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