CLUB MORAL
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Club Moral is an organization founded by artists Anne-Mie Van Kerckhoven (AMVK) and Danny Devos (DDV) on January 1st, 1981, in Antwerp, Belgium. From 1981 until 1987, Club Moral functioned both as an industrial band and a venue. The venue, located in Antwerp, became a hub for underground culture, hosting numerous exhibitions, happenings and live performances by artists like Produktion, Boyd Rice, John Duncan and Coupe de Grace. The first event at Club Moral took place on June 19th, 1981, featuring État Brut performing live together with DDV and Mécanique Végétale. Later that year, on September 19th, the band Club Moral made its live debut. They quickly gained a reputation for their confrontational performances, provocative imagery and uncompromising attitude. Between 82 and 87, the group released a series of legendary cassettes, filled with raw industrial sounds, primitive power electronics, noise and conceptual art.

In 1989, the band remained active and recorded their first LP for Cthulhu Records. Around the same time, Frank Gorissen began producing electronic music and hosting a radio program called Radio Militia. He invited Club Moral to perform a live radio session in his studio, where the band played a mix of new versions of familiar tracks and improvised pieces. The recordings were never released, until 2024, when Frank rediscovered the original tapes and produced a new master that perfectly captures the raw energy of the performance. Club Moral agreed on releasing it as an album and AMVK designed the cover art, featuring images of people who were born or died on the date of the performance, March 29th.

In the late 1990s, DDV was a teacher-in-residence at the art school where I was studying. I enrolled in his performance workshop and on the first day, he showed us videos of extreme performance art and then challenged the group to do similar actions. His determination and hardline approach left me impressed and it became an inspiring and intense week for me personally. I’m happy and proud to be able to release this Club Moral CD as a follow up to the Lonely Weekends 7” from 2006.