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