Music....playing (bass especially!) and listening, Bolton Wanderers Football Club, erm.......booze and bifters.......
Phil Gartside - to give the fucker a smack in the chops for being a tight fisted bastard.
OK....here goes again.........The Ramones, Radiohead, The Smiths, Nirvana, Jeff Buckley, The Stooges,The Pixies, MC5, Patti Smith, Neil Young, Creedence Clearwater Revival, The Damned, David Bowie, Rolling Stones, QOTSA, Hole, Kings of Leon, Led Zeppelin, Pink Floyd, Jimi Hendrix, The Coral, Muse,The Jam, the Zutons, Long Blondes, The Go! Team, The Fall, Echo and the Bunnymen, The Cure, Sonic Youth, Sex Pistols, Buzzcocks, Magazine, New York Dolls, Sparks, most Northern Soul, White Stripes, Arcade Fire,Inspiral Carpets, Pulp,Happy Mondays, Stone Roses, Television, The Kinks YYY's, Velvet Underground,The Doors, Dresden Dolls, The Who, Joy Division, The Clash.........do I need to go on???......
Withnail & I, Spinal Tap, The Big Lebowski, Dead Mans Shoes, any David Lynch, Donnie Darko, Clockwork Orange, Fight Club, Snatch, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas,American Beauty, Quadrophenia, Goodfellas.
Soccer AM, The Sopranos, Alan Partridge, The Office, Curb your Enthusiasm, Sky Sports 1, 2,3, Eurosport and Prem Plus! (sorry...........SETANTA!!!)
Richard Laymon, Shaun Hutson, David Gemmell, Graham Masterton, Dean R Koonz, etc..
Thom Yorke, Jeff Buckley, Dee Dee Ramone, Jimmy Page, Josh Homme (mmmmm!), Ivan Campo, and MIKE STRUTTER!!!!!