When We Were Young Festival (Las Vegas) Tour • Page 162

Despite all the repeats this year, it's crazy how many more acts they have to choose from for a 2025 edition.

 

so they found the worst female group of the last 20 years to get added lol

 

Which band are you referring to?

 

I’m assuming Millionaires lol

 

I'm actually super happy with the 2024 lineup. This is mostly NOT my side of the scene. They loaded it with a ton of bands I really don't like.

Why is that good for me?

Because now 2025 will be any band that hasn't been tapped yet and more my side.

Aka

Sugarcult , matches, allister, mest, midtown. Reel big fish, Weezer,

 

Where the hell is Reel Big Fish anyways???

And forget Brokencyde, they should bring back the Icy Hot Stuntaz

 

Brokencyde only worked because of MySpace and that very niche scene within the scene. I sincerely doubt any of those dudes would want to play those roles again

 

Veronicas would be a good grab.

 

Not that it matters, but they played the festival last month

 

I was just thinking this week how The Get Up Kids doing Something To Write Home About would’ve been a great add and realized they didn’t play 2022 or 2023. Feels so weird that they were grabbed

 

RBF silently broke up during covid

 

i have been surprised the Matches haven't turned up on any of the first two WWWY's (or three, now) -- as they do seem to pop up every 3-4 years with gigs here and there.

Then again, Shawn is currently an accomplished, bestselling children's book illustrator out on a tour of auditoriums and book stores and it looks pretty awesome. so he's kinda busy as it is ...

 

and became Sleep Token

 

And now I'm a sleep token fan

 

I'm surprised that they haven't snagged TGUK yet. But even more shocked that they didn't try to get Chris Carrabba to pull double duty and do Further Seems Forever - The Moon Is Down.

As far as smaller acts, still surprised they've gone three years without The Early November, Mae, Midtown, Rufio, Hot Rod Circuit and Hellogoodbye.

 

Midtown is really shocking considering they had their big return last year too.

 

Coheed posted that they are indeed playing good Apollo in its entirety. Front to back.

 

I'm 50-50 on the Get Up Kids. Not that they wouldn't be a good fit... But I could see the offer having come in this year and Pryor giving it a quick "no." Same with Against Me!, honestly.

(I put "honestly" in there because it felt weird ending the sentence with an exclamation mark that I didn't really mean. LOL)

Aaron and Scott did Chris Demakes' podcast a few months back and the word "hiatus" was used a few times. So not sure they're broken up so much as... Just not doing much of anything for the foreseeable future?

They were very tight-lipped as to reasons why, though.

I'm a little surprised they didn't sneak onto the 2024 line-up too. Though I was also admittedly a little surprised at how, uh, underwhelming their reunion wound up being. I guess I just expected it to be a bigger deal than it wound up being.

Cobra Starship seems like a bigger deal.

 

LMAOOOOOOOO

 

Transit - Listen and Forgive or Joyride and I'm in

 

They played last year and now he's doing Cobra for 2024

 

Midtown did not play When We Were Young 2022 ... though I wish they did

 

I didn’t watch it, I only read a comment from someone on Reddit that did, but Roger from LTJ said on a livestream a while back that apparently Aaron got really fed up with their heavy touring schedule and wanted a break. I know Aaron and his wife moved to Florida during the pandemic too.

I did come across his wife’s Instagram recently and it looks like they’ve moved back to OC. Idk if this signifies that the band might be back in action soon or what, but something to note…

 

Ooooh wow I definitely missed up that and the MCR tour, wild