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