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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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
Subloaded
live   
23 October 2007
Subloaded
Underwater Dancehall Album Launch
Al Fresco surfaces from a night out in Bristol with sore ears and a severe bout of decompression sickness.
by Al Fresco
Sónar Festival 2007
live   
27 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
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
Gent Jazz Festival 2008
live   
26 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
Gent Jazz Festival 2008
live   
3 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
Clean Feed
live   
24 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
Debashish Bhattacharya
live   
14 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
The Bays & AGT Rave Cru
live   
13 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
Gamelan Sekar Petak
live   
28 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
Lura
live   
24 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
Lee 'Scratch' Perry & Motörhead
live   
2 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
Roger Waters
live   
2 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
Eumir Deodato & Jazz Sinfônica
live   
2 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
Mike Stern & Romero Lubambo
live   
2 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
Yann Tiersen
live   
2 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
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