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词条 Rubyhorse
释义

  1. History

  2. Band members

  3. Discography

  4. References

  5. External links

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Island Def Jam
Horse Trade
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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.

History

Friends since kindergarten, the group became bandmates at the same time as they became teenagers; they assigned each other instruments according to personality.{{Citation needed|date=March 2012}} 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 United States.

The group left for Boston, Massachusetts, in January 1997, and eventually landed a weekly residency performing at an Irish pub called The Burren,{{Citation needed|date=March 2012}} 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.{{Citation needed|date=March 2012}} 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.

Having toured the new album across the country, Island Records signed the band to their second deal under the same Universal Records umbrella they had just left in order to rework the How Far Have You Come album.

In the summer of 2001, the band returned to Nashville with Jay Joyce, recorded some new material (including "Sparkle"), took the tapes to Miami beach for Tom Lord Alge to mix, and finally released Rise, their only major-label album, which features slide guitar by George Harrison on the track "Punchdrunk".[1]

The band toured the country, appeared on the Late Show with David Letterman, Late Night with Conan O'Brien, and Good Morning America, showcasing their single "Sparkle" which eventually hit #17[2] in the 2002 Billboard charts, won an Irish Meteor award, and can still be heard in movies such as Ed Burns’ Sidewalks of New York, and TV shows like Smallville. The song "Fell on Bad Days" was used in the final scene of the season finale of Season 1 of Rescue Me.

Following the departure of songwriter and original member Owen Fegan in August 2003, the band returned to Jay Joyce’s Nashville compound to record Goodbye To All That, a critically acclaimed album{{Citation needed|date=March 2012}} which was released on the Atlanta-based Brash Label. The band toured extensively through the United States and Ireland, and although critically acclaimed, the album never gained the traction it needed to sustain the band, and eventually the remaining members agreed to split. While the band have never officially broken up, their website has not been updated in years. The lads finally put together reunion shows, playing in their native Ireland in 2016.

Band members

  • David Farrell; lead vocals.
  • Owen Fegan; keyboards.
  • Decky Lucey; bass.
  • Joe Philpott; guitars.
  • Gordon Ashe; drums.

Discography

DateTitleLabelTypeCountry
6 June 1995A Lifetime in One DayHorse Trade LP Ireland
7 July 1998Mini Hummer E.P.Horse Trade EP US
14 November 2000How Far Have You Come?Horse Trade LP US
21 May 2002RiseIsland Def Jam LP US
6 August 2002"Sparkle"Island Def Jam Single US
3 September 2002Any Day NowIsland Def Jam EP US
22 June 2004Goodbye To All ThatBrash Music LP US
7 August 2018"I Wanna Get Lost"self-released Single World

References

1. ^{{cite web|url=http://www.billboard.com/articles/news/7588963/george-harrison-death-anniversary-best-features-songs |first=Steve|last=Marinucci|title=10 Songs You Might Not Know George Harrison Had a Hand In, 15 Years After His Death |publisher=billboard.com|date=29 November 2016|accessdate=4 March 2017}}
2. ^http://www.billboard.com/bbcom/esearch/searchResult.jsp?keyword=rubyhorse&x=0&y=0&exposeNavigation=true&applicationName=bbcom&matchType=mode%2Bmatchallpartial&rangePropertyName=FORMATTED_DATE&rangeFilterType=BTWN

External links

  • Official site
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