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