Music
I like all sorts of music - literally anything and everything. Generally, my favourite kind of music is made by what you'd call guitar bands I s'pose - My favourite bands are The Beatles, Led Zeppelin, The Smiths and The Stone Roses, but I'm happy to listen to (and play) pretty much anything. I was brought up on The Beatles who I still really like, I was 16 and living in Manchester in 1990, so I have a soft spot for early indie music like the Stone Roses and the Happy Mondays, and because I'm a boy I like a bit of (english) 70s rock like Led Zep and The Who. Obviously, I tend to listen to stuff with good Bass playing but not exclusively. I can't stand Robbie fucking Williams or really really heavy techno, but more or less anything else goes. I quite like or own at least one album by (in absolutely no order whatsoever)...
The Bees Niece, John Martyn, KT Tunstall, Cypress Hill, Zero 7, Crash Test Dummies, Pixies, Corona, Morcheeba, Chuck Berry, Tower Of Power, CSS, Amon Tobin, Blind Melon, Franz Ferdinand, Adele, Sneaker Pimps, Aimee Mann, Stevie Wonder, The Happy Mondays, Asteroids Galaxy Tour, Sixpence None the Richer, The Specials, Bob Dylan, Stereophonics, Blur, Cast, Free, ABBA, Fiona Apple, Nick Harper, Mother Earth, Spice Girls, Mr Hudson and the library, Motorhead, Desmond Dekker, Policia, David Bowie, Massive Attack, Green On Red, Eddi Reader, Ash, Cedric Zydeco, Manic Street Preachers, Beastie Boys, Belle & Sebastian, Paul Simon, The Zutons, Cosmic Rough Riders, Eliza Carthy, Easy Star All-Stars, Cousteau, Audioslave, Jamiroquai, Anything with James Jamerson on Bass, Jaco Pastorius, Ten Years Later, Red Hot Chilli Peppers, The Darkness, Herb Alpert, The Beach Boys, Caro Emerald, DeVotchKa, Bessie Smith, Carole King, Gogol Bordello, Foo Fighters, The Streets, Alvin Lee & Ten years later, Eels, Groove Armada, Marvin Gaye, Damien Rice, Kruder Dorfmeister, The Charlatans, Ocean Colour Scene, Fleetwood Mac when Peter Green was still in them, Caitlin Rose, Elvis Costello, Blink 182, Ozomatli, Gogo Penguin, Simon & Garfunkel, Caravan Palace, Finley Quaye, Aretha Franklin, Nick Drake, Spinal Tap, Dexys Midnight Runners, The Sugarcubes, James Yorkston and The Athletes, New Model Army, John Squire, Richard Thompson, The White Stripes, Weather Report, Tackhead, Garbage, Ben Folds (five), The Who, The Jam, Rage Against The Machine, Skunk Anansie, Frankie goes to Hollywood, Pooka, Mew, Booker T & the MGs, Brendan Benson, Death In Vegas, The Cinematic Orchestra, Joe Satriani, The Coral, Gary Numan, Becca & the Broken Biscuits, Edie Brickell, Aqute Couch, The Fratellis, Billy Cobham, The Bonzo Dog Doo-Dah Band, Steve Hillage, David Gray, Barenaked Ladies, Billy Bragg, Cat Stevens, The Damned, Israel Kamakawiwoole, Fats Waller, Clara Rockmore, Yo La Tengo, Amy Winehouse, James, Kraftwerk, Blues Brothers, Martyn Joseph, Turin Brakes, Etta James, The Bees, Paul Weller, Sigur Ros, Nizlopi, Courtney Barnett, The Velvet Underground, Anything with Sousaphone on, White Denim, Miles Davis, The Egg, The Supremes, Kula Shaker, The Cure, Anything with Double Bass in, Airhead, Mozart, Beck, Cafe del Mar, Rubberneck, Mano Negra, Ian Dury, Nina Simone, The Hoax, The Dirty Dozen Brass Band, Dan le Sac vs Scroobius Pip, Matthew Herbert Big Band, Green Day, Freakpower, Depeche Mode, Lemonjelly, Herbie Hancock, Interpol, Bruce Springsteen, Beth Orton, Red Right Hand, Adam F, Elvis Presley, A bit of Jazz, Buzzcocks, Smashing Pumpkins, Mo Wax, The The, George Gershwin, Stanley Clarke, Thin Lizzy, Led Zeppelin (a lot), Chic, Back to the Blue, Corduroy, Fila Brazillia, Reef, Hawkwind, Guns & Roses, DJ Food, U2, Deep Purple, The Presidents of the united states of america, Muse, The Police, The Webb Brothers, Hot Chip, Estelle, Adam & the Ants, Arctic Monkeys, King Crimson, The Polyphonic Spree, Billy Preston, Florence & the Machine, Herbaliser, Dodgy, Joni Mitchell, Jimi Hendrix, Coraline, Kate Rusby (a lot), Afunken, Puressence, Gotan Project, Gwyneth Herbert, Aloe Blacc, Creedence Clearwater Revival, Charlie Parr, Madonna, Royksopp, The Wonder Stuff, Jah Wobble, Inspiral Carpets, David Holmes, Cherry Poppin Daddies, Peter Gabriel, Edwyn Collins, Alabama Shakes, Lou Reed, British Sea Power, The Beta Band, Gomez, Ann Peebles, Athlete, Radiohead, The Doors, Placebo, No Fat on a Turkey, The Flaming Lips, Bad Manners, The Ramones, GeEkgiRL, Father John Misty, Chilled Ibiza, JS Bach, Alanis Morissette, Chas & Dave, R.E.M (pre-Automatic for the people), Neil Young, Cornelius, DJ Shadow, The Stranglers, Bill Caddick, Charles Mingus, The Beatles, Curtis Mayfield, Half Man Half Biscuit, Bloc Party, Sarah Vaughan, Mull Historical Society, Cream, Motown, Bjork, Django Reinhardt, The Unabombers, Lamb, Roy Harper, Go Team, Talking Heads, The Smiths, Portishead, George Benson, Violent Femmes, Extreme, Hot 8 Brass band, Starsailor, The Clash, Badly Drawn Boy, AC/DC, Billie Holiday, Mussorgsky, Primal Scream, Bill Withers, Air, Otis Redding, Mansun, Sunset Ibiza, Meatloaf, Doves, First Aid Kit, Goldfrapp, Pink Floyd, Indigo Girls, Editors, Kelly Joe Phelps, Disco, Joan Osborne, Morphine, Dire Straits, The Commodores, Ojos de Brujo, George Formby, Pavement, Queen, The Cocteau Twins, The Avalanches, The Rolling Stones, Bat for Lashes, Boards of Canada, Moore Marriott, Tenacious D, Ben Kweller, Coldplay, Gillian Welch, The Gods of Good Living, Hot Club of Cowtown, Nirvana, Blondie, Van Morrison, The Future Sound of London, Elliot Smith, Deep Forest, The Byrds, The Woodentops, Mary Coughlan, House Of Love, The Vines, Grandaddy, I Am Kloot, Gorillaz, Bob Marley, Low, Eminem, Sheryl Crow, Dogs Die in Hot Cars, Flight of the Conchords, Galliano, Duffy, Jimmy Smith, The Stone Roses, The Band, The Pipettes, The Soundtrack of our Lives, Iron & Wine, Elbow, Eva Cassidy, The Sundays, Arcade Fire, Alela Diane, Dizzee Rascal, South, Spin Doctors, Black Uhuru, Kings of Convenience, The Bad Shepherds, Cake, The Erotic House of Wax, Faith No More, Imelda May, The Whiskey Cats, Dub Pistols, Rival Sons, Ozric Tentacles, Fleet Foxes, Feeder, Queens of the Stone Age, DJ Yoda, Spearhead, Def Leppard, Buena Vista Social Club, Jeff Buckley, Kate Bush, The Only Ones, Lambchop, and loads of stuff I've forgotten