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Posted by: Smikey2006 Jul 18 2007, 07:07 AM

We've got album reviews.. what about live performance reviews? help people to know weather to go to that 150$ concert or not This idea sprang up just now at 1:12am as i lay in my bed awaiting 11 hours from now when i get to leave for toronto to see Symphony X and Into Eternity.. hope others think this is a good idea so that i can write a review when i get back

Posted by: Hemlok Jul 18 2007, 07:45 AM

Certainly write a review If you look at the bottom on the main page, there is already a Concert Review from Kaneda. I think that has been there all day and maybe yesterday? Not sure, but it is very cool idea to have that.

- Hemlok

P.S Enjoy the show!

Posted by: FretDancer69 Jul 18 2007, 08:24 AM

QUOTE (Hemlok @ Jul 18 2007, 12:45 AM)

Certainly write a review If you look at the bottom on the main page, there is already a Concert Review from Kaneda. I think that has been there all day and maybe yesterday? Not sure, but it is very cool idea to have that.

- Hemlok

P.S Enjoy the show!

Posted by: Hemlok Jul 18 2007, 09:01 AM

Oh sorry, when I seen that on the front page I just assumed there was a subforum created.

Posted by: Kaneda Jul 18 2007, 11:25 AM

Didn't even know it was added to the front page until now

But yeah, I indirectly wondered about a concert review forum in the subtitle of that post, but since there wasn't one, the Roskilde post eventually didn't turn into a review either - just a typical post

But yeah, I for one would like a concert review forum. I never read album reviews anymore - they're the hardest kind of culture review to write, and I've yet to find anyone doing a really good job on them - in papers or on the web. Albums are just difficult to speak of concretely compared to film or literature. Spent a year of university studying (practical) journalism of culture, and I stayed far away from writing any music reviews.

Concert reviews are a different matter, since they often have a frame of reference, which the reviewer and the reader shares - the albums So a concert is easier to write about. There's something to compare it to. And as an event (as opposed to a "cultural artefact" as our journalism teacher would have called it) they mostly lend themselves to more interesting writing.

But the Roskilde/Muse post still isn't a review If a concert review forum popped up (and it seems Kris agrees it's a good idea), I might write some real ones

Posted by: Kristofer Dahl Jul 18 2007, 12:20 PM

Ok - so my original thought would be to first get some more concert reviews - and then have a board for it...

But perhaps we should do it the other way around?

By the way thanks a lot Kaneda for getting this started!

Kris

Posted by: FretDancer69 Jul 18 2007, 09:56 PM

QUOTE (Kristofer Dahl @ Jul 18 2007, 05:20 AM)

Ok - so my original thought would be to first get some more concert reviews - and then have a board for it...

But perhaps we should do it the other way around?

By the way thanks a lot Kaneda for getting this started!

Kris

Posted by: Kristofer Dahl Jul 21 2007, 11:44 AM

We have got one now! I have also moved the two "concert reviews board" related topics we had to the right spot!

Kris

Posted by: Smikey2006 Jul 21 2007, 09:03 PM

yay my idea was accepted