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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George Wein & The Newport All-Stars
live   
20 November 2007
George Wein & The Newport All-Stars
In New York
The avuncular George Wein is beaming like he's holding his own personal jam session at home, inviting his favourite players and basking in...
by Martin Longley
Gent Jazz Festival 2008
live   
3 August 2008
Gent Jazz Festival 2008
Part One: Hardcore Jazz
Martin Longley travels to the cobblestone streets of Gent, Belgium for a historical tour of jazz's journey from bebop to fusion.
by Martin Longley
Gent Jazz Festival 2008
live   
26 August 2008
Gent Jazz Festival 2008
Part Two: Jazz Peripherals
From Cuban nostalgia to avant rock weirdness, the peripheral jazz zones of Gent Jazz Festival give Martin Longley much to reflect on in his second round-up of 2008's event.
by Martin Longley
Gamelan Sekar Petak
live   
28 May 2007
Gamelan Sekar Petak
In York
Opportunities are rare enough to witness a fully jangling gamelan array (outside of Indonesia, of course), but to hear this ornate collection...
by Martin Longley
Four Tet, Fennesz, Manitoba, Explosions In The Sky, Papa M, Dabrye, Animal Collective, Icarus
live   
18 May 2004
Four Tet, Fennesz, Manitoba, Explosions In The Sky, Papa M, Dabrye, Animal Collective, Icarus
Organised by the prolific Eat Your Own Ears with a little help from Four Tet's Kieran Hebden, this ambitious musical feast brought together the...
by Ed Chamberlin
Foreign Muck
live   
12 November 2003
Foreign Muck
The Foreign Muck parties have been bringing a wealth of exciting musicians over from the continent these past three months. D'Julz, who is...
by Benjamin Lehmann
Eumir Deodato & Jazz Sinfônica
live   
2 May 2007
Eumir Deodato & Jazz Sinfônica
In São Paulo
Does Eumir Deodato spend his year travelling the globe, hooking up with the biggest orchestras he can find? This man is known to most as the...
by Martin Longley
Ecstatic Peace!
live   
20 February 2008
Ecstatic Peace!
Thurston Moore Groop, MV & EE, Tall Firs
Bring the noise! Martin Longley catches Sonic Youth's ever-youthful Thurston Moore in New York at the recent showcase gig for his Ecstatic Peace! imprint.
by Martin Longley
Debashish Bhattacharya
live   
14 July 2008
Debashish Bhattacharya
live in York
Debashish Bhattacharya, slide guitar guru and preserver of the ancient Indian classical system, touches down in York with his arsenal of customised axes.
by Martin Longley
Clean Feed
live   
24 September 2007
Clean Feed
NYC Fest
Martin Longley pulls together highlights from the recent NYC fest thrown by Lisbon's forward-looking jazz label, Clean Feed.
by Martin Longley
Cat Power
live   
5 April 2004
Cat Power
When you're music shopping on Amazon, helpful lists appear down the side, offering more in the same vein. Next to Cat Power's albums, the lists...
by Demented Toddler
Caribou
live   
28 June 2005
Caribou
The Montague Arms is a great venue, half pub, half horse brass and stuffed stag’s head packed olde curiosity shop run by a family of...
by Vernon Crane
Busdriver, Rob Sonic, Beans and Mike Ladd
live   
3 December 2004
Busdriver, Rob Sonic, Beans and Mike Ladd
I got a phone call from the Bear around 6:30 pm. He asked me if I wanted to come see a hip hop show. OK, it had been a while since I'd seen a...
by Third Stiles
Bonny Prince Billy
live   
26 August 2005
Bonny Prince Billy
Billy always seems to be covering his own songs. This is partly because he changes his name more often than Diddy: Palace, Palace Music, Palace...
by Demented Toddler
Bloc Weekend 2007
live   
24 April 2007
Bloc Weekend 2007
Doolally in a Chalet
So, how was the first ever Bloc Weekend? Spannered's John Sevens brushes off the remaining rave detritus and pieces it all back together…
by John Sevens
Big Chill
live   
8 March 2004
Big Chill
10th Birthday Bash
The Big Chill’s 10th birthday bash in the holy setting of Islington’s Union Chapel, was the type of party guaranteed to drag even...
by Serena Kutchinsky
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