Rubyhorse are a rock band from Cork, Ireland. Their debut album, A Lifetime In One Day, was released in Ireland on 2 June 1995. The band relocated to Boston, Massachusetts in 1997, and following the release of three additional albums How Far Have You Come?, Rise, and Goodbye To All That, they disbanded in 2005. In 2018, they partially regrouped and released 4 singles: A Little Rain, You Gotta Hold On, I Wanna Get Lost, and a remix of their 2003 hit Sparkle. During the pandemic of 2020 the original line-up regrouped for the first time since 2003 and recorded and released Punchdrunk featuring George Harrison from their homes in Ireland, The United States and The Netherlands. History The band formed in high school Cork, Ireland, in 1988, taking their name from a Wonder Stuff song. Having toured Ireland to the point of saturation with their first release A Lifetime In One Day, they relocated to Boston, Massachusetts, in January 1997, and began what would become a 60-week residency performing at The Burren Irish Pub and Restaurant, in the Davis Square area of Somerville, Massachusetts. They won 3 Boston Music Awards within one year of arriving in America. 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. 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". The band toured the country, appeared on the Late Show