Has anyone got any tips on writing a good concert review?
Posted by admin | Under Concert reviews Friday Oct 31, 2008A few of my friends and I are trying to start up a music review/photography online business, in which people from all over the world reviews about recent gigs/concerts that they went to. We then plan to hopefully start up a website domain and get photography (press) passes to arenas.
Basically, it’d help if you could give me some tips on how to write a good review for a show. And also if anyone could tell me a good camera to use for live music photography?
Thanks in advance. :]
Well, you have to be honest. Unflinching. You can’t make nice with the band, group, or artists. You have to be a neutral source and throw your personal opinions out the door. You have to ‘call it like you see it’ no matter who you may offend, especially the band or group members. You have to give specific locations, venues, and tour headliners, etc so much so that a person who wasn’t at that particular show or concert FEELS like they were. Put the reader in the audience. Don’t withhold details.
As for the camera, I’m not entirely sure (perhaps ask in Photography section)
Good luck!
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Brutal, honest truth. But don’t focus on the bad. do a pors and cons type review where you highlight the good things and the bad things. Unless there were no good things. then it’s just gloves off beat down
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Do not write a review like a newspaper…. Write it as a fan first and formost… provide as much artillery as you can to allow the reader to experience the walk in your shoes at the show.
Read a few of ours… My Morning Jacket, The Who and many more… In order to keep the integrity of the style of our reviews we keep things pretty local…
the concertaholic