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