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