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