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 Kode9DJ 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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Sónar Festival 2007
Kone-R reports back on the sights and sounds of the 14th annual festival of advanced music and multimedia art.
Gamelan Sekar Petak
Opportunities are rare enough to witness a fully jangling gamelan array (outside of Indonesia, of course), but to hear this ornate collection...
Lee 'Scratch' Perry & Motörhead
Via Funchal is one of São Paulo's leading large-scale venues, like unto Brixton Academy in its steadily sloping gradient and wide-angle...
Roger Waters
Roger Waters and Dave Gilmour are now on 'friendly' terms, although they still aren't exactly sleeping together. Ties with Richard Wright have...
Eumir Deodato & Jazz Sinfônica
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...
Mike Stern & Romero Lubambo
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
Yann Tiersen
Most of us first heard Yann Tiersen's music when he assembled the soundtrack to Jean-Pierre Jeunet's Amélie flick, plucking out...
Airto Moreira & Banda Sinfônica Do Estado De São Paulo
The Teatro Cultura Artística is quite an old theatre, and relatively small for such orchestral purposes. The Banda Sinfônica Do...
Béla Fleck & The Flecktones
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...
Bloc Weekend 2007
So, how was the first ever Bloc Weekend? Spannered's John Sevens brushes off the remaining rave detritus and pieces it all back together…
Lura
What do you do when a Lisbon-dwelling Cape Verdean makes her Brazilian debut? Send along a Brummie to cover it, of course...
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...
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...
Juana Molina
Juana Molina is a bit under the weather tonight. She's taken something – maybe Cortizone – and as a result she's feeling a bit...
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...
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...
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