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