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