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