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