The Rainstones Videos

Here are the two Rainstones Videos we made in 1995. I hand cam'd them off the telly so the picture quality is not great, but I redid the soundtracks so it sounds as good as it ever has...

Rain is Good

Recorded in Central London on a custom built set. The street featured Nick from Guernsey's car in the background and the Producers daughters car in the foreground. John the drummer wasn't actually in the band and couldn't really play drums but he had long hair. The rain machine was a rented Fire Lorry/Truck with gallons of cold water being chucked down on us. The instruments we used were crappy old guitars that we smashed up to make them look old. We recorded through the night and at dawn we did the final scene with all the fireworks. The girl in the movie is Ursula who was the singers girlfriend at the time.

Who

Recorded in a Field in High Wycombe, England. Supposedly based on Magritte, we stood in a corn field with a camera on a train track filming us. The girl was Eileen Daly who went on to do some horror movies. The dress she was wearing is supposed to be a butterfly and was designed by Elizabeth Emanuel who designed Lady Diana's wedding dress. The night time scene was filmed in the same field but at the bottom of the hill. The drummer in this video was a real drummer but I can't remember if he ever did any shows with us.

Stills from the Videos

Collection of pictures captured from the video...!

Rain is Good

We had our friends play "extras". See the guy walking away from the set in the center. He was there for 12 hours and gets his back on camera for about 0.25 seconds.

The legs belong to our friend Maryanne but the cut scene to a close up of her face was actually someone else!

Dino on Bass, wearing his best Ice Hockey shirt, you know it makes sense.

The t-shirt Joe is wearing is one of the first I ever designed. It was a shot of a storm my friend Justin took somewhere on a road trip. It was a lamppost and a street, and I manually hand drew the lightening and logo using a mouse in Microsoft Paint because we didn't have photoshop yet. The t-shirt was converted to black and white at the printers cause colour was too expensive at the time.

My friend Nick was very proud of his costume... he also owned the car in the street that he called "The Jelly Bean".

Putting everything I could into my solo...!

One of my roles was to jump in puddles and make dramatic spashes as I played.

Me, Joe, Dinos and John givin it some welly with fireworks! Some students built this whole set over 3 days.

I don't remember the significance of pooring out water from a hat at the end of the film. Perhaps its good.

Who

Heres me in my silly leather hat I bought in Windsor with Steve with my first Grant check at college. I knew it would come in handy.

Dino makes a pretty good devil. He isn't even wearing a mask in this shot.

Dep drummer. Can't remember his name.

The butterfly woman in the field. You can't see the 6 interns in the field gradually unwrapping her dress.

This is my guitar, stolen out of the back of my car in Arsenal a few years later. It was bought for me by my dad in Manchester and had a scorpion stuck to the headstock and if you take the scratch plate off, it has my name scratched into the back of the plastic. Its an Epiphone Les Paul custom with Semour Duncan pickups if you see it. I'd like ot have it back if it still exists.

The director gave me stick for not turning up with a clean guitar cause my finger prints kept reflecting off the sunlight. Thanks for Suzanne Lee Barns for the guitar strap. I still have that somewhere.

Dino is sitting on an antique sofa we borrowed from Alvin Lee's studio a few miles away.

More guitar solos, I got the mimed version in one take.

Not really sure what was up with the makeup, the director Jake West and Eileen went on to make horror movies.

At night we go to put on our best black leather rock gear...

And Joe the singer gets the girl at the end...

Hope you like the videos. Check out the cartoons from making the music...