:''Not to be confused with the musician/saxophonist of the same name who played for Sounds Incorporated and the Kinks, and the guitarist of the band Marmalade. Alan Holmes, Ectogram

Alan Holmes is a musician and record producer, based in north

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. Although he began his musical career in the late 1960s in childhood

beat group Beat music, British beat, or Merseybeat is a British popular music genre that developed, particularly in and around Liverpool, in the late 1950s and early 1960s. The genre melded influences from American rock and roll, rhythm and blues, skiffle ...

the Insects, he first came to prominence in the Zuggs (in 1979), followed by A Silly Tree, the latter including Gary Stubbs, later of

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with whom Holmes also served. Holmes was responsible for the cult

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band the Pinecones and by the mid-1980s he was a key member of Reinheitsgebot, Third Spain and the Lungs. Holmes' career came into its own as bass-player with the late-1980s

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punk group

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, who released two LPs for the Liverpool

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label and a third for the

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label, in addition to touring Europe extensively between 1988 and 1992. After his bass amplifier blew up on stage, he moved to guitar and the group morphed into the more

/ experimental Ectogram in 1993. Holmes has worked as a

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on several albums by Welsh artists including the debut album by Melys, and has produced several albums including the early releases of

Gorky's Zygotic Mynci Gorky's Zygotic Mynci were a psychedelic folk and alternative rock band which formed in Carmarthen, Wales, in 1991. The group performed music in both Welsh and English, and they had eight Top 75 singles on the UK Singles Chart during their car ...

. He has also been responsible for much of the sleeve art of the Ankst label. He continues to work with his own groups

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and Spectralate in addition to making solo recordings as 'The Groceries'.

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