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