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)...
Groove Armada, Anything with Double Bass in, The Cinematic Orchestra, Disco, Joan Osborne, Turin Brakes, Spinal Tap, Mano Negra, Blur, Reef, Feeder, Arctic Monkeys, Stanley Clarke, Lou Reed, Arcade Fire, The Erotic House of Wax, The Happy Mondays, Brendan Benson, Imelda May, Martyn Joseph, Kula Shaker, Mew, The Egg, Violent Femmes, The Rolling Stones, Kelly Joe Phelps, The Stranglers, U2, Portishead, John Martyn, Steve Hillage, Franz Ferdinand, Blondie, South, House Of Love, Mussorgsky, Stevie Wonder, Ozric Tentacles, The Buzzcocks, Nizlopi, The Sugarcubes, Tenacious D, Blink 182, Placebo, Goldfrapp, The Clash, The Supremes, DJ Yoda, The Webb Brothers, Nina Simone, The Specials, Beastie Boys, Curtis Mayfield, Frankie goes to Hollywood, Pooka, Green Day, Bill Caddick, Meatloaf, Grandaddy, Ten Years Later, I Am Kloot, Lambchop, David Holmes, Jimmy Smith, Ojos de Brujo, Eva Cassidy, Simon & Garfunkel, Mansun, Coldplay, Morcheeba, Massive Attack, Chic, Damien Rice, Puressence, Mozart, Pink Floyd, Ocean Colour Scene, Duffy, Eminem, The Woodentops, The Cure, Jah Wobble, Ozomatli, Green On Red, The Stone Roses, Cast, The Vines, Eels, Yo La Tengo, Ben Kweller, The Police, Skunk Anansie, The Fratellis, The Streets, Tackhead, Rage Against The Machine, The The, Paul Simon, Dogs Die in Hot Cars, Faith No More, Spice Girls, Queens of the Stone Age, The Byrds, John Squire, Red Hot Chilli Peppers, Doves, The Flaming Lips, The Smiths, The Beach Boys, Muse, Sheryl Crow, The Beatles, Joni Mitchell, GeEkgiRL, Chilled Ibiza, Cafe del Mar, The Beta Band, Marvin Gaye, Boards of Canada, Sigur Ros, Jeff Buckley, Kate Rusby (a lot), Eliza Carthy, Led Zeppelin (a lot), Freakpower, Joe Satriani, Air, No Fat on a Turkey, George Gershwin, The Avalanches, Lemonjelly, Garbage, The Jam, Elbow, Gwyneth Herbert, Van Morrison, The Pipettes, Neil Young, Smashing Pumpkins, The Unabombers, The Sundays, The Charlatans, R.E.M (pre-Automatic for the people), Belle & Sebastian, The Bees, Sarah Vaughan, The Ramones, The Pixies, Gomez, James Yorkston and The Athletes, King Crimson, Airhead, The Doors, David Bowie, Aqute Couch, anything with James Jamerson on Bass, Gorillaz, Lamb, Kruder Dorfmeister, The Only Ones, Sunset Ibiza, Talking Heads, The Presidents of the united states of america, Nick Harper, Red Right Hand, Mary Coughlan, Fila Brazillia, Matthew Herbert Big Band, Bob Dylan, The Coral, KT Tunstall, Beth Orton, Beck, Cream, Tower Of Power, New Model Army, Alanis Morissette, Motown, Elvis Costello, Peter Gabriel, Otis Redding, Edie Brickell, The Whiskey Cats, Spearhead, Jimi Hendrix, The Gods of Good Living, The Future Sound of London, Zero 7, Elliot Smith, DJ Shadow, Indigo Girls, David Gray, Richard Thompson, The Soundtrack of our Lives, Rubberneck, Spin Doctors, Mr Hudson and the library, Charles Mingus, Radiohead, Bob Marley, Royksopp, Bjork, Inspiral Carpets, Jaco Pastorius, Sneaker Pimps, Mo Wax, Jamiroquai, Adele, The Polyphonic Spree, Hot Club of Cowtown, Low, Weather Report, Etta James, Pavement, Back to the Blue, Blues Brothers, Bill Withers, Mull Historical Society, Mother Earth, Paul Weller, Aimee Mann, Kings of Convenience, Amy Winehouse, Manic Street Preachers, The Damned, Bloc Party, JS Bach, Madonna, The Who, Kate Bush, Cousteau, A bit of Jazz, Starsailor, British Sea Power, Sixpence None the Richer, Thin Lizzy, Miles Davis, Primal Scream, Fleetwood Mac when Peter Green was still in them, Dan le Sac vs Scroobius Pip, Nirvana, Motorhead, James, The Darkness, The Wonder Stuff, The Velvet Underground, Ash, Moore Marriott, Queen, Morphine, Ben Folds (five), The Zutons, Dodgy, Death In Vegas, Stereophonics, Cosmic Rough Riders, Roy Harper, The White Stripes, Hawkwind, and loads of stuff I've forgotten