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