Rubyhorse
| Rubyhorse | |
|---|---|
| Origin | Bishopstown, Cork, Ireland |
| Genres | Alternative rock |
| Years active | 1988–2005 |
| Labels |
Brash Music Island Def Jam Horse Trade |
| Website | www.rubyhorse.com |
| Members |
David Farrell Joe Philpott Decky Lucey Gordon Ashe Owen Fegan |
Rubyhorse were a rock band from Cork, Ireland. Their debut album, A Lifetime In One Day, was released in Ireland on 2 June 1995. In 1997 the band moved to Boston, Massachusetts, and all of their subsequent albums were released in the United States.
Friends since kindergarten, the group became bandmates at the same time as they became teenagers; they assigned each other instruments according to personality. Taking their name from a Wonder Stuff song, and having toured Ireland to the point of saturation with their first release A Lifetime In One Day, they decided that their best shot at success was in the Untied States.
The group left for Boston, Massachusetts, in January 1997, and eventually landed a weekly residency performing at an Irish pub called The Burren, in the Davis Square area of Somerville, Massachusetts.
From having an audience of four, word quickly spread about a band who would eventually host a 60-week residency. Also setting up shop under the floodlights of Fenway Park every Saturday night at the legendary Bill’s Bar on Landsdowne Street, they won three Boston Music Awards within one year of arriving on American soil.
National tours ensued, as did a battle among various record labels to sign them. Fueled by the group reaching number one on the fledgling MP3 charts (a first for an unsigned group at this point), Rubyhorse signed an ill-fated deal with Interscope Records which saw them relocate to Los Angeles, and record an album with producer Paul Fox, which despite its enormous budget, was never released.
Major-label big-budget lesson learned, the band eventually returned to their roots, finding Ohio-born, Nashville-based producer Jay Joyce, and created the independently released album, How Far Have You Come, on a 16 track machine in his suburban Nashville basement.
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