EP24 - Kaught at the Kampus

To Here Knows When - Great Irish Albums Revisited

In this episode Elvera Butler joins me to discuss Kaught at the Kampus the live EP featuring four young Cork bands - Nun Attax, Micro Disney, Mean Features and Urban Blitz - that was recorded at the Downtown Kampus at Cork's Arcadia Ballroom on 30 August 1980. The famed EP has just been expanded and reissued. Elvera talks about growing up in a musical family in Thurles, attending UCC, being elected Entertainments Officer for the Student's Union, promoting gigs in the Kampus Kitchen on campus, taking over the old Arcadia Ballroom on Lower Glanmire Road and promoting some of the biggest touring UK and Irish bands between 1977 and 1981 including: The Cure, The Specials, The Beat, The Only Ones, XTC, The Cimarons, The Damned, Virgin Prunes, U2, The Radiators, The Fall, UB40 and many, many others. It's a long-ranging conversation that also takes in Elvera's move to London after the demise of the Kampus gigs. Episode note are here.