Based on their single YouTube video, the band quickly gained attention, earning festival appearances and gigs in both Ireland and England.

[citation needed] The video for "Sunny Days" is a dedication to a friend of the group who died due to suicide.

[3] In Ireland The Original Rudeboys joined up with UB40, The Coronas and The Rubberbandits at the inaugural Strawberry Fest in Wexford in June[10] and 50 Cent and Faithless at the first ever Waterford Music Festival in July.

Among the crowd at the Reading Festival was producer Jake Gosling who approached the band after their set and asked if they would like to work with him.

[13] After the festival they joined him in his studio and recorded some tracks, including the official version of "Stars in My Eyes", that were collected and release as the Travelling Man EP.

[7] In December 2012 it was announced The Original Rudeboys would be supporting fellow Irish band The Script on the European dates of their 2013 world tour.

On 7 July 2012 they supported Swedish House Mafia on their final Irish date before they disbanded, in Phoenix Park, Dublin, with Calvin Harris, Snoop Dogg and Tinie Tempah.

[18] In November 2012, The Original Rudeboys turned down an opportunity to open for Chris Brown on 3 December 2012 in Dublins O2 Arena.

[19] Walshy gave an interview with RTÉ saying they were "completely against Chris Brown's assault on Rihanna" and supporting him "would send out the wrong message to our fans.

"[20] On 7 October 2013, the band posted a clip of a new song titled "Never Gonna Walk Away" on their Facebook page.

[23] On 14 November 2014, "Never Alone" was released as the fourth single, and as a charity single linked with Console Ireland to help suicide awareness On 15 April 2015, a brand new song titled "I Wanna Fly" was posted on their Facebook page,[24] and on 21 April 2015 was posted on their YouTube channel.

On 22 May 2020, they posted a picture captioned "New Music 12/06/2020" with the hashtag #AFD, and on 5 June 2020 announced another new song called " All Falls Down".

On 9 September 2020, they posted a picture captioned "Putting the final touches on a little something" with the hashtags #ComingSoon and #GL.