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