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Post by blackmage on Jun 30, 2024 18:35:32 GMT
This festival leg of the tour is one of the best ideas she's had recently. Honestly, I think some people may disagree I've been thinking that Avril is being more of a festival artist than a solo show artist nowadays. The audience is more engaged in festivals, and she performs better as a result. Plus, with a shorter setlist, the experience is more enjoyable without long pauses, and the ticket price sounds more reasonable. I'm sure people leave the concert feeling more satisfied with a shorter setlist after watching multiple artists than if they paid for a solo show and felt there weren't enough songs. The overall impression and experience are better. I hope she does a festival leg in the US next year too on in a near future. I remember she did some US festivals last year for the LS tour, including iHeart and WWWY. It would be great to see her continue this trend.
Glastonbury and Rock in Rio have proven that the general audience still loves her for her legacy. Even during RIR people sang to LS songs! How incredible is that!
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Post by nimbuspixie on Jun 30, 2024 18:36:53 GMT
From The Guardian (I’ll copy the review when it’s out)
20.34 CEST People are still raving about Avril Lavigne’s just-concluded set on the Other Stage, her first-ever appearance at Glastonbury. You wonder if she might not have been better suited to the Pyramid stage, perhaps even as an alternative to Shania in the Legends slot. Even those on the very fringe of the crowd were “absolutely rapt”, I’m told. Our Alexis has just filed his review, which will be with you shortly.
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Post by katy on Jun 30, 2024 18:37:55 GMT
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Post by chrisuk on Jun 30, 2024 18:41:23 GMT
Just joined... My fave band is bon Jovi and Jon has massive voice issues.
Always liked Avril and I have to say after seeing her at Glastonbury... WOW.... definitely still has an amazing voice...
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Post by nimbuspixie on Jun 30, 2024 18:43:01 GMT
Avril Lavigne reviewed Other stage, 6pm If Shania Twain’s legends slot feels strangely timely given the amount of pop-country currently in the UK singles chart, you could say the same thing about Avril Lavigne’s performance, which seems a little like a legends slot in all but name. Pop-punk is very much a thing again, and while you can trace the genre’s roots back to the Buzzcocks’ debut single, no artist can claim to have made punk more pop than Lavigne did in the early 00s: refashioning its sound – with a dash of grunge’s angst – as bratty but harmless tweenage entertainment. Her debut album shifted so many copies that its follow-up was deemed a commercial disappointment on the grounds that only sold 10m, as opposed to its predecessor’s 16m. Moreover, its current practitioners have been more than happy to pay tribute to a woman they clearly consider to be the OG: Olivia Rodrigo covered Complicated when she played Glastonbury (and the same stage) two years ago. “Here’s to never growing up,” Lavigne sings, as well she might: after briefly dabbling with a more mature sound – moody Christian rock, if you please – on 2019’s Head Above water, she clearly realised which way the wind was blowing and leaned back into her original mall-rat teen-punk persona. On one hand, you have to feel for her: the song’s protestations notwithstanding, it has to be weird to be trapped in a perpetual fishnets-and-tartan-miniskirt adolescence, doomed for the rest of eternity to write songs called things like Love Sux and Bite Me, and to have to screw your face up, stick your tongue out and do the devil horns things with your hands every time a camera’s pointed at you. On the other, look at the size of that crowd. In another example of this year’s weird scheduling choices, she’s on The Other Stage at the same time Janelle Monae is on the Pyramid: the latter plays to a sparse audience, while there’s so many people crammed into the smaller area that stewards are forced to close one entrance to stop anyone else turning up. Inside the audience are – as the band Lavigne professes to enjoy singing along to at the top of her lungs would put it – packt like sardines in a crushd tin box. There really are an awful lot of early 30-something ladies on people’s shoulders, not merely singing, but cathartically emoting like mad to Losing Grip and I’m With You: the moment when Lavigne organises a crowd singalong to the latter seems a little surplus to requirements, given that everyone in the field already seems to bellowing along to every word she sings anyway. Critically mocked as cosplay punk and rounded-edge grunge her music may have been – the idea of Avril Lavigne being widely hailed as a major influence would have been a very peculiar notion to conjure with in 2004, which just goes to show how wrong you can be – but a song like Don’t Tell Me, which advised her her fans not to feel pressurised into having sex, clearly spoke very directly to a generation of women only a few years younger than Lavigne herself when her debut album was released. For someone who evidently had such an impact on people’s lives, she’s a coolly professional rather than wildly engaging stage presence, although her voice sounds great. But that scarcely matters. Anyone who wasn’t under her spell in the early 00s might be startled at how robust her songs sound 20 years on. They’re exceptionally well written, and moreover there doesn’t seem to be much of a drop off in musical quality when the set veers away from her first two albums into her more recent oeuvre. Certainly, there’s no drop off in the audience’s enthusiasm: the field remains packed and noisily devoted to the end – a rapturously-received run through Sk8r Boi – which rather suggests they’re here for more reasons than mere nostalgia. amp.theguardian.com/music/live/2024/jun/30/glastonbury-live-sunday-at-the-festival-with-sza-shania-twain-and-more
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Post by mondragon on Jun 30, 2024 18:44:30 GMT
She’s just been interviewed by the BBC. She swore live on BBC2 at 7:30 in the evening with the presenter having to apologise. I’m not sure she realise this was being shown live on national telly. The interviewer also asked her a question about how she feels to be at Glastonbury and what her experience is of being there (as it is a magical place) which she clearly didn’t answer and gave the usual stock answer of I’ve been performing for 22 years… 😂😂
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Post by katy on Jun 30, 2024 18:46:28 GMT
She’s just been interviewed by the BBC. She swore live on BBC2 at 7:30 in the evening with the presenter having to apologise. I’m not sure she realise this was being shown live on national telly. The interviewer also asked her a question about how she feels to be at Glastonbury and what her experience is of being there (as it is a magical place) which she clearly didn’t answer and gave the usual stock answer of I’ve been performing for 22 years… 😂😂 Lmao I love this
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Post by katy on Jun 30, 2024 19:01:01 GMT
I see the crowd at the main stage at the same time Avril was on was really small. Meanwhile people were being turned away from Avrils stage because it was too busy. What pleb makes these stage decisions?!
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Post by mondragon on Jun 30, 2024 19:07:41 GMT
I see the crowd at the main stage at the same time Avril was on was really small. Meanwhile people were being turned away from Avrils stage because it was too busy. What pleb makes these stage decisions?! I think they probably thought Janelle Monae may have attracted a bigger crowd. She’s more critically acclaimed isn’t she and Avril was prob a bit unpredictable. Some of the articles report that people were watching Avril from as far back as the campsite.
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Post by tommygun on Jun 30, 2024 19:09:12 GMT
The independent review called her Pop Punks greatest miserablist I am howling at that! 🤣
So great to see these great reviews coming in.
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Post by katy on Jun 30, 2024 19:10:16 GMT
I see the crowd at the main stage at the same time Avril was on was really small. Meanwhile people were being turned away from Avrils stage because it was too busy. What pleb makes these stage decisions?! I think they probably thought Janelle Monae may have attracted a bigger crowd. She’s more critically acclaimed isn’t she and Avril was prob a bit unpredictable. Some of the articles report that people were watching Avril from as far back as the campsite. Honestly I’ve never heard of her 😅 but I am bad with pretty much any artist post-2010 lol
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Post by tr252 on Jun 30, 2024 19:12:51 GMT
I see the crowd at the main stage at the same time Avril was on was really small. Meanwhile people were being turned away from Avrils stage because it was too busy. What pleb makes these stage decisions?! I think they probably thought Janelle Monae may have attracted a bigger crowd. She’s more critically acclaimed isn’t she and Avril was prob a bit unpredictable. Some of the articles report that people were watching Avril from as far back as the campsite. One of my friends was because they couldn’t get into the field, it had been shut off. Glastonbury keep making stupid staging decisions though. I was at the Sugababes on Friday afternoon and it was frankly dangerously busy and again they had to shut the field.
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Post by katy on Jun 30, 2024 19:32:00 GMT
I kept half forgetting I’m seeing her on Tuesday (I have eras tour in 2 weeks and that’s kinda overshadowed my whole life lol) but I’m really excited now. I have my issues with her setlist (for her own shows - festivals has been spot on imo!) but that Glasto performance was so good. 20 years ago I was 12 and my mum took me to my first ever concert - Avril, with Simple Plan as support. 20 years later I’m seeing the exact same thing. So full circle and I can’t wait!
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