The EPIC Review.
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Hey Bandaiders!!!
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On Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday of this week I embarked on a road trip of EPIC proportions to attend Avril Lavigne’s The Best Damn Tour concerts in Toronto, Kingston, and London! This is the story of my trip (complete with getting Bandaids on the big screen for the DVD show, my car breaking down in Napanee, and meeting Avril at the London concert) and the amazing people I was with
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TORONTO
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</o> It all started on Monday afternoon when I headed to the Air Canada Centre to meet up with Heather, Bri, and Jill for THE Toronto show. The original plan was to get there at 11 PM the night before and camp on the road (it’s a bit of a tradition
) but we fortunately scored VIP passes which made things a bit more comfortable! I arrived at the venue around 4 PM and ran into a bunch of Bandaiders including Sarah at the front of the line! They quickly exhausted my supply of Bandaids pins (
) though I was happy to see them representing! I met up with Heather and an old friend (also) Sarah and we reminisced about the Montreal ’04 road trip we made to see Avril for Evan’s last Canadian date with the band and all our other Avril experiences. Bri and Jill joined us shortly thereafter and dutifully helped Heather and myself pass out a few (hundred) Bandaids promo cards and Black List Club stickers!
At around 5:45 PM we were let into the venue and we secure our spot in front of the catwalk. Because the VIP packages were sold out for this show, the GA barricade was 19 feet back from the stage and they had to let VIPs stand directly in front of the stage too. Everyone else started filing in soon after and Emily (Emmyrox) from Bandaids joined us up at the stage too! Emily made a kickass sign to help us rep Bandaids for the DVD. We were hoping to have Bandaids T-shirts ready, but the order didn’t come through in time so instead I wore the purple Abbey Dawn shirt that Avril gave me with a Bandaids sticker.
Avril hit the stage around 8:40 PM and as soon as she hit the catwalk we saw her looking over at Emily’s Bandaids sign
. I don’t remember much from the actual show (except that it rocked) but that’s okay since it was all caught on DVD
. Things to note about the show: Early on while Avril was on the catwalk performing I Don’t Have To Try, I waved at her and she waved back to me. At one point she mentioned that she had her mom, mother-in-law, and grandma in the audience and she had the entire crowd say hi to her grandma
. Then during the Girlfriend Remix while the dancers were on stage, Emily and I held up the Bandaids sign backwards so that the camera would pick it up and we got “Avril Bandaids <3’s Avril” on the big screen! Here’s to hoping it makes it onto the DVD
After the show, we said goodbye to all the Bandaiders and hit up a Pizza Pizza (a bit of a tradition now
) to rehash all the details