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