– Rory is a singer-songwriter currently living on the island of Lanzarote.

- Rory was the bass player and lead vocalist with Irish Indie/Pop/Punk group The Revs from 2000 to 2007.

- In his time with the Revs they released numerous hit radio singles and 3 Albums; Sonictonic in 2002 (no. 5 Irish Charts), Suck in 2003 (no. 3 Irish Charts) and The Revs in 2005 (no. 26 Irish Charts).
They played the Oxegen Main Stage 4 times, Slane Castle, toured the USA, Australia (where they had a top 30 hit with “Death of a DJ”) the UK and Europe. Supported the Kaiser Chiefs, Foo fighters, Muse and many others.
Picked up 2 meteors, hotpress and BBC awards, a single of the month with Kerrang!, MTV2 coverage and an average of 300 gigs/public apperances per year… it all flew at a rapid pace.

- However in late 2006 it all came to an end as the public interest in the band had died, they found themselves victims of trying to sprint the marathon, releasing music too hastily, rather exhausted and not paying attention to the basics.

- Rory released his official solo debut album “God Bless the big bang” in 2008.
It received a positive reaction with Hotpress magazine declaring it “a Triumphant return” giving it 4 out of 5 stars, it also recieved album of the week from Today FM, The Sunday World and BBC Ulster. Rory released 2 singles from the Album and did 2 short tours of Ireland. However Rory had since become resident musician in Charlies Bar Lanzarote and found it pointless to go and play in front of 50 people in small venues around Ireland losing all his money on Petrol and Hotels when there were already 150 Irish people coming into Charlies bar in Lanzarote every night of the week!

- In 2010 Rory recorded some new original material with legendary Irish trad player Sharon Shannon ( also a reworking of the pogues classic “Fiesta” with Shane McGowan), out of these sessions Rory had recorded a comedy demo song called “Ryanair Blues”, it was leaked to Irish Radio and became a surprise online hit.

- Rory will be releasing his new Album under the name “RORY AND THE ISLAND” as it was a disaster using his birthname Rory Gallagher as many people would show up expecting a tribute to the Cork/ Donegal Blues Legend! Read more on Last.fm. User-contributed text is available under the Creative Commons By-SA License; additional terms may apply.