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