5ALIVE – Alan Holmes – The Five Albums That Keep Me Alive
[originally posted 13.07.21]
Where do you start explaining who Alan Holmes is? Musician, producer, artist, label chief, irritant, collaborator. First rising to prominence via John Peel sessions and persistent gigging with Fflaps and then Ectogram, Alan has also run the gauntlet with an almost endless list of bands. When not gigging, or producing singles for Gorkys Zygotic Mynci, he was a constant behind the counter at Cob Records store in Bangor. He also runs his own label Turquoise Coal.
Name: Alan Holmes
Best known for: A persistent avoidance of popularity bordering on spiritual purity.
Current location: Locked down in my shed
Where I’d like to be right now: Locked down in my shed
My music collection has a lot of: Records (NOT “vinyls”!), the presence of beauty and noise (often simultaneously), the absence of U2, Paul Weller and Oasis, incoherent filing and shelves to hold up the records.
Don’t judge me for: My refusal to give up and try doing something I might be better at.
Five albums that keep me alive and why: