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