Interview

Dans un nouvel interview d' Avril, on apprend une ou deux petites choses...

Tout d' abord, parfois, la grand mère d' Avril la suivra dans le tour bus.Il y aura également sa mère.

Au cours de la tournée, Avril interprètera Losing Grip en acoustique.Elle jouera également l' intro de Runaway à la batterie.

Son frère Matt fera une apparition dans le clip de Th eBest Damn Thing.Comme il l' a confié sur son MySpace, Evan devrait également participer à ce clip.

Enfin, Avril n' interprétera pas le refrain de Girlfriend dans les 8 langues enregistrées l' année dernière (français, japonais, allemand...) puisque ce serait pour elle trop compliquée. De plus, pour elle, ces versions sont destinées uniquement au studio.


Voici toute l' interview:

It will be a family affair when Canada's pop-punk princess Avril Lavigne takes her live show across the country next week.

The spunky songstress says she'll kick off a high-energy tour in Victoria with husband Deryck Whibley watching from the sidelines and will bring her older brother along to help with security.

More of the Lavigne clan will join her once she hits Ontario in April, she said Monday in a phone interview from Los Angeles.

"I'm going to have my mom and grandma come out to the Toronto show and then I'm going to have them ride on the bus with me to the next show," Lavigne said with giddy laughter.

"I'm like, Grandma, you want to come on the bus?"

The outspoken Lavigne, who in past interviews has detailed a fondness for wine and hard

liquor, admitted having her mom and grandma on the tour could cramp her rock-star lifestyle.

But the 23-year-old said it's important to surround herself with people she can trust, noting her brother Matthew has been touring with her for years.

"It's just really nice to have someone on the road who really has your best interest at heart and someone who really cares about you," she said of working with Matthew, 24.

"You have a million people that you hire or who work for you but it's nice to have someone that you love there. We're very close and it's been a really great experience for our relationship."

Matthew is also a favourite guest star in Lavigne's music videos, she said. He appeared in the "Girlfriend" shoot as a bass player, and will also cameo in the video for the next single, "Best Damn Thing," she said.

"I like to put my brother and sister in videos," she said.

As for the tour, which kicks off in Victoria on March 5, Lavigne promised a high-energy dance party that will include a recording of her version of Joan Jett's song, "Bad Reputation."

She said the cover song was recorded at home with Whibley producing and will be paired with a video montage that will play while she's off-stage changing outfits.

The tour will also include her drumming debut on the song "Runaway" and an acoustic version of her 2003 single "Losing Grip."

"That was always one of my favourite songs but sometimes, you know, you get bored playing songs the same way so you've got to switch it up," she said of "Losing Grip."

The concert will also feature six dancers and some dance-like behaviour from Lavigne, who has just wrapped up three weeks of rehearsals.

"I don't really dance and it's not so much dancing," she said.

"It's like, my moves incorporated in (the choreography) . . . like march, march, march, punch, kick. You know? Nothing crazy."

Lavigne said she's preparing for the show by practising piano half an hour a day, eating healthy (no dairy), doing yoga and building up cardio strength with a bit of running.

Following a Canadian leg, Lavigne's tour is set to visit cities in the United States and include stops in France, Italy, Sweden, Finland, Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania.

But even though the pop star recorded the chorus to last year's summer hit, "Girlfriend," in eight different languages, she said she won't be singing those foreign versions for European audiences.

"That song's really hard, that was a studio thing," she said of "Girlfriend," released in various markets with lyrics sung in French, Portuguese, German, Italian, Spanish, Japanese and Mandarin.

"The song is really fast and, like, other languages have more syllables than the English language, so it would be really really hard to do it live."

Lavigne's Canadian tour includes stops in British Columbia, Alberta, Saskatchewan, Manitoba and Ontario.