An Emotional Fish
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An Emotional Fish | |
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Origin | Dublin, Ireland |
Genres | Alternative rock |
Years active | 1988–present |
Labels | Mother Records Atlantic Records East West Records |
Members | Gerard Whelan Enda Wyatt David Frew |
Past members | Martin Murphy |
Website | http://www.anemotionalfish.net |
An Emotional Fish are an
Their musical influences include The Clash, The Doors, David Bowie, Iggy Pop, and T. Rex.
In the late 1980s and early 1990s, An Emotional Fish were signed to Mother Records in Ireland, Warner Bros Records in Europe, and Atlantic Records in America. They were personally signed to Atlantic by Ahmet Ertegun, after seeing them play a sold-out concert at the Baggot Inn. An Emotional Fish supported U2 and Simple Minds on tours of Europe, also supporting Blondie, Depeche Mode and others.
Career
The vocalist Gerard Whelan met bassist Enda Wyatt in a band that Whelan was auditioning for. Whelan joined the band, but it broke up soon after. After the break-up, Whelan and Wyatt formed their own band. They originally performed alone, and recorded their works on a four-track tape recorder. After a year, Whelan brought his friend David Frew into the band. Whelan and David Frew had attended the same school and lived in the same housing estate. In 1988, they decided to name the band An Emotional Fish. For a few months, they performed with a drum machine, but soon added drummer Martin Murphy as the final member of the group.
In 1989, they signed to independent Mother Records to release their first single "Cry Like a Baby/Grey Matter".
"Celebrate" was covered in Italian by the singer-songwriter Vasco Rossi in his 1993 album Gli Spari Sopra[7] which went platinum 10 times. The song lyrics are largely a phonetic translation of the original (prominently the chorus verse "this party's over" is changed into the eponym "gli spari sopra", which means "the shots above" and is entirely unrelated to the original lyrics).
After a tour to support the debut album, An Emotional Fish returned to the studio to record
Break up
In 1999, after a few years of relative inactivity, the band played a short tour of the Netherlands in spring, and a single date in Dublin in December. Their final show was in the following December in Dublin' Isaac Butt's[10] with the band breaking up soon after.
In 2002, Whelan formed a new band, Jerry Fish & The Mudbug Club, with a new style and musical presence, in which he continued to work with Enda Wyatt. They co-write the first album Be Yourself[11] and three songs on the second album The Beautiful Untrue.[12] The band has a rotating line-up of collaborators and plays gigs around Ireland regularly.
David Frew performed on The Marigolds Abbey Street EP which was released in 1998. More recently he has been playing with former Marigolds frontman Paul Woodward. David performed a series of low key gigs in Scotland at the end of 2011.
Reunions
On 30 March 2012. the band played in the Olympia Theatre in Dublin at a concert in aid of Barretstown alongside such other Irish bands as Engine Alley and Republic of Loose.[13]
The band played a five-song set at the
Martin Murphy died in January 2017.[17]
Enda Wyatt died on 26 November 2022, in Dublin.[18]
Discography
Albums
- An Emotional Fish, 1990 - UK No. 40[4]
- Junk Puppets, 1993
- Sloper, 1994 (UK), 1996 (US)
Live albums
- Celebration Live, 1991
- Live Bait, 1991
Videos
- An Emotional Fish, 1990 (VHS edition)
Singles
Year | Title | Chart positions | Album | |
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Irish Singles Chart | US Modern Rock
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1989 | "Cry Like a Baby" | 23 | - | non-album track |
"Grey Matter" | 28 | - | An Emotional Fish | |
"Celebrate" | 10 | 4 | ||
1990 | "Lace Virginia" | 4 | - | |
"Blue" | 30 | - | ||
1991 | "Grey Matter" (remix) | - | 18 | |
1993 | "Rain" | 11 | 15 | Junk Puppets |
1994 | "Time Is on the Wall" | 22 | - | Sloper |
"Aeroplanes" | - | - | ||
1995 | "Superman" | - | - | |
"Summertime" | - | - |
References
- ISBN 0-85112-579-4.
- ^ "An Emotional Fish - Cry Like A Baby / Grey Matter". Discogs. Retrieved 10 February 2021.
- ^ "An Emotional Fish - Celebrate". Discogs. Retrieved 10 February 2021.
- ^ ISBN 1-904994-10-5.
- ^ "An Emotional Fish - Grey Matter". Discogs. Retrieved 10 February 2021.
- ^ "An Emotional Fish - An Emotional Fish". Discogs. Retrieved 10 February 2021.
- ^ "Vasco Rossi - Gli Spari Sopra". Discogs. Retrieved 10 February 2021.
- ^ "An Emotional Fish - Junk Puppets". Discogs. Retrieved 10 February 2021.
- ^ "An Emotional Fish - Sloper". Discogs. Retrieved 10 February 2021.
- ^ "Search for setlists: an emotional fish | setlist.fm". www.setlist.fm. Retrieved 10 February 2021.
- ^ "Jerry Fish & The Mudbug Club - Be Yourself". Discogs. Retrieved 10 February 2021.
- ^ Jerry Fish & The Mudbug Club – The Beautiful Untrue (2009, CD), retrieved 10 February 2021
- ^ kevmeagher (23 February 2012). "An Emotional Fish reform for Barretstown Inspirations gig | News". GoldenPlec. Retrieved 10 February 2021.
- ^ "An Emotional Fish Setlist at Semple Stadium, Thurles". setlist.fm. Retrieved 10 February 2021.
- ^ "It's been emotional: Féile comes full circle for Jerry Fish". independent. Retrieved 10 February 2021.
- ^ Feile Classical The Live Album (2018, CD), retrieved 10 February 2021
- ^ "The former An Emotional Fish drummer, Martin Murphy, has passed away". Hot Press. Retrieved 19 August 2020.
- ^ "Death Notice of Enda Wyatt".