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Welcome to Spannered’s music feature and review archive. What’s in here then? Well, since the site was launched in 2006, Spannered has run in-depth interviews with globetrotting tastemakers Kode9, DJ Ripley and Maga Bo, tripped over to Barcelona's Sónar festival, fallen over at the first ever Bloc Weekend, toured New York's global music circuit and gotten tinnitus in Bristol and São Paulo.
 
Spannered's archive stretches all the way back to 2000, however. Have a dig about and you'll unearth interviews and features with Jeff Mills and Photek, write-ups of Cat Power and Caribou gigs, and album reviews spanning Aphex Twin to NoMeansNo.
 
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29 November 2004
Z-Star
It's a rainy thursday evening. I'm waiting for a bus to take me to Cargo in London's East End, fresh out of work. Cargo is a venue renowned for...
by Benjamin Lehmann
live   
1 May 2007
Yann Tiersen
In São Paulo
Most of us first heard Yann Tiersen's music when he assembled the soundtrack to Jean-Pierre Jeunet's Amélie flick, plucking out...
by Martin Longley
live   
19 November 2001
Various Artists
Warp
Warp said the Ocean Club had a most impressive sound system and if they say that, it must be bloody amazing, recalling a night they played in...
by Richard Wilkes
live   
4 May 2004
Various
All Tomorrow's Parties 2004
After five years, the strengths of ATP remain undiminished. Standing like some biblical David in the summer festival wastelands, it remains a...
by David Gunn
live   
18 March 2004
Ugly Duckling
Support at this Monday night gig came from the uninventive, over-rehearsed Speech Defect, who have certainly mastered the MC chorus thing that...
by Demented Toddler
live   
26 January 2004
Ty
Live hip hop is notoriously hard to pull off – rapping over DAT instrumentals of album tracks doesn't convey much of an artist's musical...
by Demented Toddler
live   
30 September 2007
The Vinicius Cantuária Quintet
In New York
Brazilian singer-guitarist Vinicius Cantuária moved from Rio De Janeiro to New York in 1995, and arguably started to become more...
by Martin Longley
live   
20 November 2007
The Randy Weston African Rhythms Trio
In New York
The incredibly tall Weston hunkers over his dwarfed piano, looking years younger than his eight decades ought to demand. He's in relaxed mode...
by Martin Longley
live   
20 July 2003
The Nextmen and Cutty Ranks
There’s no escaping Cutty Ranks at the moment – on Friday night he appeared at The Nextmen’s album launch party, a...
by Masta G
live   
26 October 2004
The Mutts
It isn't that The Mutts are bad at what they do or that what they do is bad within itself, maybe it's just a case of overkill. There are a lot...
by Vernon Crane
live   
26 November 2008
The John Otway Big Band
live in York
The gibbon-limbed protagonist of the self-mocking rock'n'roller canon continues to defecate on the carcass of stadium rock from the lofty heights of his stepladder.
by Martin Longley
live   
11 March 2008
The Fall
at The Robin 2
After three decades of curmudgeonly scowling, has Mark E Smith finally earned the right to act like James Brown? Martin Longley treks to the UK's West Midlands to find out...
by Martin Longley
live   
30 December 2007
The Claudia Quintet/The John hollenbeck Large Ensemble
In New York
Drummer and composer John Hollenbeck comes across as a combination of benign control freak and supremely modest humorist. He's very much the...
by Martin Longley
live   
22 May 2003
The Bug
You might expect someone called The Bug to make music that infected you slowly, gradually penetrating your consciousness. In fact, he crawls...
by Gervase de Wilde
live   
18 August 2003
The Bees
Sunshine hit Shoreditch last Friday as The Bees trucked into town for a gig at London's supercool Cargo. For one night the often tricky venue...
by Serena Kutchinsky
live   
12 May 2008
The Bays & AGT Rave Cru
live at Peepshow
'The band reinventing dance music' and the 'Chas & Dave of Rave' together under one roof? Kone-R heads out in west London.
by Kone-R
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