Wednesday, 6 August 2008

Avril Lavigne's China tour dates materializing

Tickets for Shanghai concert are nowadays on sale




BEIJING -- Ticketmaster has disclosed details of Avril Lavigne's tour in China.

Tickets for one concert, set for Oct. 4 in Shanghai, are now on sale. According to a Ticketmaster statement, Lavigne's six-city China tour in September and October (division of her ongoing 'The Best Damn Tour 2008') was scheduled "after her 2007 Shanghai (Qizhong Tennis Center) concert that had left thousands of fans asking for more.'"

The Shanghai concert will take place at the Shanghai Stadium, known in Chinese as the "80,000 people's stadium" for its enceinte capacity. Tickets are available online at ticketmaster.cn, or at Ticketmaster's Shanghai box office at a 10-tiered terms range from 200 yuan ($29) to 1600 yuan ($234).

Venues and ticket information have so far to be released for the rest of the tour, just the other dates have been confirmed. They are: Macau (Sept. 26), Shenzhen (Sept. 28), Chengdu (Sept. 30), Lijiang (Oct. 2), and Beijing (Oct. 6). Billboard.biz reported on the plans for the go on June 4.

According to the Ticketmaster statement: "This will be Avril's first full-production duty tour in China, featuring sophisticated stage settings and an upgraded collection of make songs ... and a pinko piano."