When We Were Young Festival (Las Vegas) Tour • Page 9

Its not dead fest did the rotating stage thing. Seemed to work fine....but it wasn't, 66 bands lmao

 

Yeah I wonder how many back-up bands WWWY have booked. I could easily see a few bands dropping now until then

 

I was there! Loved how they did that

 

And they did the wheel for the final 4 bands! (which i loved)

 

I went to Soundwave in 2013 which had this lineup jammed it one day and went off without a hitch (join me in wincing at the optics of an Australian festival using a native American theme to promote a festival).



Point being, unless there's a colossal fuck up from the organisers' end, it will be fine. There will be clashes, but Soundwave routinely had huge line-ups year in, year out and were able to pull off the one day festival very smoothly.

 

Can’t stop laughing at this

 

Didn’t Soundwave have like 6 or 7 stages though? The three stage thing is the only puzzling part of this. There’s like 25 bands I’d want to see and I’d be lucky to see half of them the how crammed the schedule is going to be.

 

I just can’t get over the fact that a band like Jimmy Eat World will play a 4-6 song set for this thing. The guarantee’s must have been pretty decent for this. I mean on the plus side I can see some pretty sick West Coast tour routings for fall of next year before/after this (lucky bastards).

 

Why do you think Jimmy Eat World is playing 4-6 songs? They're in the second tier of acts (JEW, Bright Eyes, Avril, BMTH, ADTR) and will 100% get a longer set than the lower tiers.

 

I think if you listen to well over 25 of the bands on the lineup, you'll have a great time, because there'll virtually always be a band you like playing.

If you listen to 5-10 including the headliners, you'll also have a good time, cause you'll get a headline set by one of your favorite bands, plus get to notch some off the bucket list.

If you listen to 10-25, you're probably gonna hate it, because odds are there will be so many schedule conflicts you won't get to see all the bands you want, and there will be gaps in the 12 hours where there's nothing to do.

 

It did indeed, 6-8. Three stages seems wild. Maybe the smaller bands will do mini sets, but yeah that does seem a bit odd.

 

You can stay at one stage all day and catch 20 acts. That's a hell of a day.

Dont understand why people are still questioning the logistics, I posted the schedule for their Once Upon a Time festival above. 3 rotating stages, 20 bands per stage. Acts seem broken down into 4 tiers. 20 minutes, 30 minutes, 40 minutes, 60 minutes.
Jimmy Eat World will play way more than 4 songs...

 

100% agree. I'm crunching the numbers right now with that mock schedule you posted and it honestly doesn't look THAT bad.

My guess is, if that schedule is similar to what they're doing, it'll be My Chem vs. Bright Eyes vs. I Prevail for that final slot.

 

Did a mock schedule based on the rap bill @manoverboard365 shared. Tried putting bands together by like genres/flow of a day that would make sense.

MAIN STAGE - 19 BANDS
1015 MY CHEMICAL ROMANCE
935 PARAMORE
830 BRING ME THE HORIZON
725 A DAY TO REMEMBER
635 AVRIL LAVIGNE
545 THE USED
510 TAKING BACK SUNDAY
435 PIERCE THE VEIL
400 THE ALL AMERICAN REJECTS
335 BOYS LIKE GIRLS
310 NECK DEEP
245 THE STARTING LINE
220 THURSDAY
140 ANBERLIN
120 LILHUDDY
100 3OH!3
1240 STATE CHAMPS
1220 WE THE KINGS
1200 MEET ME @ THE ALTAR

SECOND STAGE - 21 BANDS
1000 BRIGHT EYES
900 JIMMY EAT WORLD
805 AFI
715 ALKALINE TRIO
640 DASHBOARD CONFESSIONAL
615 MANCHESTER ORCHESTRA
550 THE STORY SO FAR
525 CAR SEAT HEADREST
500 SENSES FAIL
435 BAYSIDE
410 MAYDAY PARADE
345 THE MAINE
320 MOM JEANS
255 STORY OF THE YEAR
230 PVRIS
205 SAOSIN
140 TV GIRL
115 THE READY SET
1250 HAWTHORNE HEIGHTS
1225 THE RED JUMPSUIT APPARATUS
1200 THE LINDA LINDAS

SIDE STAGE - 23 BANDS
1030 I PREVAIL
950 DANCE GAVIN DANCE
910 SLEEPING WITH SIRENS
830 KNOCKED LOOSE
750 JXDN
710 MOTIONLESS IN WHITE
640 BLACK VEIL BRIDES
615 ICE NINE KILLS
550 SILVERSTEIN
530 PAYALE ROYALE
515 POPPY
450 NESSA BARRETT
415 WOLF ALICE
350 ACCEPTANCE
325 ATREYU
305 GLASSJAW
245 LA DISPUTE
155 ARMOR FOR SLEEP
125 FOUR YEAR STRONG
100 THE WONDER YEARS
1240 KITTIE
1220 THE GARDEN
1200 HORRORPOPS

 

That's a good as I could hope for. I've honestly never heard of I Prevail before, I guess they're popular?
It feels inevitable that Bright Eyes will close a stage and counter MCR. I can live with that...love Bright Eyes but this seems like a weird way to end that day. Just hoping another must see like JEW or Avril aren't closing a stage.

I'm guessing one stage will be the defacto main stage, 2nd stage focused on metal/heavier acts, and the 3rd for the less aggressive acts (ie Bright Eyes, Dashboard, Car Seat Headrest, Wolf Alice etc.)

 

Like I said, before, even if we equally distributed 30 minutes to each of the 22 bands on each stage (660 minutes), there'd still be an hour leftover to give to each stage's headliner, or divvy up between them and the direct support. It's not that hard to imagine working.

 

I don’t think many doubt the feasibility. I think people doubt spending that much on a festival full of super short sets for a lot of bands and tons of conflicts with bands you want to see. It’s definitely weird to for Live Nation to spend that much to book a ton of bands for a one day festival when you could spread it out over a weekend and make more money or book half of the bands and still sell a shit ton of tickets for a one day festival.

 

I can get down with that mock

 

Props for the effort in putting together the mock schedule

 

BTW I’d love to go to this, but standing for 11 hours sounds like torture and luckily most of these bands still tour pretty regularly. It’s a great lineup for sure and hopefully something they can do regularly. The west coast is definitely lacking when it comes to music festivals in this scene.

 

Someone brought up a good point earlier that they may be planning on adding a 2nd day of the same lineup if/when it sells out. In fact now that I think about it wasn't there a similar nostalgic 1 day fest recently where they did that? I remember Bahaus and the Yeah Yeah Yeahs played it among other big 90s/00s indie rock acts.

My biggest gripe is why the hell they booked acts like LilHuddy and Jxdn. They don't really go with the theme of the festival and it just takes time away from other sets. There's a few other acts on here that I actually love but also don't really fit the whole "nostalgic emo" theme the fest is going for. Just eats into set lengths.

 

Jimmy clashing with Paramore is a personal attack

 

"I have been the victim of a hate crime!"
"That's not what a hate crime is."
"WELL I HATED IT!"