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