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