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