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