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