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