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