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