Cultural Amnesia

In 1979, Oxfordshire schoolboys Ben Norland, Gerard Greenway and John Peacock formed experimental DIY trio Cultural Amnesia. They revisit the excitement of the early 80s “cassette culture” scene, 47 years on

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