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