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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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17 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
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   
24 October 2010
Burning Down the House
The Music of Black Rock City
A temporary desert city with 50,000 citizens and ubiquitous sound systems. Greg Scruggs reflects on the sun, sand and sensory overload of Burning Man 2010.
by Greg Scruggs
live   
22 February 2011
Far From Daresbury
Superclubbing in the Southern Cone
Greg Scruggs reports on the socio-economic parallels and maximal house beats of 2011's Creamfields Brasil, held on the island paradise of Florianópolis.
by Greg Scruggs
live   
30 June 2003
Sónar Festival
2003
Three days of sun, San Miguel and forward-thinking electronic sounds in the vibrant city of Barcelona. Overload’s Jeremy Slacksworth visits Sonar 2003, the 10th International Festival of Advanced Music and Multimedia Art.
by Jeremy Slacksworth
live   
30 June 2004
Sónar Festival
2004
As the world's best-known electronic music festival reaches its eleventh year, Jeremy Slacksworth decides this sun-soaked melange of the industry and raver is reaching its eleventh hour.
by Jeremy Slacksworth
live   
23 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
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
live   
26 June 2007
Sónar Festival 2007
Una Cerveza Con Limón, Señor
Kone-R reports back on the sights and sounds of the 14th annual festival of advanced music and multimedia art.
by Kone-R
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   
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
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 November 2007
Mark Murphy
In New York
Most folks would probably deem Mark Murphy a bit of an eccentric figure, but it's this very individuality that as marked him out as one of the...
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   
15 October 2007
Napoleon Murphy Brock & Project/Object
In New York
There are two meaningful Frank Zappa cover bands operating In the UK, each of them excellent in their differing ways. But, as you might expect,...
by Martin Longley
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
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