Current Activities
September 2026. Culturalamnesia.com was launched in 2003 and the below information covers the years 2004-2011, and stops a few months short of the release of our "come-back" album This Is Not Your Shape (Bleak 2011, 2012). It therefore covers the period of the release of our three 1980s compilations, the vinyl releases Enormous Savages (Anna Logue Records 2007) and Press My Hungry Button (VOD Records 2007), and the CD Enormous Savages Enlarged (Klanggalerie 2009), as well as the Mini-CD EP Little Savage and the vinyl EP Still Hungry (these two accompanying early sales of, respectively, Enormous Savages and Press My Hungry Button). Enormous Savages Enlarged was the Anna Logue LP with an extra '80s track ("Wee Sorg", available on the album at Bandcamp) and also included five post-1998 tracks. These post-reformation tracks were released on Bandcamp in September of 2026 as Extra Savage - At The Hands Of The Makoh'lenga.
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Matter updated and external links checked/cleaned 27/09/26.
Here's what's going on with Cultural Amnesia.
May 2008 - CA have done a fairly lengthy interview with Compulsion magazine. Select "Album" at the site. The text is also available at the CA interviews page.
Oct 2008 - 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). (September 2026: Hyped to Death has ceased operation, copies of the CD will be available at Discogs.)
Feb 2009 - Three of CA's new recordings are included in Salt Magazine, issue 2 (September 2026: The magazine has now closed.)
April 2009 - 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. (September 2026: The content of the CD is available at the CA Bandcamp as Enormous Savages (with "Wee Sorg", the extra '80s track), and Extra Savage (the five post-2000 tracks). Copies of the CD will be available at Discogs.)
April 2010 - 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". (September 2026: Please see Discogs for copies of this compilation.)
November 2010 - Why Be Blake When You Can Be Bleak, a 3-CD compilation, is available for free download from Bleak netlabel. It includes CA's "Little Blue Grains", a previously unreleased track from the '80s, and "Brand New Day", recorded 2009. (September 2026: Please check Discogs for copies of this compilation, which includes John Balance's spoken-word "Coil Manifesto".)
November 25 2010 - CA salute the life and work of Peter Christopherson.
2011 - June 2011 will see the 30th anniversary of the release of Video Rideo. To mark it CA are at work on an album of material drawn from recordings made 2004-2009 for release in the second half of this year. There should also be a digital release of '80s material in the next few months. (September 2026: The album mentioned is This Is Not Your Shape, released by Bleak in 2011 as a download and in 2012 as a CD special edition. The special edition is available at the CA Bandcamp.)
Enormous Savages Enlarged
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 25 2009). (September 2026: The CD is long sold out. Copies will be available at Discogs. The five post-2000 tracks are available as Extra Savage at the CA Bandcamp. Enormous Savages at the CA Bandcamp includes the extra '80s track, the instrumental "Wee Sorg".)
Messthetics Greatest Hiss: Classics of UK Cassette-Culture DIY 1979-1982 (volume I, Messthetics #110) - Hyped to Death, October 2008. Track: "Repetition For This World (original version)" (1981). (September 2026: Hyped to Death has ceased operation. Copies of the CD will be available at Discogs. The original version of "Repetition For This World" was released on Press My Hungry Button, which album is available for download at the CA Bandcamp.)
Salt Magazine, Issue 2 - Salt Magazine, February 2009. Tracks: "Contains" (2006), "I Heard It On The Radio" (2007), "It's Coming!" (2006). (September 2026: These three tracks are included on Extra Savage, available at the CA Bandcamp.)
A session at the Hippocampus in March 2006 produced seven new songs. Three more were recorded in September 2006. Two new songs were recorded December 2007.
May 2008 - CA have done an interview with Compulsion magazine. Select "Album" at the site. (Also available at this site: interviews.)
A further double-LP release of early '80s material is planned from VOD-Records in early 2011. (September 2026: This project stalled and there was no second release from VOD.)
A further double-LP release of CA's early 80s output on VOD-Records is now available. VOD subscribers will get a bonus EP -- Still Hungry -- with four further tracks. - Now out, released October 31 2007. (VOD Records is long sold out, copies of the album and the EP are available at Discogs and album and EP are downloadable at the CA Bandcamp. A free EP sampler from the album, Ring The Hungry Bell, is also available from the CA Bandcamp.)
Nine tracks from the early '80s released on LP by Anna Logue Records in mid 2007 (ANNA 007). Initial sales of Enormous Savages were accompanied by a free mini-CD of new material entitled Little Savage - Now out, released July 11 2007. (September 2026: Anna Logue Records is long sold out, copies of the album are available at Discogs and the full album and Little Savage are downloadable at the CA Bandcamp.)
Released January 2008, with CA's 1982 "Resthome (the man who worked with tourists)".
"I Am Taking Photographs" (2004) is included on Ninth Wave Record's Electricity iii compilation - see compilations.
The previously unreleased track "Down By The Canal" (Biohazard Sessions) is included on this "double CDR collection of various artists affiliated with the cassette movement of the 1980s and 1990s" edited by US cassettist Don Campau.
A second compilation of recent recordings from cassette-culture acts who are still active is available. Editor, Chris Phinney. Cultural Amnesia have contributed "Contains" (2006) - see compilations. (September 2026: Please check Discogs for availability of these collections.)
Four track from Ben Norland's solo electronica project themilgramobediencetoauthorityexperiment (tMOAE) are available through the Entr'acte label. They're were available as part of the compilation release no. e35. (September 2026: Available at themilgramobediencetoauthority Bandcamp.)
Greenway solo loops
A few loops were uploaded to MySpace. (September 2026: Virtually, ancient history.)
Shows/stations playing CA...
Art for Spastics on KDVS Radio; BSR 88.1 FM WELH: The Dawn is Your Enemy; WMBR 88.1 fm - Late Riser's Club; WCBN 88.3 fm - Freeform with Tyler C; KFJC 89.7 fm -- Grizzly Adams and Justin Outlier shows; Minimal-Elektronic Plus; WFMU 91.1 fm -- various shows: Jason Elbogen, Martha, Liz Berg, Bill Zurat, Bethany Ryker, Brian Turner, Woody, Fabio, Benjamin Walker, Michael Goodstein, Pseu Braun, Daniel Blumin, Bill Mac; Aural Innovations; The Sound Projector; Weird Science at Feindsender; Homemade Alien Music -- Series of programmes by Hal McGee drawing on his huge archive of cassettes from the '80s and '90s.; Another Nice Mess; No Pigeonholes; Crooked Stylus at Totally Radio; Space Lab -- Materialistic Man (Video Rideo) "tune of the week", April 2004; Escape From Noise; Spellbound: "a brief program of music for theremin"; Radio Futuro 88.9 fm -- A one-hour edition of Punto de Vanguardia devoted to CA, 28 February 2005; BBC Radio Oxford 95.2FM -- SeaSong (2004) was voted the winner by listeners of a "demo of the week" feature on The Download programme, 25 March 2005; X Rated at Kink FM; TCP Electric Radio.
Promising newcomers(!) CA won a "demo of the month" competition from an Oxford, UK music magazine, Nightshift, for the 2004 tracks in April 2005.
CA were featured in "The Hidden History of Pop – Top Ten 'Unknowns'", published by Popbooks, Web Magazine of Popular Culture (Belgrade) in March 2005, in a list heavily favouring acts from the post-punk period. Here is the translated text...
This obscure British band could hardly be called influential in the real sense of the word, being practically non-existent on the contemporary musical map. Cultural Amnesia teeter on the brink of total psychosis. Nine Inch Nails are a lullaby in comparison. The band's three albums, all cassette-only releases, are very difficult to find nowadays, with originals selling on the Net for about 50 Euros. But you can download a good number of recordings for free at the official website.
Cultural Amnesia are an ideal soundtrack for nocturnal Belgrade. For a moment they are a cyber-Doors, then Joy Division adrift in one of the lower circles of hell, then an evil Tuxedomoon. Paranoia, noise and anxiety, dark-wave and electro-noise, distorted sounds as though emitted from pipes, screaming synthesizers and a rain of electroids floating through the entangled cables of the digital world-net... This band's message: there is no exit from the abyss.