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Upcoming Gigs
Spanner Big Band
The Three Compasses, 62 High St, London N8 7NX
Wednesday 31st January 8pm
Dan Spanner Trio
Biddle Brothers, 88 Lower Clapton Rd, E5 0QR
Friday 9th February 9pm
Dan Spanner Trio
The Gunners, 204 Blackstock Road, N5 1EN
Thursday 15th February 8.30pm
Spanner Big Band
The Three Compasses, 62 High St, London N8 7NX
Wednesday 14th February 8pm
Spanner Big Band
The Three Compasses, 62 High St, London N8 7NX
Wednesday 28th February 8pm
Spanner Big Band
The Three Compasses, 62 High St, London N8 7NX
Wednesday 13th March 8pm
Spanner Big Band
Jamboree, 6 St Chad’s Place, London WC1X 9HH
Wednesday 20th March 8.30pm
Spanner Big Band
The Three Compasses, 62 High St, London N8 7NX
Wednesday 27th March 8pm
Dan Spanner Trio
Sonic Rock Solstice Festival, Stoke Prior sports & country Club, Bromsgrove, Worcestershire, B60 4AL
20th-24th June 2024
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Spanner Big Band in Blackstock Road
January 23, 2022
We made it to 2022! The Spanner Big Band have secured a gig at The Arsenal Tavern on Sunday 30th January. Sunday? That’s weird… It’s a long, long story but the long and short of it is that the band cannot compete with Sky Sport any more… even though the footy pubs at The Arsenal […]
Spannerman album, “Into the Abyss”
December 31, 2021
The Spannerman album, “Into the Abyss” is finally available to buy and listen to on bandcamp. https://spannerman.bandcamp.com/releases
No Spanner Big Band gig this week, Wednesday 22nd December. The band will resume live gigs in the New Year. Stay safe. Have a good one!
December 20, 2021
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Spanner Big Band
The Spanner Big Band, infused with the infectious personality of leader Dan Spanner with his boundless energy and enthusiasm, bringing humour, surreal observations and audience participation to the big band genre. With a core of loyal and high class musicians, The Spanner Big Band plays music written and arranged by members of the band and other colleagues and friends as well as from the Greats’ repertoires of the past. Formed in 2006, the band play regular gigs, choosing not to rehearse but to hone the music ‘live’. Past residencies include; Tufnells, The Cross Kings, Kings Cross Social Club, Cottons, ‘Round Midnight and The Gunners.
The band currently has a fortnightly residency at The Three Compasses in Hornsey, London N8 as well as bi-monthly appearances at Jamboree in Kings Cross.
Dan Spanner Trio
Veteran sax player, band leader and performer, Dan Spanner and his trio play psychedelic jazz with pedal-affected sax and ‘out there’ poetry… not really like anything else …
Gong, King Crimson…
“Dan Spanner. Tim Burton got it all from him!!”
“Astoundingly captivating organised noise!”
“Frontman, Dan Spanner, reminiscent of Iggy Pop, Ian Dury…”
“Hendrix on sax with nutty psychedelic poetry and lyrics”
“Jazz punk psych funk…”
Eddy Whirls
Experimental soundscapes with saxes, clarinets, Moog synthesizer and voice.
Spannerman
Spannerman, seething with some kind of unfathomable angst, combining complex metal-esque experimentalism with uniquely effected sax. Simultaneously aggressive and sophisticated but also supremely dance-able and fun. (Ex Webcore, Ringo Of Roses, Thunderdogs, Circus Archaos, Headjam…)… psychedelic prog…
…I’ve known Spannerman for decades and have really close social ties to the band. Played on the same bill up as them waaaaaaaay back when and co-habited with ex band members as well as playing in other line-ups with ex band members. For my money Dan Spanner is one of this country’s most accomplished and progressive composers, saxophonists, singers and writers. If any of you get a chance to see them do it. They’re up there with The Hendrix Experience and King Crimson. I kid you not. Thanks to Simon Kimani Deards for booking em for The Cosmic Puffin. Good call…
Spanner Jazz Punks
Conceived in the cauldron of demon frontman Dan Spanner’s maniacal mind, Spanner Jazz Punks are the troublesome offspring of a frenetic marriage between sleazy punk jazz and psychedelic performance art. With their roots in the legendary French chainsaw-juggling circus company Archaos, Spanner Jazz Punks have been steeped in a brew of psychedelic rock, ska, gypsy, klezmer and big band swing, and come out kicking, screaming and spinning yarns of quixotic, tragic, heroic ne’er-do-well adventure.
Spannertate
Two voices, guitar and violin.