Kaught at the Kampus

Kaught at the Kampus
Live album by
Various artists
Released1981
Recorded30 August 1980
GenrePost-punk
LabelReekus Records

Kaught at the Kampus is a live compilation 12-inch EP conceived and organised by Irish promoter Elvera Butler, and released in 1981 on her Reekus Records label. A showcase of then emerging Cork city punk and post-punk bands, it contains tracks by Nun Attax (later known as Five Go Down to the Sea?), Mean Features (featuring Mick Lynch (vocals) and Liam Heffernan (guitar)), Urban Blitz (who later became Cypress, Mine!) and Microdisney (whose members Cathal Coughlan and Sean O'Hagan later formed The Fatima Mansions and The High Llamas respectively.)

The album was recorded live at the Arcadia Ballroom (commonly known as the Arc), Cork, Ireland, on 30 August 1980.[1] Nun Attax were at the time scene leaders, and given three tracks on side one. Microdisney went on to international recognition with their 1985 album The Clock Comes Down The Stairs.[2]

Following reissued of stock copies in 2015 and 2020,[3][4] the compilation was re-pressed on vinyl and fully reissued in 2021 on its 40th anniversary. Writing in 2020, Mike McGrath-Bryan of the Irish Examiner said that the mural recognises a "record has come to be regarded as a document of the Cork music scene at an important juncture, helping to set the tone for the city's subsequent musical reputation, with many of the musicians and personalities involved becoming cult figures in their own right."[5]

  1. ^ McDermott 2020.
  2. ^ McDermott 2001.
  3. ^ McDermott 2016.
  4. ^ Cite error: The named reference jacks was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  5. ^ McGrath-Bryan 2020.