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