The Lou’s, in 1977 Mont-de-Marsan festival book

Lou’s Mont-de-Marsan festival 1977

Translation of the part about the Lou’s at the 1977 Mont-de-Marsan punk festival in France. From French punk fanzine I Wanna Be Your Dog, #7, October 1977. By Gilles Scheps (see also here) (thank you, Hervé, for sending the scans!):

‘‘I was wakened up by the chirping of the band Strychnine, I got my razor and my safety pin. I went up front, where the bands 1984, Asphalt Jungle were waiting for me. But wait … there, four representants of the female gender appeared, one red-haired [their singer/lead guitarist, the late Pamela Popo], one [rhythm guitarist, the late Raphaële Devins] b[l]onde, two brown-haired ones. As sexy as Berliet vintage cars, they played their rather original rock ‘n’ roll compositions. They had to play two encores. Their audience were as pleasantly surprised as they themselves. They were the most sympathetic FRENCH band of the festival! Their name: the LOU’S (Les chiottes [toilets], according to the French translation) [not according to motorcycle rider Raphaële Devins, who said their name was an abbreviation of loubardes, motorcycle gang girls; nothing to “do with ‘loos’, English for toilets]

From the French 2013 book: Punk festival Mont de Marsan 1976 & 1977. “Le massacre des bébés skaï”. By Thierry Saltet. The pages, p. 113f. about the Lou’s.