Don't start me....
'Alternative', indie, rock, and anything unusual...
Adam Gardner
Alphabeat
Amy Winehouse
Aqualung
Arctic Monkeys
Ash
Athlete
Audioslave
Babyshambles
Beatles
Belle and Sebastian
Bikini Kill
Billy Bragg
Bloc Party
Blondie
Blur
Bonnie Tyler
Boy Kill Boy
Boy Least Likely To
Candie Payne
Captain
Catatonia
Coldplay
Cooper Temple Clause
Coral
Courtney Love
CSS
Cure
David Bowie
David Devant and his Spirit Wife
David Ford
Dead 60s
Dirty Pretty Things
Distillers
Divine Comedy
Dresden Dolls
Duke Special
Easyworld
Echo and the Bunnymen
Editors
Elbow
Elvis Costello
Feeder
Feeling
Foo Fighters
Franz Ferdinand
Fratellis
Futureheads
Garbage
Gary Numan
Giant Drag
Ghosts
Gogol Bordello
Goldfrapp
Gossip
Graham Coxon
Guillemots
Hole
Holloways
Hoosiers
Hot Club de Paris
Hot Puppies
Human League
IAMX
Iggy Pop
Iko
Incubus
Interpol
Iron Maiden
Jack Penate
Jam
Jamie T
Jane's Addiction
Jarvis Cocker
Jet
Jim Noir
John Lennon
Johnny Cash
Just Jack
K-tron and Exploding Triangles
Kaiser Chiefs
Kasabian
Keane
Kid Harpoon
Killers
Kooks
Kosheen
K's Choice
KT Tunstall
Larrikin Love
Led Zeppelin
Libertines
Lightning Seeds
Little Man Tate
Long Blondes
Lou Reed
Manic Street Preachers
Maximo Park
Maybes
Metallica
Morrissey
Mr Hudson and the Library
Muse
Mystery Jets
New Young Pony Club
Nirvana
OkGo
Ordinary Boys
Palladium
Paulo Nutini
Paul McCartney
Peaches
Pete Doherty
Pigeon Detectives
Pipettes
Pixies
Placebo
Pogues
Poppy and the Jezebels
Porno For Pyros
Pulp
Puppini Sisters
Queen
Queens of the Stone Age
Raconteurs
Radiohead
Rascals
Razorlight
Red Hot Chili Peppers
REM
Remi Nicole
Reverand and the Makers
Robots In Disguise
Rolling Stones
Roxy Music
Scissor Sisters
Seth Lakeman
Sex Pistols
Shack
Skunk Anansie
Smiths
Space
Specials
Starsailor
Stephanie Dosen
Stephen Fretwell
Stereophonics
Stooges
Stranglers
Streets
Strokes
Suede
Supertramp
System of a Down
T Rex
Thomas Truax
Thrills
Ting Tings
Tiny Dancers
Travis
Velvet Revolver
Velvet Underground
Verve
View
We Start Fires
Weezer
Wheatus
White Rose Movement
White Stripes
Wombats
Wonder Stuff
Yeah Yeah Yeahs
Zutons
Horror mainly, with a bit of British comedy thrown in....A Clockwork Orange
Carrie
Craft
Evita
Exorcist
Gothika
Hide And Seek
If...
Jerry Springer: The Opera
League of Gentlemen's Apocolypse
Life Of Brian
Monster
Omen
Others
Peter's Friends
Poltergeist
Producers
Psycho
Ring
Rocky Horror Picture Show
Signs
Silence of the Lambs
Sixth Sense
South Park film
Team America
Unbreakable
Village
Walk The Line
White Noise
Wicker Man
Wilde
British alternative comedy, almost exclusively...
A Bit Of Fry and Laurie
Absolute Power
Alan Partridge
Bad Girls
Blackadder
Bottom
Brass Eye
Day Today
Dead Ringers
Father Ted
Filthy, Rich and Catflap
Garth Merenghi's Darkplace
Gavin And Stacey
Harry Hill's TV Burp
House
IT Crowd
Jeeves And Wooster
Just A Gigolo
Kingdom
League of Gentlemen
Little Britain
Mighty Boosh
Mitchell and Webb
My Life In Film
Nathan Barley
Never Mind The Buzzcocks
New Statesman
Peep Show
QI
Red Dwarf
Roman's Empire
Russell Brand
Saxondale
Snuffbox
Star Stories
Sugar Rush
Whose Line Is It Anyway?
Young Ones
George Orwell, Irvine Welsh, Stephen Fry, Margaret Atwood, Mark Haddon, Sylvia Plath, Anthony Burgess, Thomas Harris, PG Wodehouse, Stephen King, Lewis Carroll, Matt Haig, Arthur Conan Doyle, Scarlett Thomas, Aldous Huxley, Nabokov, Tom Slemen, Oscar Wilde, Jack Kerouac, Ray Bradbury, and anything in between. Along with the odd (auto)biography.
Linda McCartney, for bringing vegetarianism to the mainstream and allowing passionate but lazy types like me to eat without killing things easily. MP Tony Banks, for fighting like hell over 10 years for the promised hunt ban, and probably ultimately killing himself. After winning that ban, might I add. Emma Milne, for her outspoken views on animal rights issues. Beth Ditto, for her outspoken views on everything.