Munich - September 26th 2004 by AvrilPhil - Bonez Tour

[Sharifa]

Concert: Munich
Reviewer: AvrilPhil
Date: September 26th 2004



so, lets get this started.
i arrived arround 3:30pm at the olympiapark in munich got a parking ticket and went to the olympia hall where the concert was going to take place. since i was going alone i was looking for some ppl from avrilfans.de to get a good place in the queue. after finding them and queuing up avril started her soundcheck. it was kinda long, like 1 hr (bowling for soup did theirs before). she also practiced a bit on the piano, which was needed, she messed up the beginning of one song ^^.
so, after the soundcheck i was a bit bored. well, i got a beer and walked a bit around, looked through the windows inside and checked if i could enter the hall through the press entry (which didnt work of course ). some time later a friend of mine arrived, who won in a competition from a local radio station. the prize was free tickets for the show and a meet&greet with av after the show. so we went to the van of the radiostation and told that guy that were here and want our tickets. i wasnt really a winner but that dude also gave me a ticket and a red sticker which allowed me to go to the meet&greet. the time was now around 6:30pm, the time the securities openend the doors and let the ppl inside. i was kinda pissed cos the radio dude wanted to do interviews with us (which of course took time), so i feared not to get a good spot at the front when the concert starts. but since we got that nice "prize" we stayed and did that interview. afterwards i sold the ticket i got some months before. then we finally made it into the venue.
in there we walked a bit around and checked out the av merch, which was very expensive (tshirts starting at 25€, sweater going from 35-55€ i think). we didnt really want to buy anything so i didnt really care .
bowling for soup was supposed to begin their set at around 8pm, so we went down into the arena and got a place in the center (good sight, not too crowded, good sound...okok a bit far away from av, but since we were gonna see her afterwards anyway it didnt matter that much). bfs started their set with 1985, which rocked. that fat guitarist was the most funny dude ever ^^. they said that this was their first show in germany ever. bfs was very very good, and the crowd accepted them very good and started jumping screaming n stuff, so did we. between the songs they talked very often with the crowd and did lots of jokes (also, their were complaining of the strong german beer ^^). i dunno really what other songs they did, but i remember girl all the bad guys what, cos i like that one (bfs:"this ones for avril"). after 45mins they were finished and some roadies prepared the stage for av and the guys.
this took another 30 mins i think and when that bonez tour banner came down from the ceiling the crowd was going crazy. then av and the band appeared and stared the show with he wasnt. after that mhe. then i dont really remember the order. there were lots of let go songs like sk8er boi, im with you, mobile, complicated (which had a very special intro with av singing lalala and devin playing that on the guitar). of course many songs of ums where there too. she also did tomorrow (i think), she played it on her own without the band on an acoustic guitar. same with nobodys home (the band joined in later i think). this was very special cos av prove that she really can play guitar and can get the crowd to freak out evern without band, just her voice and an acoustic guitar. during the concerts roadies brought a piano for forgotten and slipped away (again just her and the piano). she also did one acoustic with devin, dunno which one though.
during the songs av didnt really talk that much, but tried to keep up the contact to the crowd, like when she was talking and talking about one song and finally said "ill just shut up now and play *laugh*"
her set was about 1hr and 30 mins long, thats like the double time of last year so yay.
her voice was really awesome, it was in pitch all the time, sounded so great, apart from one part, but thats ok. also the band did a very good job. devin made the let go songs sound more rockier and even craig learned to play guitar ^^ he also did some of the backup vocals in some songs. during the songs and inbetween you could really see that avril was having very much fun, she was smiling all the time and was enjong that night. did i mention that she was looking awesome that night? no? well She DID!
she was wearing a black long sleeve with red something on it, might have been a skull or something and tight black pants, dammmmn HOT n straight blonde hair, not that much eye shaddow too.
so, when the lights went on again all the ppl left the arena. the meet&greet winners gathered at the stage and were brought backstage to a room where we waited for av to arrive.
when she finally got into that room we were brought in groups of 4 into that room to see talk etc to her. during that waiting time i got really excited, but after some mins it was our turn, so we went into the room and i went straight to av saying something like "hiiii" (it was a very sweet hi *g* though my voice was almost gone cos of the singing and screaming during her show). then followed some random talking like how are you doing, whoa nice show bla bla ^^ i also asked her what the 2004 eyes thingy means (the a nswer is in that topic). well, then she signed our stuff (shirts that is) and a inofficial bio. whe she saw that she was like, uh whats that? well, an inofficial bio. oh, nice. when she went through it a bit and realized its quite huge she said "holy shit!" after that we did some photos. then the security "made" us go: "get out of here NOW guys"...well we did. while leaving i saw that one dude i thought ive seen before. i now found it it was matt (lavigne). we were looking in each others face for some time and were like see ya then. if i had know it was him, id have talnd (me = idiot -_-). so, after leaving the room we had to wait a bit there. so we talkd to the girl who arrived with av. she said her names tina (dunno if i remember that right) and that shes avs personal assistant. well, that sounded interesting so we talked abit to here, what her job looks like and a bit about the concert. i said that i liked devins guitar, and she was like do you know evan? i said yes n she started: oh hes sooo good and sweet i like him so much...well i was like ookk. so i asked her how evans band project was going, though she pretended that its secret and that she cant tell us about it an bla bla. i remember me saying if you retire call me ill take your job, then the radio dude arrived and did another interview with us. we told him a bit about the concert and the meet&greet and that were so thankful to that station (*cough*). after that we left the venue where the roadies were pulling out the boxes with the equipment.
we met with some other ppl outside and i thought of joining them in driving to duesseldorf where shes playing atm, but decided not to (work today, plus that show was so good, cant get any better). well we didnt wait for her to come out, cos we were sure shed first celebrate her bday a bit so we left around 11:30pm i think. in fact she did come out again some time after 0:00, dunno exactly. so i went to the parking thingy got my car, started that navigation and drove home.

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nah not really. this concert was so much better than last year. the stage design was much better, with much more light effects and lots of video clips in the background. for ex. some of av in a gym working out a bit, some music video clips and stuff.
for me it was like the best day ever, free entry, very good show, nice ppl, actually meet avril afterwards. cant be any better (ok it could but whatever )

hm did i miss out anything...mh, pics later, vids too, audio too (all crappy quality )

bbye

phil