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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Matthew Herbert Big Band
live   
1 December 2003
Matthew Herbert Big Band
Electric storms hit the South Bank from all sides during Gilles Peterson’s blindingly eclectic night of ‘future jazz’ at the...
by Serena Kutchinsky
Sónar Festival
live   
1 July 2001
Sónar Festival
2001
Forget Ibiza and the industry schmoozathon that is Miami - every June, Barcelona's Sonar Festival extends a warm Mediterranean welcome to techno tourists from across the globe. Overload's Nick Craddock was there to get the low-down, and what a chore it was.
by Nick Craddock
Sónar Festival
live   
1 July 2002
Sónar Festival
2002
DJ Lopez of Venezuela’s dark, experimental electro booms out of the speakers as we sup cold beer on Thursday afternoon and watch John...
by Milla Cint
Sónar Festival
live   
1 July 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
Sónar Festival
live   
1 July 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
Various Artists
live   
19 November 2001
Various Artists
Warp
Warp said the Ocean Club had a most impressive sound system and if they say that, it must be bloody amazing, recalling a night they played in...
by Richard Wilkes
Ty
live   
26 January 2004
Ty
Live hip hop is notoriously hard to pull off – rapping over DAT instrumentals of album tracks doesn't convey much of an artist's musical...
by Demented Toddler
Juana Molina, Gravenhurst, Kama Aina
live   
10 October 2004
Juana Molina, Gravenhurst, Kama Aina
In these solitary times, people seem more interested in what sets them apart than what ties them together. Nuclear families yield to...
by Brona McVittie and Alastair Dant
Pangeia Instrumentos - Victor Gama with Max Eastley and Heitor Alvelos
live   
20 January 2004
Pangeia Instrumentos - Victor Gama with Max Eastley and Heitor Alvelos
Instruments onstage, three of them, with 200 people waiting. Sculptural driftwood in low light, no sound. Just an empty stage that looks like...
by David Gunn
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
The Randy Weston African Rhythms Trio
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
The Mutts
live   
27 October 2004
The Mutts
It isn't that The Mutts are bad at what they do or that what they do is bad within itself, maybe it's just a case of overkill. There are a lot...
by Vernon Crane
Mark Murphy
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
Z-Star
live   
29 November 2004
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...
by Benjamin Lehmann
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
Nobukazu Takemura and the Child's View Band
live   
2 March 2004
Nobukazu Takemura and the Child's View Band
There are no two ways about this – this was a very disappointing night. It sounded like one of the best evenings you could hope for....
by David Gunn
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