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