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