B-Side the Leeside: Kaught at the Kampus 

Cork's Greatest Records: A four-band compilation recorded at a gig at the Arcadia in 1980 stands as an important document of the city’s thriving post-punk scene

Mean Features were one of the bands to feature on the Kaught at the Kampus compilation. From left lower, Liam Heffernan, Pat Kelleher, Mick Lynch. Top left: Denis (a friend of the band!) and Steve O'Donoghue. Picture taken at the White Street carpark in 1980.  Copyright: Ciarán Ó Tuama

When Elvera Butler heard about a mobile studio in Belfast that had once recorded the Rolling Stones she imagined something chic and state-of-the-art. 

So it came as a shock, to put it mildly, to see a rickety caravan stutter to a halt outside the Arcadia Ballroom on Lower Glanmire Road in Cork on the evening of August 30 1980.