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Plugd Records
Company typeMusic retailer, café, live music venue
IndustryRetail, food service, live events, culture
Founded2001 (as physical retailer)
2020 (as online retailer)
HeadquartersCornmarket Street, Cork City, Ireland
ProductsRecords, CDs, cassettes, books, zines, accessories; coffee, snacks, wine; live music events
Websiteplugdrecords.com

Plugd Records (sometimes stylised as PLUGD Records; and referred to locally as Plugd) is an independent record shop, café and concert venue in Cork City, Ireland.

Founded in 2001 by Jim Horgan, and co-run until 2018 alongside Out on a Limb Records co-founder Albert Twomey; the shop sells records, CDs, cassettes and printed matter like zines, functioning from its infancy as an important social hub for Cork's independent music community.[1]

At its current premises on the city's quayside Cornmarket Street, it also functions as a local coffee shop and an intimate events venue, continuing an operations model utilised successfully at its previous locations.

In a 2023 article on Cork's music scene for Bandcamp Daily, journalist Mariana Timony referred to the shop as "nothing less than Cork DIY’s spiritual home", and to Horgan as "a Cork underground institution".[2]

In addition to its ongoing activities, the Plugd Records name was briefly used for a label operating from the shop, credited with co-releasing a 2013 double-vinyl pressing of local band Rest's second album, I Hold the Wolf.[3]

History

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Founded by Horgan in 2001, the shop was originally based on Cork's Washington Street as a two-floor premises, also selling live event tickets and exhibiting local visual art, until the location's closure in 2009.[4]

Plugd subsequently sold records from a weekly stall at the now-defunct Réalt Dearg pub among other locations, before relocating to the former ESB substation on Caroline Street on a temporary basis.

In 2011, the shop found a new home, on the first floor of the Triskel Arts Centre, Tobin Street, with its sister café and music venue, Gulpd Café, located on the ground floor.[5]

In 2017, the shop relocated to the top floor of The Roundy bar in the Queen's Old Castle area of the city, where it continued to function as a venue in the evenings.

Upon the onset of the Covid-19 pandemic, the shop's operations at the Roundy ceased; with Horgan opening an official online store in mid-2020, and retailing on select weekends and occasions at anarchist bookshop and community space Rebel Reads, in the city's docklands Marina Business Park.

In 2022, Plugd opened a new physical record shop and café on the city's Cornmarket Street (colloquially known as the Coal Quay), which also continues to function as an intimate venue. Plugd also collaborates on live events with nearby outdoor venue TEST SITE, as well as with numerous local collectives and initiatives.

Performances

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Artists and DJs to have performed at Plugd Records' locations, related venues and live events banner include:[citation needed]

  • ¡NO!
  • African Fiction
  • Ailísh Conneely
  • Alex Zhang Hungtai
  • Alien She
  • All the Brave Hunters
  • The Altered Hours
  • Ana Palindrome
  • Anna Mieke
  • Anne la Berge
  • Annie & Mo
  • Aoife Blake
  • Aoife O'Neill
  • Any Joy
  • Antakya Remains
  • Aonghus McEvoy
  • Asha
  • The At This Times
  • Automatic Tasty
  • The Banshee
  • Bantum
  • Basciville
  • Batoh Labradorite
  • BB84
  • Belvedere Torso
  • Benoit Pioulard
  • Bhailiú
  • Bill Converse
  • Bill Karnation
  • Blue Whale
  • Boa Morte
  • Bouts
  • Boy Soprano
  • Brian Ring
  • Brian MacGloinn
  • Brigid Mae Power
  • Cal Folger Day
  • Caleb Hall
  • Calspar Romulan
  • Caoilian Sherlock
  • Carriages
  • Cate Kennan
  • Cathal MacGabhann
  • Cian Nugent
  • The Council for the Dark Arts Orchestra
  • Claire Guerin
  • Clang Sayne
  • Clara Treacy
  • Cloud Castle Lake
  • Colm K
  • Correspondent
  • Cosmo
  • Costello
  • County Vinyl
  • The Creeps
  • Crevice
  • Crome Yellow
  • Cruiser
  • Damp Howl
  • Dan Walsh
  • Danny Carroll
  • Dancing Bears
  • Darren Kelly
  • Darren Li
  • David Kitt
  • DC FSL MAN
  • DBT
  • Debajyoti Sanjal
  • Declan Synnott
  • Denise Chaila
  • DJ Helicopter Parent
  • Dónal Dineen
  • The Drifter
  • Eamon Ivri
  • Elaine Howley
  • Elaine Malone
  • Elie Bukassa
  • ELLLL
  • Eraser TV
  • Eric Mingus
  • Eve Clague
  • Faoi Bhláth
  • Feather Report
  • Felispeaks
  • Fixity
  • Flowers at Night
  • Flukey
  • FONN
  • Foolish Mortal
  • Frog of Earth
  • Gadget & the Cloud
  • Gaptoof
  • Gary Fitz
  • Gatch
  • Gilbert Steele
  • Goblin Librarian
  • God Alone
  • GodKnows
  • The Great Balloon Race
  • Greg Fox
  • The Guilteens
  • Gum Takes Tooth
  • Guy Holes
  • GYM
  • Hags
  • Hands Up Who Wants to Die
  • Hanora George
  • Happyalone
  • Hazey Haze
  • Hegra
  • Helm
  • Hilary Woods
  • HowlBux
  • Huerco S.
  • I Am the Cosmos
  • Inni-K
  • Ireland
  • Is Mise Ruadhán
  • James May
  • jarjarjr
  • Jasmine Wood
  • Jean-Luc Razza
  • Jeremy Murphy
  • Jim Ghedi
  • JyellowL
  • Jessica Moss
  • Joey Galvin
  • Jus'Me
  • Katie Kim
  • KENL
  • Kevin Murphy
  • Kevin Terry
  • Lakerama
  • Land Crabs
  • Landless
  • Last Eden
  • Lastminuteman
  • Laura Duff
  • Laurie Shaw
  • LDSN
  • Leah Sohotra
  • Lerosa
  • Let's Set Sail
  • Lighght
  • Lifts
  • Lolz
  • Lori Goldston
  • Luke O'Neill
  • Lumigraph
  • Magic Pockets
  • Mai Mai Mai
  • Maija Sofia
  • Maria Somerville
  • Mary Ocher
  • Meljoann
  • Mikron
  • Miss Lu-Le
  • MMOTHS
  • Moundabout
  • Mount Alaska
  • MueseuM
  • Myles Manley
  • Nadja
  • The Nagasaki Suntans
  • Natalia Beylis
  • NC Grey
  • Neil Ó Briain
  • Nonsleep
  • Not Earth
  • O Emperor
  • The Ocelots
  • Oh Boland!
  • Olan Cahill
  • Oootini
  • oOse
  • Ora Cogan
  • Oranges
  • Ordnance Survey
  • OutOut
  • Outsider YP
  • Pacino Brady
  • Paddy Shine
  • Paddy Steer
  • Pale Rivers
  • Paper Dollhouse
  • Patrick Freeman
  • Paul Kav
  • Pebbledash
  • Péist
  • Perish
  • Phiach
  • Phil Hope
  • Phil Maguire
  • Phil Scott
  • Pinhole
  • pôt-pôt
  • Percolator
  • Pretty Happy
  • The Quiet Club
  • Rare Faction
  • Rattle
  • Richard Dawson
  • Richie Delahunty
  • Roam
  • Robbie Ward
  • Robedoor
  • Rory Francis O'Brien
  • Roslyn Steer
  • Rua Rí
  • Ryley Walker
  • Ryosuke Kiyasu
  • Sam Amidon
  • Sarah-Beth
  • School Tour
  • Seamus Fogarty
  • Seán Being
  • Senior Infants
  • SHITHäTT
  • Simo Cell
  • Sissy
  • September Girls
  • Slow Set
  • The Smoke Clears
  • Soft Focus
  • Somadrone
  • Sonny Emerald
  • Spekulativ Fiktion
  • Steve Welsh
  • Stevie G's Vinyl Love
  • Strange Boy
  • The Sunshine Factory
  • Superficie
  • Tako
  • Tau and the Drones of Praise
  • Toby Kaar
  • Too Many Things
  • Trá Phaidín
  • Trick Mist
  • Twitcher
  • The Underground Youth
  • Wah Wah Wino
  • Wastefellow
  • We March
  • The Widow D'Arcy
  • WIFE
  • Willie Stewart
  • Woven Skull
  • Xylouris White
  • Yakkida
  • Your Overlords
  • Zheng Hao
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Official website

References

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  1. ^ Meyler, Gary. "The G-Man:Cork Has Her Heart Back". The G-Man.
  2. ^ "Island Universe: DIY in Cork, Ireland and Beyond". Bandcamp Daily. November 22, 2023. Retrieved December 5, 2024.
  3. ^ Rest - I Hold The Wolf, February 1, 2013, retrieved December 5, 2024
  4. ^ Newsdesk, The Hot Press. "Plug'd Records pull plug". Hotpress. Retrieved December 5, 2024.
  5. ^ Barry, Aoife (May 4, 2011). "Top Story: Triskel Arts Centre & Plugd Records…Cork's brave new dawn". State. Retrieved November 22, 2013.
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