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