styles more interesting. Whenever I listen to music or sing, I become to a betoken where I feel it should be fifty-fifty louder."

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