• Music
  • 23 Nov 04
Girl, you'll be a woman soon
Girl, you'll be a woman soon
Colin Carberry
Colin Carberry

One of the biggest teen rock sensations of the early noughties, Avril Lavigne continues to draw the black-clad adolescent hordes in record numbers. But can Canada’s most famous skater girl make the transition to adulthood without losing the affection of her notoriously capricious audience?

It’s two o’clock in the afternoon – four hours before doors open, seven before their pint-sized heroine is due on stage –and already a shady army of teen pop orcs are laying siege to the front entrance of The Odyssey Arena.

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