Spannered: an introduction
What's all this nonsense about spanners?
Sneaking at the end of 2006, Spannered is borne of two websites you may have stumbled upon during the noughties: Musicalbear and Overload Media. Both have now packed up shop, but we’ve spent the last few months busily compiling the very best of their archives here, under one roof, along with a stack of freshly Spannered features, interviews and audiovisual content. Mutate to survive and all that.
Like the aforementioned sites, Spannered isn’t about making ourselves a pot of cash; it’s about raising the profile of music, art, film and literature that exists outside of the mainstream bubble; it's about offering a platform to writers, spreading a little mp3 love, and so forth.
If you contributed to Overload Media or Musicalbear and don’t want your work to appear on Spannered, send us £20 and some fags and we’ll remove it. No, seriously, drop us an email and tell us whassup.
As our archive has been compiled from different sources, you may encounter the odd typo or formatting error while everything beds in — do let us know so we can iron out all the niggles. Please note that for readability's sake some items in the archive have been edited since last appearing online. More information about Spannered's archive can be found here.
So, what's new?
A fair swedge as it goes. Bruna Rocha put questions to North America's DJ Ripley and South America's Fulerô O Esquema. We have words and music from Neil Landstrumm, Bass Clef and Hanuman, plus exclusive audio from Filastine, Surgeon and El Kano. Ron Beverage visits London's Oxo Tower and Gordon Ramrod takes a trip to York. There are galleries, book reviews, music reviews... the list goes on.
And what's old?
Now there's a question! Our archives stretch back as far as 2000, so we won't try to shoehorn it all into a nutshell here. Suffice to say you'll find a tasty cross-section of music, film and literature from the past six years, together with wisdom, rants and ramblings of a more diverse nature. We suggest you go off and explore.
Forthcoming on Spannered...
Over the next couple of weeks we’ll be publishing an in-depth interview with a certain south London luminary, we’ll be welcoming the delightful Tabatha Crotch to the team, and there's going to be a smorgasbord of video and artwork landing in our Spannervision section for you to feast your goggles on. Not to mention RSS feeds, the first Oddcast, more mixes…
Become a spanner in the works!
We accept content submissions for inclusion in the Spannered archives. If you have an article, interview or other written content you would like to send us as an unsolicited contribution, please get in touch.
Enjoy.
The Spannered team, December 2006
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Sneaking at the end of 2006, Spannered is borne of two websites you may have stumbled upon during the noughties: Musicalbear and Overload Media. Both have now packed up shop, but we’ve spent the last few months busily compiling the very best of their archives here, under one roof, along with a stack of freshly Spannered features, interviews and audiovisual content. Mutate to survive and all that.
Like the aforementioned sites, Spannered isn’t about making ourselves a pot of cash; it’s about raising the profile of music, art, film and literature that exists outside of the mainstream bubble; it's about offering a platform to writers, spreading a little mp3 love, and so forth.
If you contributed to Overload Media or Musicalbear and don’t want your work to appear on Spannered, send us £20 and some fags and we’ll remove it. No, seriously, drop us an email and tell us whassup.
As our archive has been compiled from different sources, you may encounter the odd typo or formatting error while everything beds in — do let us know so we can iron out all the niggles. Please note that for readability's sake some items in the archive have been edited since last appearing online. More information about Spannered's archive can be found here.
So, what's new?
A fair swedge as it goes. Bruna Rocha put questions to North America's DJ Ripley and South America's Fulerô O Esquema. We have words and music from Neil Landstrumm, Bass Clef and Hanuman, plus exclusive audio from Filastine, Surgeon and El Kano. Ron Beverage visits London's Oxo Tower and Gordon Ramrod takes a trip to York. There are galleries, book reviews, music reviews... the list goes on.
And what's old?
Now there's a question! Our archives stretch back as far as 2000, so we won't try to shoehorn it all into a nutshell here. Suffice to say you'll find a tasty cross-section of music, film and literature from the past six years, together with wisdom, rants and ramblings of a more diverse nature. We suggest you go off and explore.
Forthcoming on Spannered...
Over the next couple of weeks we’ll be publishing an in-depth interview with a certain south London luminary, we’ll be welcoming the delightful Tabatha Crotch to the team, and there's going to be a smorgasbord of video and artwork landing in our Spannervision section for you to feast your goggles on. Not to mention RSS feeds, the first Oddcast, more mixes…
Become a spanner in the works!
We accept content submissions for inclusion in the Spannered archives. If you have an article, interview or other written content you would like to send us as an unsolicited contribution, please get in touch.
Enjoy.
The Spannered team, December 2006
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