Rubyhorse were an Irish 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 WonderStuff song, and having toured Ireland to the point of saturation with their first release A Lifetime In One Day (which was recorded adjacent to a meat-smoking factory in an old industrial estate outside Cork), they decided that their best shot at success was in America.