'Kaught at the Kampus' gig remembered 40 years later with Grand Parade mural

Legendary Cork post-punk record remembered with a mural on the city's Grand Parade thoroughfare

The city-central murals on Grand Parade, marking forty years since the live recording of post-punk EP 'Kaught at the Kampus'. Pic: Siobhán Bardsley

As one of Cork city's most influential records approaches its 40th anniversary, a pair of new murals on the Grand Parade this week celebrates the cultural contributions of the artists involved.

Recorded on August 30th 1980, at the Arcadia Ballroom on Lower Glanmire Road, Kaught at the Kampus captured four Leeside post-punk bands on stage as part of a showcase gig at the venue, with Nun Attax, Mean Features, Urban Blitz and Micro-Disney (the hyphen being indicative of the band's first Cork-based incarnation) appearing on its eventual split 12" release in 1981, the debut excursion for gig organiser Elvera Butler's Reekus Records label.