The band's recent and current activities include new songs (recorded 1998, 2004, 2006, 2007, 2009), two retrospective LPs: Enormous Savages on Anna Logue Records and the double Press My Hungry Button for VOD-Records, a CD from Klanggalerie: Enormous-Savages Enlarged - and ongoing work on further releases of 1980s and new material. This site contains information on all released and unreleased music, with some mp3s of new and old music, reviews, interviews.
Cultural Amnesia are: Gerard Greenway, Ben Norland and John Peacock. Part of the post-punk/industrial music cassette culture of the late 70s to early 80s, they released three albums: Video Rideo, Sinclair's Luck and The Uncle of the Boot, contributed to compilations and played some concerts. Much work remained unreleased at the time, including two albums: The Undertow of Evening and Obscenity.
Latest News
Enormous Savages (Anna Logue Records) and Press My Hungry Button (VOD-Records) are still available. These are both limited vinyl editions. Click on the album titles for further details and reviews.
'[A] remarkable piece of musical archaeology and certainly one of the reissues of the year.'
Review of Enormous Savages, The Sound Projector
- Full text available at the CA reviews page.
'[A] cracking release, featuring a whole host of gems in the raw - mined straight from the New Wave seam.'
Review of Press My Hungry Button, Hi-Fi World
May 08 - CA have done a fairly lengthy interview with Compulsion magazine. Select 'Album' at the site.
- Text is also available at the CA interviews page.
Oct 08 - Messthetics Greatest Hiss: Classics of UK Cassette-Culture DIY 1979-1982 on Hyped to Death features CA's 'Repetition for this world (original version)' (1981).
Feb 09 - Three of CA's new recordings are included in Salt Magazine Issue 2
April 09 - Enormous-Savages Enlarged, a CD version of Enormous Savages with a bonus 1980s track and five post-2000 songs, is now available from the Klanggalerie label.
April 10 - The Anna Logue Years - Anna Logue Records. A 2xCD compilation of tracks from Anna Logue Records' first five years. It includes CA's 'Materialistic Man'.
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May 2010