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