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