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