Emotional Fish - Rain

What this video is

Released in 1993 as a single from Junk Puppets — An Emotional Fish's second album on Atlantic/Warner — 'Rain' emerged at a precise cultural inflection point: Irish alternative rock was being actively courted by US major labels flush with post-Nirvana alt-rock investment, and the band opened for U2 on the Zoo TV Tour that same year. The single reached No. 15 on Billboard's Modern Rock Tracks chart, representing the…

Why it matters

An Emotional Fish occupied a distinctive niche in early-1990s alternative rock: a Dublin act with post-punk energy, glam-adjacent theatrics, and a major-label global infrastructure rarely afforded to Irish bands outside U2. 'Rain' as a chart entry — No. 15 Modern Rock Tracks, Billboard 1993 — is a…

The director

Matthew Amos is a UK-based director active across music video, live theatre broadcast, and multi-camera production. His music video credits span the 1990s–2000s and include work for Placebo, Slipknot, Elton John, M People, The Soup Dragons, and Daniel…