When We Were Young Festival (Las Vegas) Tour • Page 214

She shared the wwwy line up on her instagram story, so I think she is likely in

 

instead of The Movielife, they should have gotten Nightmare of You

 

Feels like they are banking on the festival itself drawing people in at this point and not as much the lineup.

 

I mean....Ryan Ross was never going to play High Hopes live. Still the possibility of a split set / lineup. Anberlin had both vocalists just this year.

 

Collect a few million for one show for the band that's been just you, and more successful as just you, seems a lot more tempting than reuniting and splitting the money with some people you don't get along with and haven't talked to in two decades. Just my guess though.

 

Well when you put it that way we sound like idiots!

 

I thought the PFTW arena tour did pretty well. It was the VLV tour that was pretty much half-arenas.

 

Yeah, I mean, obviously, this is anecdotal, but I saw that tour in Nashville at Bridgestone Arena, which holds 20,000, and it was sold out, people losing their fucking minds. That was when "High Hopes" was going supernova and was seemingly the most inescapable song in the world, so things were definitely at a peak for him then. His story is a fascinating case-study in peaks and valleys (i.e. Fever to Pretty.Odd, PFTW to Viva Las Vengeance).

 

I could be totally wrong, I found some stats on that tour and they were drawing 10-11k in arenas that held 20k+. There’s a video from Denver on YouTube that is the full set and it didn’t look particularly full.

 

Most arena shows for concerts don’t actually hold 20K - like the Cavs arena holds 20,100 for Cavs games but a concert the cap is like, anywhere between 13 & 15K depending on stage set up and how many sections/seats are blocked off behind the stage.

Regardless - I am fairly certain the PFTW tour was wildly successful and if it had not been, why would he try arenas again just 2/3 years later?



The Wikipedia page for the tour also shows attendance for each show and not sure how accurate it is, but looks like mostly sellouts.

Pray for the Wicked Tour - Wikipedia

 

Fair enough, I was going off of this and saw Staples Center listed at 13K when the concert cap is supposed to be 20,000, but their stage blocked off a good chunk of the arena from what I saw on Youtube.

I guess Panic is way bigger than I thought; I always considered them as a band with a couple really big songs but not a ton going on between Fever and "High Hopes".

 

The two Chicago/Chicago area PFTW shows were completely sold out. The next tour? Nope.

 

Yeah, the Cleveland (PFTW) tour was sold out in Cleveland and I specifically remember that show because Northeast Ohio was essentially completely shutdown due to temperatures in the below zeros. Schools and businesses were closed for 3 or 4 days.

 

eh, that doesn't feel super worth it for me. maybe i'll fly in and go one day

 

Honestly, I'm not going to lie, I just now realized that High Hopes isn't a Fall Out Boy song. Literally thought it was FOB.

 

Knocked Loose is killing it. I really want to see them, someday.

Also Alexisonfire billed at the very bottom is a crime imo

 

Surprised TBS are back again. They tour so much and their performance seemed so bad this year, but I guess that would never have played in as this lineup would’ve been in place well before that.

As others have said, this festival has peaked in terms of its overall pull. This lineup is cool but it doesn’t seem like it would sell better than the previous years.

I’m sure I could be underestimating Panic’s ability to sell tickets, but we’ll see.

 

I assume TBS is a pretty cheap get and a big enough name that despite how awful reviews are for their live performance, they’ll still get people to watch for the nostalgia.

 

This is definitely the least I’ve been excited about a WWWY lineup. It still has a good 8 bands I want to see, but that’s a big drop off from the list of 20 I put together before this year’s festival.

I’m really excited for the letlive., Set Your Goals, and Straylight Run reunions. I’m always down to see The Movielife, and seeing Arms Length at this festival will be a special thing.

I’ll probably still go this year, but it doesn’t have me jumping in excitement like every other year has.

 

Honestly, if P!ATD wasn’t playing, I’d bet you anything there’d be significantly less hype

 

I think the bands in the middle on the poster should be read as the same status as bands like Gaslight Anthem, Bad Religion or INK and not read from top to bottom. In the 2022 poster Jimmy Eat World was at the bottom of the middle column but their font was bigger, same way Alexisonfire this year. On the same way Jack's Mannequin is a bigger get than Breathe Caroline, and TSSF is bigger than Sunami.

 

If I go I'll probably risk buying on resale. I booked a hotel now last night just in case.

 

To clarify, the middle column is billed above the side bands. So Alexisonfire is technically above Bad Religion, Ice Nine Kills, Motionless in White, etc.

 

I'm on the same boat, i've typically bought the tickets as they went on sale. I wonder how it went for those that bought aftermarket wristbands at the last minute for this year's when we were young.

 

Talked to my fiancée and we’re in if we get tier 1 but only tier 1