Françoise Cactus (who is the singer and drummer with Stereo Total) was vegging out in the most boring village in French Burgundy and learned soon to use her spines. At the innocent age of 12 years, she won the regional reader's competition, but only 2 years later her cunning debut "Photo-Souvenir" was labelled "Lolita Literature". After studies in Art History, Literature and Linguistics and breaking up with adulthood (much too late, anyway) the desert plant was edging her way towards Steppenwolf: Berlin. Here, she collaborated with filmmaker Oskar Roehler and wrote the purely fictional "Autobigophonie". Enmeshing oddities, blemishing her wit aphorisms by swearing and exclamation marks and warping the words as only foreigners can do, she keeps her alert maiden-style. Forever 16.