When We Were Young Festival (Las Vegas) Tour • Page 181

Well there goes my most anticipated album lol

 

It's just a 'woe is us' post. I'm sure exaggerated.

 

I have never beeen able to see them. This is painful

 

They had a side stage 7:30pm set time in 2022. I wonder if they got pissy about where they were slotted this year. Or just grumpy they had to play their album on a fest where 95% of bands are doing album plays.

 

Longwinded way of saying “eh, we just didn’t wanna do it anymore”

 

Maybe they had certain bands they didn’t want to go up against

 

Good bet this is the case.

 

They went directly against mainstage Avril in 2022 and then mainstage Death Cab once Avril dropped the second weekend. I remember them being sarcastic on stage making comments about Death Cab playing at the same time.

 

he’s definitely pissy about the album play which was announced almost a year ago lol

 

Aka we don’t want to rehearse songs we haven’t played in 15yrs and would rather play our greatest hits tour set.

kind of a shitty move by them.

 

What sort of "visual spectacle" were they doing on a festival that uses rotating stages and pretty sparse set pieces? This totally sounds like Tyson's just being a diva.

 

And then Tyson played last year with Now More Than Ever and they had about 50 people watching their set because nobody knew who they were.

 

Tyson's cheek bones probably. They just aren't ready yet.

 

Pretty bad look for the band but equally surprising the festival didn't give in and allow them to do a standard set instead of dropping altogether. Weird situation overall.

 

Looking for any reason to bail and probably found something minor so they could do so.

 

Why would they not want the money?

 

I saw them live a few years ago, and you aren't missing anything, it was one of the worst live sets I have had the displeasure of hearing

 

Looking at setlist.fm, I’m shocked they have basically only played 4-5 unique songs from AAR and Move Along over the last 10 years. I suppose they know they could make money with a Move Along tour and they haven’t done that either.

 

Ego is a hell of a drug

 

I'm not following where everyone is getting this as fact?

 

I really don't think not doing the album play is the reason they dropped. I'm sure both the band and the management would prefer they stayed on the lineup and just played a normal set.

It seems more likely to me they're upset with some aspect of how they're slotted on the bill. Either not being mainstage, being pitted in a conflict, or not being given the production accomdoations they expected.

 

As people have been saying, probably had some production issue that wasn't working. Band probably lost a bunch of $$$ as I'm sure you're penalized for pulling out of fests last minute unless it's for certain reasons.

 

It just seems too coincidental that the only band that has been openly against performing their album is the one dropping out.

 

My only real question is does anyone think they’ll get a replacement? I would assume it wouldn’t be an album play but who would even be available?!

Maybe Boys Like Girls? Yellowcard?

 

Boys Like Girls are in town for the sideshow the day before so it could happen.