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