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