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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23 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
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   
23 October 2010
Burning Down the House
The Music of Black Rock City
A temporary desert city with 50,000 citizens and ubiquitous sound systems. Greg Scruggs reflects on the sun, sand and sensory overload of Burning Man 2010.
by Greg Scruggs
live   
22 February 2011
Far From Daresbury
Superclubbing in the Southern Cone
Greg Scruggs reports on the socio-economic parallels and maximal house beats of 2011's Creamfields Brasil, held on the island paradise of Florianópolis.
by Greg Scruggs
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   
17 May 2004
Four Tet, Fennesz, Manitoba, Explosions In The Sky, Papa M, Dabrye, Animal Collective, Icarus
Organised by the prolific Eat Your Own Ears with a little help from Four Tet's Kieran Hebden, this ambitious musical feast brought together the...
by Ed Chamberlin
live   
26 March 2004
Infinite Livez, Lotek HiFi
by Demented Toddler and Masta G
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
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
live   
4 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
live   
25 August 2005
Bonny Prince Billy
Billy always seems to be covering his own songs. This is partly because he changes his name more often than Diddy: Palace, Palace Music, Palace...
by Demented Toddler
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
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
live   
4 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
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
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