Gavin DeGraw concert in Munich - Club Ampere

I discovered Gavin DeGraw too late. One week to late to be exact. I was in Sweden and a friend of us went to "some guy" 's concert in Stockolm. And a week after he came back, he made us listen to it, the guy was called Gavin De Graw... and the music was so good we all wished we were more spontaneous people and had just jumped in the bus with him the week before.

Happily for me, God is a loving God. He let Gavin do a second album, and therefore, another European tour for its self-titled "Gavin DeGraw" album. With a stop in Munich. YEAHHHHHHHHHHH!

So i jumped on the tickets and called my we-love-Gavin-DeGraw friends and off we went for a girls night out.

We waited 20minutes under the rain in front of the Ampere (Muffathalle) but did not even mind. We were all three mentally screaming Gaaaaaaaaavin like groupies.

When we got in, surprise. The Ampere club is even smaller than we thought. Maybe room for 300 people. 400 max. From where we stand, the 2 most important features were 2 meters away: bar and stage. Cheers.

Two drinks later, the pre-band shows up. usually, preband are boring because even if they are ok, you are not here to listen to them anyway. Sometimes, on top of that, they suck. Well the pre-band was actually a pre-guy, Jack Savoretti, absolutely adorable, with a great voice, eye-lashes so long that you can't help thinking it is a waste on a man, great songs and a huge potential to become an international heart breaker with his charming smile (ladies, with dimples!!!!).

He is not exactly what the Germans would call a Party-lion, and most of his songs would easily get you to spend a tear or two, but he had enough charisma and put enough of himself in interpreting the songs, that one could not just look somewhere else. And of course, we immediately bought his cd. Songs are pretty deep and fit with the "tortured artist" image. Listening to him was nothing close to boring and we can only hope hearing more of him soon.

And then came Mr. DeGraw: more groupies screaming, this time out loud and just for the love of screaming. It was just perfect. In the beginning, he told us to "sing as much as (we) want, as loud as (we) want", so we did. The small club allowed a pretty personnal contact (actually he was so close to us that now i feel like i could call him Gav') and Gavin is a real stage man. Funny, looking good, anything but standing still, holding hands, smiling, jumping, actually talking to the public, and most of all looking like he really enjoyed singing for us.

There's nothing i hate more than an artist singing bored. If you wanted to hear the songs exactly like on the cd, you'd just stay home and save 30 euros. But Gavin DeGraw did not just sing, he actually interpreted all his songs, and that was great. We all felt great and wished it would have lasted longer.

Among others he interpreted: Chariot, Cheated on me, I don't want to be, Follow through, in love with a girl, Nice to meet you (anyway), Crush, Chemical party, She holds a key, Next to me, I have you to thank, Untamed, We belong together.
Then I am not sure anymore.

Anyway, it was a great evening and obviously, as a groupie, I went home with the Tour poster.

Gaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaavin!!!!!!