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