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.
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?
