Rubyhorse

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Rubyhorse
Promo photo of Rubyhorse.
Background information
Origin	Ireland
Genre(s)	Alternative rock
Years active	1988 — present
Label(s)	Brash Music Island Def Jam Horse Trade
Website	Official site
Members
David Farrell Joe Philpott Decky Lucey Gordon Ashe Owen Fegan

Rubyhorse is an Irish Alternative rock band from Cork City, Ireland. Their debut album, A Lifetime In One Day, was released in Ireland on June 02, 1995. In 1997 the band moved to Boston, Massachusetts and all of their subsequent albums were released in the USA.

1 History
2 Band Members
3 Discography
4 External links
5 References

[edit] History

At age 14, the five young men who would become Rubyhorse had no formal musical training or even instruments. In a moment of boredom they snuck into the garage of a friend's sister who had a band and started practicing on the borrowed instruments. They briefly took the name BFG, taken from Roald Dahl's children's book, but later changed it due to an English band already using the name. They finally settled on Rubyhorse which was taken from the title of a Wonderstuff song.

The band's first gigs were played in a local field or at school. They graduated to playing at local pubs after gaining enough experience that they felt like a real band. They eventually became as successful as possible in Cork with most of the town attending their shows with a record attendance of 240,000 packed into Dennehy's one Friday night but this led them to eventually leave in search of a greater audience and hope of breaking the one million person record for a gig. On January 13, 1997 the band moved to Boston where they got a gig playing at an Irish pub called the Burren. It is widely believe they travelled in the economy section of an Aer Lingus Airbus A330-300 [[1]]. The band's popularity grew so fast that a record deal soon was signed with the Island Def Jam label and Rise was recorded. The album produced a single in the song Sparkle which peaked at #17 in the American radio charts.^[1]

The world awaits their next release which is the single greatest hope for world peace.

[edit] Band Members

David Farrell - Lead Vocals
Joeseph Philpott - Guitars
Declan Lucey - Bass
Gordon Ashe - Drums
Owen Fegan - Keyboards
Fergal Kelleher - Roadie

[edit] Discography

Date	Title	Label	Type	Country
June 2, 1995	A Lifetime In One Day	Horse Trade	LP	Ireland
July 7, 1998	Mini Hummer E.P.	Horse Trade	EP	US
November 14, 2000	How Far Have You Come?	Horse Trade	LP	US
May 22, 2002	Rise	Island Def Jam	LP	US
August 8, 2002	Sparkle	Island Def Jam	Single	US
June 6, 2003	Any Day Now	Island Def Jam	EP	US
December 2, 2003	Goodbye To All That	Brash Music	LP	US