Avril Lavigne
Orlando Florida Guide
Avril
Lavigne
Concert Review
"Try
and shut me up tour"
Featuring Avril
Lavigne with Gob and Simple
Plan
at
Gwinnett Center in Duluth Ga.
When you have to drive 450 miles to cover a concert your expectations are high and when the artist is multiple Juno award winner Avril Lavigne your expectations increase ten fold. So you can imagine how nervous I was when credentials were not at will call. Minutes later a representative brought our credentials down and we were off to photograph the show. The pleasantness of the staff just added to the over all experience especially considering this was my first time covering a show at the Gwinnett Center in Duluth, Ga.
Gob opened the show and put on an excellent performance. This is a band your going to hear a lot about in the near Future. Simple Plan followed and to the surprise of the crowd bassist David Desrosiers had to be assisted onto the stage by Avril Lavigne after injuring his leg skateboarding earlier in the evening. When the crowd saw this happen they just went crazy. Injured and chairbound he was still able to crank on his bass. We've covered Simple Plan before and these Canadian rockers just keep getting better with every show. This is a band that is on the way to the top.
As good as the opening bands were the highlight of the show was Avril Lavigne who if you haven't heard of her, is an 18 year old Grammy nominated singer from Ontario, Canada who sold several million copies of her debut CD LET'S GO. Performing in front of a sold out crowd of of all ages, Avril started the show off with an incredible rendition of sk8ter boi, 30 seconds into the song I realized that this is a person who was born to entertain. With her angelic voice when she sang, I'm with you, it made you feel like she was singing directly to you and not to an audience of over 11,000 screaming fans. In an era where so many artists go thru the motions of performing it was a breath of fresh air to see Avril Lavrigne making constant eye contact with the audience and having a blast with every song she sang. Highlights of the show included an unforgetable version of Knocking on Heaven's Door and Avril's first hit single Complicated. After listening to her CD and seeing her perform in concert I believe that she has the ability to become one of the greatest performers of the modern era of music. Would I drive 450 miles again to see Avril Lavigne in concert? Hell, I'd drive 900 miles to see her perform shes that good!
By Michael Montes, Orlando Florida Guide.
Avril
is set to perform at The Juno Awards.
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