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