Altin Gün or: how to discover music live

Without prior preparation, our author found himself at Altin Gün’s concert in Zurich to refind the joy of concert reviews again.

Altin Gün at Kaufleuten Zürich 2024. Photo: Francesco Tancredi
Altin Gün on stage at Kaufleuten Zurich. Photo: Francesco Tancredi
Altin Gün on stage at Kaufleuten Zurich. Photo: Francesco Tancredi

I am going to level with you: concert reviews are not my favourite thing to write anymore.

The first time I covered a concert was in 2008, and since then, I‘ve written hundreds of reports. They were exciting at first, also a welcome treat, these free entries, as a quasi salary for the unpaid work. But they also quickly become formulaic and, as a result, boring to write. And a bored writer makes for a boring read.

Even worse, concert reviews are notoriously resistant to concepts and formats. You can‘t really squeeze them in a preconceived idea because you never know what happens that night.

Now, how do I get unstuck?

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