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