Me at The Rolling Stone for Il Divo!!

IL DIVO performed flawlessly in their concert at Ritz Carlton Jakarta, Saturday (Feb 25). Guess who was the lucky guy  to get a chance writing the concert review for Rolling Stone? *smile* - Photo by ANTARA

Last Saturday night was an awesome night for me...

Rolling Stone had asked me to do a review for Il Divo's Jakarta concert. 

It all happened when the executive editor of rollingstone.co.id, Wendi Putranto, was looking for Il Divo's fans as he posted it via twitter. Didn't think twice, I responded telling him I was a fan of Il Divo - even not a die hard, but fond of hearing this vocal quartet's music. 

At first, I thought mas Wendi was just looking respondents to be asked about their opinion on Il Divo's upcoming concert on Feb 25 in Ritz Carlton which I had no plan to attend to (cause the pricey ticket). 

Turned out, it was not. IN FACT, he asked me to help him to write a review of Il Divo's concert for Rolling Stone! 

Okay, I thought this was way tooo exciting: watching Il Divo's concert for the very first time, experiencing their marvelously magical vocal live, writing about it, then it will be ending up in Rolling Stone Indonesia's web! Unbelievable for me!

The conversation of me and mas Wendi continued in email. He told me that he felt gratitude and believed a fan could do a good writing when talking about his/her idol. (I hope so Mas Wen :p). Via that email, he also informed I got an media ID, namely "Rolling Stone".

Behind the excitement, there was an anxiousness. I was little scared of how capable I was in delivering an idea about (mainly) classical-pop music, Il Divo's genre, to be read by Rolling Stone audience.

It was for Rolling Stone for god's sake! - whose most of the readers' iPod playing Gun N Roses to Bob Marley. Thoughts haunted my mind suddenly: Was it a sin to speak "Adagio For Strings" to them? Did they know who Samuel Barber was? 

Ah, this was a lifetime experience I thought. It would be SINNER if I rejected Rolling Stone's favor. Anxiousness turned back to excitement again! 

February 25 - the day of me being a "contributor" for Rolling Stone Indonesia & the day of me witnessing the multi-national quartet's flawlessly performance - came by. 

So how awesome Urs, Sebastien, David, Carlos' performance was?? and how terrible I was transferring that awesomeness to paragraphs?? 

You should read my review then :) Pay a visit to rollingstone.co.id/review (it's in bahasa Indonesia)

humble to hear your feedback guys :)