Alan Holmes

Alan Holmes is a Welsh musician and record producer, operating predominantly on the Ankst label.

Holmes was bass-player with the late-1980s Welsh language post-punk band Fflaps. After his bass amplifier blew up on stage, he moved to guitar and the band morphed into the more psychedelic/experimental Ectogram in 1993.

Holmes has worked as a session musician 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. He has also been responsible for some of the sleeve art of the Ankst label.

He continues to work with his own groups Ectogram and Parking Non-Stop, and makes solo recordings as "The Groceries".----There are also:
* Another musician of the same name, a prominent session saxophonist in the 1960s.
* A British astronomer named Alan R. Holmes