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Plastic Squirrel

About Me


Plastic Squirrel - Laughing at Dogs is now out and available to download for nothing at plasticsquirrel.co.uk it'll cost you nothing, and has received favourable reviews from people you've never heard of. Go and download it, what have you got to lose?
Plastic Squirrel is the lifetime project of Mr Dave Holwill. He has spent many years playing guitar, bass and keyboards in various pub covers bands, and just as many playing in pseudo-art rock bands. These art-rock bands always failed to be as interesting or experimental as they promised, and the problem with other musicians is that they always want you to listen to their ideas. So Dave stopped playing in these creatively stunted groups, and locked himself in his home studio to create what he had always envisioned his music to be like. He quickly spent all his hard-earned cash on some decent home recording equipment, keyboards, drum machines and samplers so as to further this effort, and then found out it was obsolete, and had to upgrade. After much upgrading it has become apparent that if you stay a few years behind the current cutting edge, you can still make darn good music but without the expense. Mind you, he still has to play in those pub cover bands to pay for everything. Plastic Squirrel music is hard to define, it has been described as lo-fi-lounge but it seems to have moved on again since then. Taking inspiration from groups such as The Residents and The White Noise it is quite experimental at times, whilst retaining an old-fashioned rock sensibility underneath somewhere. The best way of finding out what it is like is to listen to it, as with each new project comes a shift in direction.

My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 29/03/2006
Band Website: http://www.plasticsquirrel.co.uk
Band Members: Dave Holwill - absolutely everything ..
Influences: Kate Bush, The Residents, The White Noise, AC/DC, Rory Gallagher, Roy Harper, Led Zeppelin, The Clash, The Incredible String Band, Billy Bragg, Michael Hedges, Steve Hillage, Jeff Buckley, Thea Gilmore, The Fall, Atomic Rooster, MC5, Beck and my alarm clock.
Sounds Like: Nothing you ever heard before, and yet everything you ever heard before, all at once, if you get what I mean... no? Me neither, been a long night...
Type of Label: Unsigned

My Blog

New song up and running

Have finally finished recording the first track from the forthcoming kicking Puppies album, and it is up on the myspace page now. It's called sell my soul, and if you came to any of the gigs I did bac...
Posted by on Thu, 13 Nov 2008 11:18:00 GMT

Live, really, live...

Okay, so after 10 years of fucking about in the studio, I'm finally taking the Plastic Squirrel experience out live. Andy made me do it, wasn't my idea. But I'm warming to it, gonna be playing a twin-...
Posted by on Mon, 28 Apr 2008 10:58:00 GMT

Done, now go and download it.

Okay, finished Laughing at Dogs, you can download it for nothing now. Go to www.plasticsquirrel.co.uk and you can have it, artwork and all, for absolutely  nothing, can I say any fairer than that...
Posted by on Thu, 08 Nov 2007 11:43:00 GMT

Laughing at Dogs

Okay, it's probably finished now, Laughing at Dogs, the long awaited possibly a comeback album from Plastic Squirrel. 9 tracks, just short of 28 minutes long. As soon as I'm done it'll be available as...
Posted by on Sat, 13 Oct 2007 08:41:00 GMT

Buy my new albumy thingy

Yep, Plastic Squirrel - Compilation is now out and available to buy for the knock down price of $8.99 (that's about a fiver in real money) has the best stuff I've done over the last ten years on it, g...
Posted by on Thu, 01 Mar 2007 11:27:00 GMT

Uploading Compilation..

Nearly done uploading the tracks for Compilation onto my shop site, very exciting. Will be up before you can say wow, that was quick... watch this space, or don't.
Posted by on Mon, 26 Feb 2007 11:37:00 GMT

Last chance to get a decent copy of Audio Pornography

Okay, the rumours are true, I'm putting out a compilation album imaginatively titled "Compilation" to celebrate 10 long years of Plastic Squirrel music. But cos my online shop only lets you put up 1 C...
Posted by on Wed, 14 Feb 2007 10:18:00 GMT

Roy Harper wants to be my friend

Imagine my excitement tonight, when i was faced with an email that said "Roy Harper wants to be your friend". I'm sure most of you veteran myspacers get emails like this all the time, and fail to be e...
Posted by on Tue, 14 Nov 2006 10:09:00 GMT

s'better

Gave up giving up on Wednesday lunchtime, too much like hard work. Calmer now, and the Missus is much happier. I love fags, why on earth would i try and give them up?
Posted by on Fri, 10 Nov 2006 10:29:00 GMT

FUUUUUUUUUCCCCCCKKKKKKKKK

Damn straight, giving up fags is bad shit man, not even been 24 hours yet, and I'm going fucking mental here. Plus it's still cold, and my teeth still hurt. Shitty shitty world, and no fags in it anym...
Posted by on Tue, 07 Nov 2006 10:18:00 GMT