When We Were Young Festival (Las Vegas) Tour • Page 199

Okay I'm hearing this from friends who don't typically mosh but then again idk what the side stages or the early pits were like. I'm not talking the end...hey, even for me, by the time Green Day came around my tank was on empty

 

I will repeat what I say every time TBS live is criticized...if you are going to see TBS for some incredible musicianship you are at the wrong show....you go to see TBS live to jump around and scream lyrics with a crowd of like minded fans

 

But it's not about simply the act of moshing, and i think that's something that a lot of anti-mothers dont get.... there's a sort of energy that a crowd with "movement" bring vs no movement. It also makes it tougher to go stage to stage without movement. I am not a violent mosher by any means, but if i can't hop up and down and have a good time, then I'm not interested.

I pick my shows based on my assumption of their being good movement. If I don't think that's gonna happen then I skip it

 

unpopular opinion: moshing is fine, crowd surfing has always bothered me, especially jumping on people or trying to pull up on someone to get up. I'm a bigger dude, so I understand how "first world problems" this sounds since I can always see the stage well, but I absolutely hate getting jumped on unexpectedly or having someone think that just because I'm tall means you can use my body as a ladder to get on top of the crowd.

 

I think everybody's definition of "moshing" is also fully different. Whenever I hear that a show like this has "no moshing" or whatever, my brain auto-corrects it to "people weren't really moving or dancing at all."

Which isn't all that uncommon for your average festival. Especially one that draws in people who don't usually go to shows.

 

you do you, I stand by what I said

 

I hear all of this....one unexpected crowd surfer kicked me so hard in the back of the head once I remember literally seeing stars like in the cartoons....nowadays Id never be able to hold up so Im willing to bet a large portion of WWWY were elder emos like myself

 

Wait, were you at the Armor for Sleep set on Saturday? There were two guys next to me wearing this and I almost asked to take a pic because it was so cool haha

 

It just feels like the absolute most selfish thing to do at a concert, though I know it's a rush for the individual and bands like it when people are participating in that way, but absolutely no one helping move you through the crowd is having a good time in that moment.

Don't get my millennial ass started on people videoing themselves while crowd surfing. Literally the dorkiest thing I've seen at concerts lately.

 

i was never a crowd surfer (mostly because i feel bad, ive always been at least 150-170lbs in my life). It doesn't bother me when it's a younger kid, a girl or whatever, because i want them to have a good time and every younger person should experience a surf once...... but yes, a few shoes to the head and my annoyance lvel goes up

but thats why i tend to avoid the front. A show i went to recently, a jolly big man picked me up and said "you're going up"...which was funny and made me feel like i was 16 so that was funny

 

Literally trying to think who could headline this next year that would make sense.

No Doubt? They’d want too much.

 

Be curious how this festival operates in a world where Warped Tour exists in a similar format

 

I think I am too old for festivals now lol. Glad I did the first two years of this. I’d maybe go back to adjacent if they ever did it again because it’s close and over two days.

 

If you need to hop around (and probably land on peoples feet) I’m not sure what you’re enjoying is the live music.

 

Feel like it’s gonna be an off year next year unless they repeat the album gimmick with different albums. Too many repeat acts already and Warped Tour is coming back

 

If they want to keep with the emo/pop punk adjacent bands, and if they want no-repeat headliners, they can try getting a Panic At The Disco reunion, or maybe going for a band like Twenty One Pilots

 

Didn’t Panic “break up” like a year ago?

 

But it is though. That's what got me into punk rock shows (and adjacent genres) 23 years ago It's not just seeing the band live, if i wanted that i could watch youtube or go to a seated show, but if i'm going to GA i'm going for the experience and yes, "dancing" at a concert, is part of that experience. 207 pits later and still trying to hold on. Hey 2023 was a blast, no complaints.

There's a reason why a lot of bands encourage movement. It's all about energy. Standing and recorrding with a cell phone isn't energy

 

I thought it was mentioned that WWWY was gonna take 2025 off? Or maybe I imagined that.

I think the remaining headliner options are No Doubt, Panic and Weezer. Otherwise they could go with scene adjacent bands like Deftones, Linkin Park, The Cure etc.

 

I think they could afford No Doubt. It's just a matter of whether or not they'd want to do it. Next year may be the year they have to start repeating names and "branching" out a bit more. The Killers would work too, actually... Though it would feel like a drop in "uniqueness."

Things open up a bit more when you dip into the sub-headliner category (Weezer, Deftones, CHVRCHES, Turnstile, Sublime, and Ke$ha all immediately come to mind as names they haven't dipped into yet that kinda fit the mold without tweaking things too much).

Depends on how Warped structures things. If they focus strictly on emo/2000s Hot Topic nostalgia? Then yeah, it'll be weird.

But with Lyman's involvement in Warped, I suspect what we'll see might be something that looks more like WWYF meets No Values. And quite a bit more younger/current acts.

 

I could also see them doing a lineup similar to 2023, but also throwing in some older Epitaph/Fat Wreck bands like Bad Religion or Descendents

 

Hah! We were posting about the same time. Panic! and Linkin Park are two I hadn't thought of that could work.

I doubt the Cure would do this sort of festival, though, TBH. The money wouldn't really matter and I'm pretty sure they wouldn't be too keen on their shortened set length.

 

You do you. I stand by what I said.

 

Also, thinking watching on YouTube is the same as being in person. Holy shit.

 

I’m the moshing police and you’re all arrested