Limerick · Est. 2014
Vinyl,Loud rooms,No filler.
An independent record shop and 80-cap live venue on Catherine Street. We stock what we love, book bands we'd pay to see, and have strong opinions about most things.
An independent record shop and 80-cap live venue on Catherine Street. We stock what we love, book bands we'd pay to see, and have strong opinions about most things.
Track 4 · "Newcastle" · Side B · Rough Trade · 2023
Pluto opened in a damp Catherine Street basement in 2014 because Limerick deserved a proper shop — somewhere you could find the new Fontaines D.C. pressing and a 1972 Planxty original in the same trip, and argue about both with someone who'd actually heard them.
Ten years on we're still here, slightly less damp, with a small stage out the back where roughly 80 of you can crowd in to watch the next band you'll be telling people you saw first.
Small room. Loud bands. Doors usually 8pm, support 8:30, headline 9:30-ish. Tickets are physical and printed in the shop — pick them up or buy on the door if there's any left.
Dublin post-punk noise. Loud, fast, and they'll absolutely sell this out — get a ticket.
Kerry's finest weirdo folk export, solo and acoustic. Bring a friend who thinks they don't like trad.
Galway shoegaze meets Cork miserabilism. A double-bill that has no business being this good.
Stripped-back set in a room of 80 people. This is the kind of thing the shop exists for.
Five local bands, one stage, no entry charge if you've spent a tenner in the shop that month. Fair?
They've outgrown rooms like ours, but they're doing it anyway. Ear plugs at the counter, no charge.
Fresh in the last seven days. We don't pad the racks — if it's here, somebody in the shop wanted to listen to it.
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds
Rudresh Mahanthappa
The Bothy Band
Overmono
Indie, jazz, electronic, hip-hop, Irish trad and the slow drift between them. Heavily curated — we'd rather have 200 records we believe in than 2,000 we don't.
Two thousand-odd used records, graded honestly. Trade-ins on Tuesdays and Thursdays. Bring your dad's collection. We'll be fair.
Pluto merch, plus a rotating selection of band shirts that aren't just classic-rock dinosaurs printed in a Bangladeshi factory. Mostly.
Music books we've actually read. Memoirs, criticism, oral histories, the odd cookbook by a drummer. Ask and we'll recommend.
For our own venue and most other independent gigs across Limerick. Physical tickets, no booking fee, no QR-code nonsense.
If we don't have it and it's in print, we'll get it in. Usually 5–10 days. No deposit. We'll text you when it lands.
The venue is small on purpose. Eighty people, low stage, no barrier, decent monitors. It's the kind of room where you can see the setlist taped to the floor and the guitarist can hear the heckle from the back.
We book emerging Irish indie acts and visiting tours that don't fit (or don't want to fit) bigger Limerick rooms. Bands get fed, paid, and treated like adults.
14 Catherine Street, Limerick City, V94 XK20
Phone: +353 61 555 014
Email: hello@plutorecords.ie
Bookings: bookings@plutorecords.ie
Open later on gig nights. Always.
Ticket queries, record requests, gig bookings, complaints about the music we put on Tuesdays — all welcome.