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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9 October 2004
Juana Molina, Gravenhurst, Kama Aina
In these solitary times, people seem more interested in what sets them apart than what ties them together. Nuclear families yield to...
by Brona McVittie and Alastair Dant
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   
29 November 2004
Z-Star
It's a rainy thursday evening. I'm waiting for a bus to take me to Cargo in London's East End, fresh out of work. Cargo is a venue renowned for...
by Benjamin Lehmann
live   
3 December 2004
Busdriver, Rob Sonic, Beans and Mike Ladd
I got a phone call from the Bear around 6:30 pm. He asked me if I wanted to come see a hip hop show. OK, it had been a while since I'd seen a...
by Third Stiles
live   
8 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
live   
27 June 2005
Caribou
The Montague Arms is a great venue, half pub, half horse brass and stuffed stag’s head packed olde curiosity shop run by a family of...
by Vernon Crane
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   
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   
23 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
live   
1 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
live   
1 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
live   
1 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
live   
1 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
live   
1 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
live   
1 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
live   
1 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
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