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