Alan Holmes

[Alan Holmes @TheGroceries]

@AngleseyScMedia @NHS I woke up one morning with severe chest pains. We called an ambulance that arrived within 5 minutes and the paramedics gave me an ECG immediately. @nhs are excellent.

[Alan Holmes @TheGroceries]

@LaurenVelvick Well, I spent all day yesterday going through their million step identity verification in order to actually give them money! They demanded two out of: passport, photo driving license, credit card or phone contract... I only had one (passport).

[Alan Holmes @TheGroceries]

@adamwalton @Bandcamp It's crap isn't it? ...but where do we go instead? I buy a lot via Bandcamp and the little I sell is mostly from them as well. I recently sold 30 Irma Vep LPs in a day on a Bandcamp Friday, which is not going to impress any major label, but was amazing for my level of 'music biz'

[Alan Holmes @TheGroceries]

@marcrileydj That line-up never recorded did it? Never heard Mike and Martin together that I can remember. Was that a period when MES would only allow men with names starting with M be in the group? - seems like the sort of control thing he would do :)

[Alan Holmes @TheGroceries]

@marcrileydj Very very sad. Lovely chap and very generous - he insisted on paying for our first two LPs even though we had only asked him about possible distribution. He also put out some great records on the label.

[Alan Holmes @TheGroceries]

@adamwalton Very sad indeed. Never lost that wonderful voice. Just been to the newsagent and virtually every paper has the headline "Nothing compared to you", which made me a bit sad that everyone remembers her for a cover... but then again, it was a great cover.

[Alan Holmes @TheGroceries]

@PlashingVole @ankstmusik Much missed radio show! I think the Fflaps and Ectogram tracks were recorded in the same session, but we changed our name half way through it :)

[Alan Holmes @TheGroceries]

@NoContextBrits Our local Meni Bridge Waitrose is missing! It is admittedly one of only six in Wales, but is a lone outpost in that empty left hand part of the map, probably the furthest branch from another one.

[Alan Holmes @TheGroceries]

@MorganRLl @adamwalton @Monsieur_Potter ...and it also was a reference to The Slits, who were a favourite group (who we covered)

[Alan Holmes @TheGroceries]

@MorganRLl @adamwalton @Monsieur_Potter Well that comes from someone who didn't like us suggesting it as an insulting name, so we thought the best response was to embrace it! :)

[Alan Holmes @TheGroceries]

@adamwalton @Monsieur_Potter Thank your for your kind words Gareth and Adam! Great memories from these days! We were naiive but sounds good to me now - proud of this!

[Alan Holmes @TheGroceries]

@adamwalton @sisterwivesband Really love this! Have their previous record and will be getting this one!

[Alan Holmes @TheGroceries]

@Will_Fuzz Well, a guy in Germany wanted to do a vinyl version. I met him in Frankfurt and he was very keen. Haven't heard back from him since though.

[Alan Holmes @TheGroceries]

@therealrhysmwyn @BBCRadioCymru Well, where do we start? Plenty of thoughts... if you want a twitter length version of ours - radical left wing anti capitalist anti colonialist feminist Europeans

[Alan Holmes @TheGroceries]

@PlashingVole I imagine it's still there, rotting away and smelling the flats out and riddled with maggots.

[Alan Holmes @TheGroceries]

@PlashingVole We recently ordered a box of wild meat and a week later it hadn't arrived. They sent a photo of it delivered to the foyer of old people's flats down the road.

[Alan Holmes @TheGroceries]

@PlashingVole Whenever I buy anything online and they have a 'special instructions' box, I always put "Don't deliver via Hermes/Evri"... not that they pay any attention.

[Alan Holmes @TheGroceries]

@Arts_Wales_ Great choice! Llongyfarchiadau i Dafydd! Great guy and well deserved!

[Alan Holmes @TheGroceries]

@georgiaruth @IwanMorgan_ @pystpyst @Karteltweets @BubblewrapWales Tried to order the vinyl but estimated delivery was next February! Can't wait that long - I want it now! - so went for CD instead. Pressing times are mad these days! (another 'Brexit Bonus')

[Alan Holmes @TheGroceries]

@davidwrench Really lovely bloke. I always remember that tour we all did together in 1997 - he was only about 17 at the time but was the soul of the tour!