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MASKED QUÉBÉCOIS CAT DUO MAKES U.S. TV DEBUT; CONFUSED HUMANS APPLAUD WILDLY.
Two masks, one double-neck instrument and a room mistaking phase one for performance art.
Masked Québécois duo Grippe de Velours made its U.S. television debut Tuesday wearing enormous papier-mâché heads and matching polka dots. Guitarist-bassist Môrn attacked a double-neck instrument while drummer Clak held down a looped, microtonal song that sounded like a fax machine achieving consciousness. The studio audience applauded wildly, with the careless joy of humans who mistook the first step of world domination for performance art.
Backstage, the duo declined interviews and requested a larger dressing room for “administrative purposes.”
By morning, three affiliates were speaking French.
THE HUMAN STORY BEHIND THE NONSENSE
Pattern inspiration: Angine de Poitrine makes its U.S. TV debut with a new song, oversized papier-mâché masks and a double-neck guitar/bass — Guitar World, 2026-09-15. This is an original fictional cat story, not a report about the real people in that coverage.
Fiction & satire. These cats and their scandals are invented.
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