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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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live   
6 March 2008
NYC Winter Jazzfest
2008
Martin Longley crams himself into New York's Knitting Factory venue for 2008's Winter Jazzfest.
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   
23 April 2007
Lura
In São Paulo
What do you do when a Lisbon-dwelling Cape Verdean makes her Brazilian debut? Send along a Brummie to cover it, of course...
by Martin Longley
live   
13 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
live   
1 May 2007
Lee 'Scratch' Perry & Motörhead
In São Paulo
Via Funchal is one of São Paulo's leading large-scale venues, like unto Brixton Academy in its steadily sloping gradient and wide-angle...
by Martin Longley
live   
1 May 2007
Roger Waters
In São Paulo
Roger Waters and Dave Gilmour are now on 'friendly' terms, although they still aren't exactly sleeping together. Ties with Richard Wright have...
by Martin Longley
live   
1 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
live   
1 May 2007
Mike Stern & Romero Lubambo
In São Paulo
Right under the flight path of a troubled Conghonas Airport, and lurking behind the Valley Of The Kings-scaled Shopping Ibirapuera, lies the by Martin Longley
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   
1 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
live   
1 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
live   
2 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
live   
27 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
live   
25 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
live   
23 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
live   
25 September 2007
Junior Brown
In New York
Meet the maker of Down Home Chrome, Semi Crazy and Guit With It, gangling, besuited and topped by a voluminous...
by Martin Longley
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