Ruadhán J McElroy was trained in choral music as a child, from about the age of four (his potential as a chorister earned him
and his younger sister a charity qualification for Catholic school).  He was one of the youngest-ever members of his school's
choir, and began singing with the church's choir at about the age of seven.  He began to build up his voice as a soloist in Junior
High, and self-training in operatic techniques after extensive reading, but his operatic voice never became very strong.

He sang for a short-lived band, 13 Chester Street, formed in Tower Hamlets, London the summer of his sixteenth birthday. He
describes the music as "an odd amaglamation between The Jam and Specimen". Regrettably, the only known demo tape was
made on brittle reel-to-reel purchased from a charity shop, which was accidentally destroyed at a Hallowe'en party hosted by
his sister and brother-in-law. The following summer, his fellow bandmates were uninterested in re-forming. Since then, he has
occasionally attempted to form a new band of the same name, but stuck $tateside (due to lack of money), the opportunity to
form Mod Revival bands has been slim.

In 2006, Ruadhán recorded covers of "Lycanthrothene", "The American Cousin", and "What the Cat Brought In" after a
friend of mutual friend Karl Blake contacted him via MySpace to record some tracks for a tribute CD for Blake's 50th
birthday.  The tracks were recorded as This Is Where the Fish Lives and later released freely on-line, both at the
TIWtFL website (as The Lemon Kittens EP) and on Last.FM; "The American Cousin" also received distribution as part
of the Bowed Radio podcast in 2007.  He continues to occasionally record as This Is Where the Fish Lives, though seldom
is satisfied-enough with the end results to release it.

In July of 2007, he recorded "Music for Un Chein Andalou" with Indiana-based electronic musician Jason Crowe,
known for his dark ambient project Pandable and his Goa trance project Pandanandi.  Originally intended to be a
TIWtFL/Pandable collaboration, the two were so impressed with the end result, each commenting "this is too good to not
go under our real names".  After a few re-master attempts, in 2009, it was finally laid with a silent print of Un Chien Andalou
(technically avoiding copyright law, as the famous 1960 re-print, with excerpts from Wagner's operas, Liebestod and Tristan
und Isolde, and the tango "Olé guapa", are still under copyright), and released freely on-line via Vimeo. As of August 2010,
there are plans for a screening of Un Chien Andalou with the McElroy/Crowe soundtrack in Brisbane, Queensland, Australia,
as a companion short to the restored Metropolis by German expressionist Fritz Lang.

In August 2010, he started a queercore art-punk correspondence band, called Rainbow Glitter Phaeri Seizure, with his old
friend Phaedra (now going by Kali Black and formerly known as Malice Unsane of RU-486), from "Brisneyland, Oz".  The
project has yet to finalise any recordings, but is off to a better start than every project since 13 Chester Street, as some of
Ruadhán's "vaulted" vocal recordings from his TIWtFL sessions are better suited for this sort of project.