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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The Claudia Quintet/The John hollenbeck Large Ensemble
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
The Bug
live   
23 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
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
Napoleon Murphy Brock & Project/Object
live   
16 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
Ugly Duckling
live   
18 March 2004
Ugly Duckling
Support at this Monday night gig came from the uninventive, over-rehearsed Speech Defect, who have certainly mastered the MC chorus thing that...
by Demented Toddler
Infinite Livez, Lotek HiFi
live   
26 March 2004
Infinite Livez, Lotek HiFi
by Demented Toddler and Masta G
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
Rhythm and Sound
live   
6 April 2004
Rhythm and Sound
Plastic People was shaken to its very foundations last Sunday night. The dubwise antics of German duo Mark Ernestus and Moritz von Oswald,...
by Masta G
Req and Kid Acne
live   
10 July 2003
Req and Kid Acne
Tuesday night in East London saw Req and Kid Acne promoting their new albums (both on Warp) as part of the Arts Council funded Logarhythm tour....
by Masta G
Pole
live   
20 July 2003
Pole
I never fancied seeing a Pole set whilst standing up really but with his new, more hip hop direction, Plastic People was the ideal place to...
by Mary Skillet
The Nextmen and Cutty Ranks
live   
21 July 2003
The Nextmen and Cutty Ranks
There’s no escaping Cutty Ranks at the moment – on Friday night he appeared at The Nextmen’s album launch party, a...
by Masta G
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
NYC Winter Jazzfest
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
The Fall
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
Juana Molina
live   
9 May 2005
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...
by Vernon Crane
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
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