Welcome to Spannered’s music feature and review archive. What’s in here then? Well, since the site was launched in December 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 musical innovators Jeff Mills and Photek, write-ups of Cat Power, Caribou and Matmos gigs, and album reviews spanning Aphex Twin to NoMeansNo. You can also visit Spannered's music blog.
 
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Airto Moreira & Banda Sinfônica Do Estado De São Paulo
live   
2 May 2007
Airto Moreira & Banda Sinfônica Do Estado De São Paulo
In São Paulo
The Teatro Cultura Artística is quite an old theatre, and relatively small for such orchestral purposes. The Banda Sinfônica Do...
by Martin Longley
Béla Fleck & The Flecktones
live   
2 May 2007
Béla Fleck & The Flecktones
In São Paulo
Fleck is one of the leading figures in American roots music, with a vast load of albums stacked behind him, beginning with old-timey picking...
by Martin Longley
Bettye LaVette
live   
10 October 2007
Bettye LaVette
In New York
The sixty-one-year-old Bettye LaVette admits that she thought there might not be another album left in her career, but now The Scene Of The...
by Martin Longley
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
Big Chill
live   
12 August 2003
Big Chill
2003
Fancy a weekend of fun and frolics in an enchanted forest? This year 10,000 Big Chillers packed up their troubles and headed to the Malvern...
by Serena Kutchinsky
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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