When We Were Young Festival (Las Vegas) Tour • Page 17

Interested to see if this succeeds (which all signs currently point to it making a ton of money) how they go about making this a reoccurring festival. Like who didn't make the cut this year that could carry the same weight for the next one.

 

So, what's everyone's Top 10?

1. Paramore
2. My Chemical Romance
3. Bring Me the Horizon
4. The Wonder Years
5. Car Seat Headrest
6. Jimmy Eat World
7. The Starting Line
8. Bright Eyes
9. The Maine
10. Knocked Loose

 

Fob, panic, blink, soco, yellowcard, nfg, motion city, coheed, the format, death cab, etc. As stacked as the current line up is, there are plenty left to do it just as big next year if they want.

 

Why is no one talking about the fact that Kittie is playing this?

 

They should just do this every couple of years but switch up the target genre. Like, the next one should be a legit emo festival with say American Football, Cursive, The Anniversary, Rainer Maria, The Promise Ring, The Get Up Kids, Mineral, Death Cab, Pedro the Lion, Braid, Cap’n Jazz, Jawbreaker etc. headlining (not all of them obviously but any handful) with mid tier acts like The Hotelier, Joyce Manor, Jeff Rosenstock, Hop Along, Tigers Jaw, Snowing, Merchant Ships, Midwest Pen Pals, Empire Empire, The Brave Little Abacus, Julien Baker, CSTVT, Alex G, The World Is, etc. and include like smaller indie punk/emo acts that have been around a while like Speedy Ortiz, Diet Cig, Slaughter Beach, Dog, Ratboys, Remember Sports, Charly Bliss, Dowsing, etc.

and since who knows if this type of festival would sell with who I mentioned as possible headliners (I think so but if not), get Fugazi, Rites of Spring, and/or Sunny Day Real Estate to reunite and headline

 

1. Paramore
2. Bring Me The Horizon
3. Pierce The Veil
4. The Story So Far
5. Dance Gavin Dance
6. Silverstein
7. Sleeping With Sirens
8. Neck Deep
9. PVRIS
10. I Prevail
11. State Champs
12. Neck Deep
13. Avril Lavigne
14. Four Year Strong
15. Knocked Loose

Left MCR off because I already have tickets to see them headline in my hometown.

 

Someone made a deathcore version of this

 

A guy on Instagram named OC Sellout (he posts about shows/fests happening in the area) made a list of bands that could play next year if they were to do it again. Could see a lot of these happening (sans the three in the middle lol)

 

Also, it’s very odd to me that the big pop punk bands of the early-mid 2000’s (NFG, Sum 41, Good Charlotte, Simple Plan) didn’t make the lineup

 

I’d love this. Would love to see more of the old-school 90’s emo acts play shows again

 

I'd laugh if the next When We Were Young Fest was straight 00s nu-metal. Korn, Limp Bizkit, Staind, Deftones, Powerman 5000, System of a Down, Orgy, POD, Disturbed, Crazy Town, Adema, Papa Roach, Hoobastank, Puddle of Mudd

Actually surprised no one's tried that in like Florida.

 

Yeah, outside of the headliners (Paramore & MCR) the mid-undercard is very early 2010's: ADTR, BMTH, The Story So Far, Sleeping With Sirens, Pierce The Veil, Black Veil Brides.

This fest seems more targeted at the Old-GenZ/Young-Millenial audience than people who were actually young when MCR/Paramore were at their peak.

 

And my top 10 sets

1. My Chemical Romance
2. Paramore
3. Jimmy Eat World
4. The Starting Line
5. Avril
6. The Maine
7. Wolf Alice
8. Manchester Orchestra
9. Bright Eyes
10. Meet Me @ The Altar

 

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I’m gonna have to start charging royalties lol

 

I’m seeing Alkaline Trio and Dashboard at the Vagrant show in May so I feel ok leaving them off, and I’ll hopefully be seeing Thursday in a couple weeks. Soooo:

Paramore
AFI
TSSF
AAR
Avril
Poppy
Jimmy Eat World
Acceptance
TSL
AFS

I’ve never seen AAR, Avril, Poppy, or Acceptance so catching them will be fun. And TSL and AFS never really tour around me anymore so those 6 bands would be top priority for me.

 

Idk about that…Dashboard, AFI, Alkaline Trio, Jimmy Eat World, Taking Back Sunday, The Used, All American Rejects, Bayside, Thursday, Anberlin, Hawthorne Heights, Boys Like Girls, Senses Fail, etc…that’s all prime early-mid 2000s age haha

Edit—because I forgot Bright Eyes and hell, even Avril

 

Absolutely no way some of those bands on that instagram post weren't approached and just said "nah"

especially some of the bigger acts, I promise you they at least called someone who works for blink, fob, panic, hell even underoath

 

also: is mcr gonna postpone their american tour? they're currently scheduled to play at the golden knights' arena in vegas literally three weeks before this fest. maybe that doesn't matter but would normally not be something a fest would be cool with

 

Radius clause. Maybe the contract didn’t include anything like that. Or yeah, maybe it’s postponed.

 

That show has been sold out for two years now. I don't think it matters at this point now.

 

And this show will be too. Neither will affect the other cause they're just too goddamn big.

 

no it would still matter I'd think for a normal fest (why book mcr if all the mcr fans are already seeing them play a longer set in their city 3 wks before) but what's probably most likely I guess is the fest organizers don't care because most people going to this aren't gonna be from LV

also that mcr vegas show is very much not sold out fwiw

 

Yeah if that Vegas headline show is also LiveNation, then I don’t think the radius clause matters lol