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