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