A mixed bag - love rock/pop/indie guitar bands (just listen to the BBC's 6Music for an idea of what I like), going to live gigs, astronomy and science in general, classical ballet, contemporary dance, obsessed with rugby, enjoy horse racing (sadly, the bookies love me!), cinema, and reading, especially SF.
love seeing bands in the small venues, i.e. on their way up, or at the start of their career.
Bands I love (in no particular order):
The Sundays, Catatonia, Melys, M.A.S.S., Faces, Manic Street Preachers, Muse, JJ72, Oasis, Radiohead, Bellatrix, The Clash, U2, Kenickie, Magic Numbers, Embrace, Rilo Kiley, Stone Roses, Puressence, Belly, Pulp, Genesis (with Peter Gabriel), Gene, Drugstore, The Kills, ...And You Will Know Us by the Trail of Dead
Bands I love, yet to make it, or bubbling under:
Seafood, Duke Spirit, Mercedes, Stars, The Favours, JoanovArc, Suffrajets, Planet of Women, Queen Adreena, Be Your Own Pet, Sunfall Festival, The Barbs
Solo artists I adore:
Cerys Matthews, Martha Wainwright, Eileen Rose, PJ Harvey, Cara Dillon, Bjork, Kate Rusby, Jackson Browne, Bob Dylan, Tanya Donelly, Linda Ronstadt, Joni Mitchell, Neil Young, Maria McKee, Beth Orton
Fave albums:
Blood on the Tracks - Bob Dylan
A Nod's as Good as a Wink - Faces
Every Picture Tells a Story - Rod Stewart
Heartworm - Whipping Boy
Blue - Joni Mitchell
Definitely Maybe - Oasis
International Velvet - Catatonia
Debut - Bjork
Late for the Sky - Jackson Browne
Reading, Writing & Arithmetic - The Sundays
Its a Wonderful Life, Casablanca, Citizen Kane, Alien, 2001 - a Space Odyssey, The Natural, Manhattan, Star Wars, Blade Runner
ER, Doctor Who, any Star Trek, Stargate, X-files, Horizon, Fawlty Towers, most wildlife progs, Springwatch (fantastic telly!!)
Sword in the Stone - TH White, Harry Potter books, His Dark Materials - Philip Pulman, Dune- Frank Herbert, Ringworld - Larry Niven, Lovely Bones - Alice Sebold, Life of Pi - Yann Martel, American Gods - Neil Gaiman, Silverlock - Myer-Myers
Carl Sagan, Charles Darwin, Einstein, Gareth Edwards, JPR Williams, Gerald Davies, Neil Jenkins, Phil Bennet