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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live   
30 June 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
live   
30 June 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
live   
30 June 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
live   
26 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
live   
22 October 2007
Subloaded
Underwater Dancehall Album Launch
Al Fresco surfaces from a night out in Bristol with sore ears and a bout of decompression sickness.
by Al Fresco
live   
5 August 2004
Supersonic Festival
2004
The recent regeneration and revitalisation of the centre of Birmingham has seen the city finally receive some recognition as rightly holding...
by Andy Parsons
live | Warp   
4 June 2004
Team Shadetek, Jimmy Edgar and Chris Clark
Of late, strange things have been happening in the Warp camp. The introduction of music download service, Bleep, increasing co-operation with...
by David Gunn
live   
12 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
live   
18 August 2003
The Bees
Sunshine hit Shoreditch last Friday as The Bees trucked into town for a gig at London's supercool Cargo. For one night the often tricky venue...
by Serena Kutchinsky
live   
22 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
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
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
live   
26 November 2008
The John Otway Big Band
live in York
The gibbon-limbed protagonist of the self-mocking rock'n'roller canon continues to defecate on the carcass of stadium rock from the lofty heights of his stepladder.
by Martin Longley
live   
26 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
live   
20 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
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
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