When We Were Young Festival (Las Vegas) Tour • Page 119

I'm not all that hopeful for a second date. They announced the second date and then the weekends pretty promptly after the first date went on-sale and sold out. And that year there was a lot of hype/buzz around the festival which kinda feels like it won't be replicated this time around because it lacks the obvious hype/connection to the "scene" that they had locked in last year with MCR.

Purely anecdotal, but compared to the initial festival... I know zero people attending and have not heard anybody discussing it IRL.

When that first announcement was made, it was all people were talking about for a few weeks.

 

I’m gonna be my ticket for 300 if anyone is interested. I just don’t wanan go to Vegas again.

 

Yeah I'm not too sure theres enough people waiting to fill out a second date, especially with waitlisted folks getting day 1 tickets still

 

if there's another wind storm that cancels my show, i am going to throw such a fucking tantrum.

 

I was one of the people who had tickets to Saturday only and got majorly screwed by the cancellation (both financially and emotionally) and the whole thing just made me want to go more this year so I can get some kind of closure. Haven't gotten my tickets yet though

 

Exactly me too. But I got my ticket for next year already.

 

On paper, I actually think 2023 has a "bigger" line-up. There was a pretty quick drop-off from the top two artists last year into the second two lines or so. It feels like a slower downgrade this time around.

But it definitely doesn't pack the same "thematic" punch. What drove tickets last year was the headlines and the hype: "OMG! YOUR SCENE PHASE IS BACK... IN FESTIVAL LINE-UP POSTER FORM! EMO IS BACK, BABY!"

And that's just simply not there this time around. The connections are there. But for your average person? I dunno. You can't sum up the line-up in a single line or two. The buzzword "emo" just doesn't capture it in the same way it did in 2022. And certainly not for the people who stopped going to shows in college and would be leaning on it for nostalgia who are really the ones driving ticket sales for that whole thing.

 

*this year :)

 

right, right, right. whatever year it is.

 

It could also be logistics. Maybe they couldn't get green day for multiple days.

I'm not gonna argue that in terms of social media and overall scene, emo > pop punk. Athough this is way more MY style, I'm fully aware that "emo nights" across the country do very well for a reason, and when I play Fenix TX on a jukebox I get blank stares

It's a super fascinating festival because you're not getting the emo scene kids and you're not getting that Fat Wreck punk fest folks. You're getting me and God knows who lol

But... you're still getting green day and blink. Two bands that command $300+ price tags for GA. Offspring is 7th bill. Almost every band is a "get" im some capacity. We talk about how rare even a band like mxpx doing this is.

You can't argue the bands aren't bigger for 2023, but as just mentioned, the "emo scene" is the bigger scene. At least in the states

 

I still think its 2021, tbh

 

This wouldn’t surprise me at all. Green Day are presumably releasing a new record sometime this year, so you’ve gotta assume they’ll be doing their own headliner of sorts

 

Second day added

 

Fuckin’ finally

EDIT: Wait, where are you seeing this?

 

NICE

 

Finally!

 

Do they offer any kind of payment plan ?

 

Not for waitlist that I know of. I'm gonna wait until the regular sale

 

Oh ok hopefully we can get tickets

 

Day 2 VIPer checking in

 

I'm incredibly nervous they're gonna do the thing where the entire front section of a stage is gonna be vip. The leaked stage map from last year essentially

 

That's why I did it this year

 

Though I had a great time last year being non vip

 

Got tickets for day 2 through waitlist VIP as well! So going both days!