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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Airto Moreira & Banda Sinfônica Do Estado De São Paulo
live   
2 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
Béla Fleck & The Flecktones
live   
2 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
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
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
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
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
Junior Brown
live   
26 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
The Vinicius Cantuária Quintet
live   
1 October 2007
The Vinicius Cantuária Quintet
In New York
Brazilian singer-guitarist Vinicius Cantuária moved from Rio De Janeiro to New York in 1995, and arguably started to become more...
by Martin Longley
Bettye LaVette
live   
10 October 2007
Bettye LaVette
In New York
The sixty-one-year-old Bettye LaVette admits that she thought there might not be another album left in her career, but now The Scene Of The...
by Martin Longley
Bloc Weekend 2007
live   
24 April 2007
Bloc Weekend 2007
Doolally in a Chalet
So, how was the first ever Bloc Weekend? Spannered's John Sevens brushes off the remaining rave detritus and pieces it all back together…
by John Sevens
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
Kronos Quartet/Kluster/Erik Sanko
live   
7 October 2007
Kronos Quartet/Kluster/Erik Sanko
at the Next Wave Festival
The Brooklyn Academy Of Music's Next Wave festival is now celebrating its twenty-fifth year, combining music, dance, film, theatre, visual art,...
by Martin Longley
Various
live   
5 May 2004
Various
All Tomorrow's Parties 2004
After five years, the strengths of ATP remain undiminished. Standing like some biblical David in the summer festival wastelands, it remains a...
by David Gunn
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
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
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