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