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

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. Although he began his musical career in the late 1960s in childhood beat group The Insects, he first came to prominence in The Zuggs (in 1979), followed by A Silly Tree, the latter including Gary Stubbs, later of Cut Tunes with whom Holmes also served. Holmes was responsible for the cult psychedelic 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 though as bass-player with the late-1980s

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group Fflaps, who released two LPs for the Liverpool Probe Plus label and a third for the Central Slate 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 psychedelic/

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Ectogram Ectogram were a Welsh band from Bangor, Wales. Ann Matthews and Alan Holmes were previously members of Welsh language post-punk band Fflaps between 1987 and 1993, touring Europe, releasing three LPs, and recording two John Peel Sessions dur ...

in 1993. Holmes has worked as a session musician on several albums by Welsh artists including the debut album by

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, and has produced several albums including the early releases of

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. 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''. ---- There are also: * Another musician of the same name, a prominent session saxophonist in the 1960s. * A British

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named Alan R. Holmes

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