The tour is to promote Lavigne's new album, The Best Damn Thing, and sees promotional dates intermingled with summer festival appearances. The latter confirmed so far include festivals in Ireland, Switzerland, Turkey and Japan.
This will be Jim Yakabuski's third tour mixing FoH for Lavigne. For the first two he was working freelance, but he is now employed by LMG and reports, "We used D5s on FoH and monitors for the last tour and we had great results. They had an impeccable performance record, but monitor engineer Matt Peskie and I also love the small footprint and the amount of inputs, outputs and processing that's available in a console of this size.
"We really like the fact that you can get 112 inputs into a console that is so small, which allows us to run the Avril show and the opening act from the same mixer. The only outboard gear needed is any specialised processing the specific engineers might desire. The onboard gates and comps are very nice and I intend to dig deeper into the effects portion of the console this tour to see how much I can do within the snapshots."
(Jim Evans)
