When We Were Young Festival (Las Vegas) Tour • Page 167

1. A Day To Remember - Homesick
2. Neck Deep - Life's Not Out To Get You
3. Dance Gavin Dance - Mothership
4. Armor For Sleep - What To Do When You Are Dead
5. Chiodos - Alls Well That Ends Well
6. Cartel - Chroma
7. Underoath - They're Only Chasing Safety
8. Coheed & Cambria - Good Apollo, I'm Burning Star IV
9. Saosin - Self-Titled
10. The Starting Line - Say It Like You Mean It
11. Say Anything - Is A Real Boy
12. Silverstein - Discovering The Waterfront
13. Movements - Feel Something
14. Senses Fail - Still Searching
15. Fall Out Boy
16. My Chemical Romance - The Black Parade
17. Four Year Strong - Enemy Of The World
18. Motion City Soundtrack - Commit This To Memory
19. Hawthorne Heights - The Silence In Black & White
20. New Found Glory - Sticks & Stones
21. Bayside - Self-Titled
22. State Champs - The Finer Things
23. Jimmy Eat World - Bleed American
24. Thursday - Full Collapse
25. Sleeping With Sirens - Let's Cheers To This
26. Dashboard Confessional - Dusk & Summer
27. The Devil Wears Prada - Plagues
28. The Wonder Years - The Greatest Generation
29. Saves The Day - Stay What You Are
30. Anberlin - Never Take Friendship Personal
31. The Used - In Love & Death
32. Story Of The Year - Page Avenue
33. LS Dunes
34. 3OH!3 - Want
35. Mayday Parade - A Lesson In Romantics
36. Emery - The Weak's End
37. Atreyu - The Curse
38. The Red Jumpsuit Apparatus - Don't You Fake It
39. Mom Jeans - Best Buds
40. Pierce The Veil - Collide With The Sky
41. The Forecast - In The Shadow Of Two Gunmen
42. The All American Rejects - Self-Titled
43. Alesana - The Emptiness
44. Basement - Colour Me In Kindness
45. Simple Plan - No Pads, No Helmet, Just Balls
46. We The Kings - Self Titled
47. Tonight Alive - The Other Side
48. Cobra Starship - !Viva La Cobra!
49. August Burns Red - Constellations
50. The Maine - Can't Stop, Won't Stop
51. Against The Current - Gravity
52. Hey Monday - Hold On Tight
53. Nada Surf - Let Go
54. We Are The In Crowd - Weird Kids
55. Daisy Grenade
56. The Distillers - Coral Fang
57. CARR
58. Pretty Girls Make Graves - The New Romance
59. Escape The Fate - This War Is Ours
60. Millionaires - Cash Only

 

---Bands I'm Very Familiar With---
1. Neck Deep - Life's Not Out To Get You
2. State Champs - The Finer Things
3. Silverstein - Discovering The Waterfront
4. Pierce The Veil - Collide With The Sky
5. Sleeping With Sirens - Let's Cheers To This
6. Fall Out Boy
7. My Chemical Romance - The Black Parade
8. A Day To Remember - Homesick
9. Against The Current - Gravity
10. The Used - In Love & Death
11. The Wonder Years - The Greatest Generation
12. Four Year Strong - Enemy Of The World
13. Dance Gavin Dance - Mothership
14. Senses Fail - Still Searching
15. Mayday Parade - A Lesson In Romantics

---Bands/Albums I'd Like To See But Don't Know As Well---
16. Underoath - They're Only Chasing Safety
17. Tonight Alive - The Other Side
18. CARR
19. The All American Rejects - Self-Titled
20. Cobra Starship - !Viva La Cobra!
21. The Maine - Can't Stop, Won't Stop
22. Coheed & Cambria - Good Apollo, I'm Burning Star IV
23. Story Of The Year - Page Avenue
24. Movements - Feel Something
25. The Starting Line - Say It Like You Mean It
26. We Are The In Crowd - Weird Kids
27. Alesana - The Emptiness
28. Saosin - Self-Titled
29. Motion City Soundtrack - Commit This To Memory
30. Hey Monday - Hold On Tight
31. Hawthorne Heights - The Silence In Black & White
32. Simple Plan - No Pads, No Helmet, Just Balls
33. 3OH!3 - Want
34. August Burns Red - Constellations
35. Jimmy Eat World - Bleed American
36. Daisy Grenade
---Bands I Know Almost Nothing About (except for NFG, who I've seen before)---
37. Bayside - Self-Titled
38. Chiodos - Alls Well That Ends Well
39. Escape The Fate - This War Is Ours
40. Thursday - Full Collapse
41. Atreyu - The Curse
42. Anberlin - Never Take Friendship Personal
43. Cartel - Chroma
44. The Red Jumpsuit Apparatus - Don't You Fake It
45. The Devil Wears Prada - Plagues
46. Millionaires - Cash Only
47. The Distillers - Coral Fang
48. New Found Glory - Sticks & Stones
49. Mom Jeans - Best Buds
50. Say Anything - Is A Real Boy
51. We The Kings - Self Titled
52. LS Dunes
53. Basement - Colour Me In Kindness
54. Armor For Sleep - What To Do When You Are Dead
55. Emery - The Weak's End
56. The Forecast - In The Shadow Of Two Gunmen
57. Nada Surf - Let Go
58. Pretty Girls Make Graves - The New Romance
59. Dashboard Confessional - Dusk & Summer
60. Saves The Day - Stay What You Are

 

Me looking up Pretty Girls Makes Graves thinking they were gonna be a metalcore band from 2004 and being oh so wrong

 

I got in pretty easily for a ticket today. Still tier 3, but much easier than last week

 

Same. Wasn’t going to buy my Sunday ga ticket until prices dropped on stub hub but the whole wristband thing changed my mind, rather not have to worry about that

 

GA and VIP tickets still available. Makes it look like Sunday doesn't have as much demand, for good or bad. I did layaway for Saturday GA, but I am going to eat the $120 and cancel as my friend got VIP for Sunday so I'll go with that. Makes it a pretty expensive trip, but I have read from all accounts that the VIP is pretty much worth it. If it's not oh well, I know for next year.

I am extremely excited about this years lineup but there's honestly as much stuff that I either don't know or hate, as stuff I like.

Some of the bands and albums that are playing, I have barely heard of, yet alone be able to name a single song off the album being played. Still, on a day when I'll probably be able to see 12-15 bands at most (in earnest), I'll make it worth it.

 

I forgot these went on sale and was surprised to see them still available. There's a lot of albums and I like and many I've never heard so I had to pull the trigger for 2nd day.

 

Still available at tier 3

 

Oh shit, let's GO. Solely based on priority to watch at the festival:

1. My Chemical Romance - The Black Parade
2. Cartel - Chroma
3. Fall Out Boy
4. The Wonder Years - The Greatest Generation
5. Motion City Soundtrack - Commit This to Memory
6. Underoath - They're Only Chasing Safety
7. Silverstein - Discovering the Waterfront
8. State Champs - The Finer Things
9. Say Anything - ...Is a Real Boy
10. The Maine - Can't Stop Won't Stop
11. A Day to Remember - Homesick
12. Pierce the Veil - Collide with the Sky
13. Basement - Colourmeinkindness
14. Bayside - S/T
15. Simple Plan - No Pads, No Helmets...Just Balls
16. Mayday Parade - A Lesson in Romantics
17. 3OH!3 - Want
18. Senses Fail - Still Searching
19. Four Year Strong - Enemy of the World
20. Hey Monday - Hold On Tight
21. Armor for Sleep - What to Do When You're Dead
22. Jimmy Eat World - Bleed American
23. New Found Glory - Sticks & Stones
24. Dashboard Confessional - Dusk and Summer
25. Movements - Feel Something
26. Cobra Starship - Viva La Cobra
27. Thursday - Full Collapse
28. Saosin - S/T
29. Story of the Year - Page Avenue
30. Nada Surf - Let Go
31. The All-American Rejects - S/T
32. Coheed & Cambria - Good Apollo, I'm Burning Star IV
33. We the Kings - S/T
34. Millionaires - Ca$h Only
35. Daisy Grenade
36. Carr
37. Neck Deep - Life's Not Out to Get You
38. The Starting Line - Say It Like You Mean It
39. The Used - In Love & Death
40. Atreyu - The Curse
41. The Forecast - In the Shadow of Two Gunmen
42. Mom Jeans - Best Buds
43. We Are the In Crowd - Weird Kids
44. Hawthorne Heights - The Silence in Black & White
45. The Red Jumpsuit Apparatus - Don't You Fake It
46. The Devil Wears Prada - Plagues
47. L.S. Dunes
48. Saves the Day - Stay What You Are
49. August Burns Red - Constellations
50. Chiodos - All's Well That Ends Well
51. Anberlin - Never Take Friendship Personal
52. Tonight Alive - The Other Side
53. Against the Current - Gravity
54. The Distillers - Coral Fang
55. Pretty Girls Make Graves - The New Romance
56. Emery - The Weak's End
57. Dance Gavin Dance - Mothership
58. Sleeping with Sirens - Let's Cheers to This
59. Alesana - The Emptiness
60. Escape the Fate - This War is Ours

 

So this was making the rounds on LinkedIn:

https://www.reddit.com/media?url=ht...bp&s=6e54659a83cbbf4832f9c2b98da4a203df9cc94b

 

cringeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee lol

 

I hate LinkedIn

 

That actually makes me physically uncomfortable I hate it so much... I have to show everyone I know immediately

 

The irony is that many "entrepreneurs" have the same cookie cutter corporate life if not worse

 

I struggle to articulate it, but this is exactly the kind of thing that makes me hate associating with this fest and the whole “emo nostalgia” thing.

I never stopped listening to this kind of bands or going to their shows. To me they’re not something from the past— they’re just something from my life.

acting like liking Fall Out Boy or Taking Back Sunday is some radical thing we used to do as kids seems goofy as hell to me. Either you like them or you don’t- no shame about it either way.

Returning to it as a bit or as escapism seems even weirder. The people who go to WWWY overdressed to the point of it being cosplay depresses the shit out of me. I feel like there’s way too big of a segment of people who see this as a chance to LARP or be someone they’re not or pretend like theyre edgy.

It’s just a fucking music festival. Go if you like the bands. Have fun, but don’t try to be the main character and don’t try to make your being there any deeper than it needs to be. And definitely don’t bring it up unprovoked in some weird LinkedIn monologue.

it’s specifically stuff like this (and the price tag, let’s be honest) that will probably keep me from coming back.

 

Totally how I felt being at both years of this. A ton of cosplaying energy abound. I have seen much more excitement from my friends still going to shows about this years fest compared to previous years, hopefully the energy can shift a little.

 

There's a lot of "Republicans are the new punk rock" energy in that post. LOL. But anyway...

Couldn't agree more with this. There's an "energy" to it all that just feels off. That, coupled with the revisionist history of it all, just makes me feel sad TBH. Acting like you were some sort of wild card rebel for liking Taking Back Sunday, Good Charlotte, Sum-41, Green Day, or whatever at any point from 2002-2006 is a hilarious.

I'm glad it exists though. The bands can get paid bank to play it and it does give a nice opportunity to people who were a bit younger, or folks my age who were more sheltered back in the day, a chance to "catch-up" a bit.

But most of the people I know IRL who get stoked on it are the MLM types who stopped going to shows before they got to college because their "phase" had already passed and no less than two years ago would point out my t-shirt and exclaim: "That band's still around?!!" And I just don't want to be around that vibe at all.

 

Ya'll are being a bit lame haha

What's wrong with asking the question 'did the punk attitude of fuck work actually motivate you to find an alternate career path like being your own boss?'. It's linkedin, it's a business site. It's hardly the most offensive thing there, the person is probably annoying for other reasons as I hate the term entrepreneur and how phony a lot of that 'lifestyle is', but it's hardly anything worth dunking on.

Also what's wrong with having a little fun and 'dressing up' for the festival?

You're making them the main character, and honestly letting how other people behave affect your mood (even if you are being sarcastic / hyperbolic) more than it needs to.

If people want to bust out their vans, old band t shirts, style an old hair cut etc, why do you even care? No one is pretending they're edgy, no one is trying to make it deeper than it is, they're just enjoying themselves? And from going 2 years in a row, it absolutely is escapism. That's what a vacation is? It's time off work to decompress and enjoy things instead of worrying about tasks for others. It's probably actually good you're staying away as you'd be a buzzkill. I spoke to so many strangers at craps / blackjack tables / slot machines and at the fest, and everyone was just there having fun. No fights, no arguing, just enjoying seeing bands live that they may not have seen in a long time and not having a care in the world. Not everyone goes to concerts all the time still. I do (2-3 month) and the WWWY fest has been the best each year.

 

Congrats or im sorry

 

I’m not saying it’s the worst problem in the world or even the music industry. But it *is* annoying.

Call me lame or a gatekeeper or whatever but if you take ANY group of people with a shared set of interests and etiquette and you inject a bunch of people who don’t have the same mindset, you’re going to ruin the original vibe.

It’s a problem that in my experience is mostly specific to WWWY. I go to a lot of punk/emo/hardcore/pop punk fests and the only other instance I can say had that feeling was the day of Riot Fest that MCR played and they severely oversold tickets.

 

i think a lot of the sad feelings for me are centered around something I cared about deeply fully jumping the shark and just being a bit. Like a living thriving scene doesn’t do a fest like this

 

Haven’t been to WWWY before, but that’s how I felt on the Emo’s Not Dead cruise… so many dude bros and rude catty people that felt disconnected from the actual music. It was so obvious that one night at dinner someone leaned over to me and said “aren’t these are the people who were picking on us in high school?”

 

I don’t have a big point to make here, I agree on some level with both sides, but here are my thoughts. as someone who is routinely annoyed by how nostalgia heavy a lot of my favorite bands’ sets are these days to appease casual fans (understandable, but it still sucks), I definitely get being annoyed at the sentiment in the LinkedIn post. As rmourz said, the scene never went away, it’s not just nostalgia for us, so I think we have a right to be a little put off by some of the hysteria and meme-ificafion of it, no less by people who really quickly left it.

it’s silly, but there’s a part of me that gets excited when I meet someone in the corporate world who says they were into that scene, so I get excited we may have a rare bond here, but then you come to find out they really mean they listened to the 3-5 super popular bands (which were basically just the popular rock music at the time) for a couple years, they loved Cute Without the E, and they probably made fun of people that listened to screamo. I definitely don’t expect that person to go to local shows, let alone WWWY, so when I see that LinkedIn post i almost can’t believe it’s a real person. I’m glad we can enjoy it all now, I’m glad the festival exists, but in the moment it does feel like it cheapens the bond between all the fest goers. I don’t know anybody that pays money to go to scene shows anymore that doesn’t still follow these bands so I think bewilderment is the overarching emotion here for me.

as a related example, I saw Silverstein play This Is How The Wind Shifts a couple weeks ago - an all time album for me. But I was stuck behind the 3 most annoying people in the world who talked the *entire* time (long story but I couldn’t go elsewhere). Everybody around us is singing along except these 3 knuckleheads. They only stopped to sing the choruses to Smile In Your Sleep and My Heroine, and didn’t recognize the band still had an encore to play. If I saw those dudes on LinkedIn or at WWWY talking about how emo they used to be I’m gonna be annoyed no matter what. Yea, yea it doesn’t matter, I’m glad the band got their money, but still gets under your skin.

 

That pretty much describes the vast majority of the people going to Emo Nites. College kids that are trying way too hard to let everyone know how "sad" they are and yell "OMG THIS IS MY JAM" when I Write Sins starts, splashing beer over everyone around them. I am always annoyed by these people but then I just tell myself that every person has a right to enjoy music their own way. Who am I to tell someone how to have fun?

Regarding Silverstein, I saw them a few months ago and there were so many confused people on the floor when they were doing "The Altar / Mary" as their last song. But I do understand why many of these bands play their hits. It's theie bread and butter. Hawthorne Heights have been staying alive off of just one aong for like 20 years now. All we can hope for is that they sprinkle some deep cuts here and there.

 

Im so glad The Altar/Mary has been in the set for a while, great live song. They closed this show with arrivals/solace, which I did not expect at all. Great duo, perfect ending for people that love the album, but the confusion was real. PMR had to stop people from talking bc seemingly none of those people know he was playing a real song.