When We Were Young (festival) explained

When We Were Young
Dates:	April 8 and 9, 2017 October 22, 23 and 29, 2022 October 21 and 22, 2023 October 19 and 20, 2024 (planned)
Location:	The Observatory, Santa Ana, California Las Vegas Festival Grounds, Winchester, Nevada, U.S.
Founders:	Live Nation Entertainment

When We Were Young is an annual music festival currently held at the Las Vegas Festival Grounds in Winchester, Nevada. It is typically scheduled for the third weekend of October. The most recent event took place from October 21–22, 2023.

History

The first incarnation of the festival took place at The Observatory in Santa Ana, California on April 8 and 9, 2017.^[1]

In 2022, the festival was moved to Winchester, Nevada at the Las Vegas Festival Grounds. The event was first announced on January 18, 2022, as a one-day event on October 22, 2022, headlined by My Chemical Romance and Paramore.^{[2] [3]} Tickets sold out quickly, leading to the addition of second and third dates on October 23 and 29, 2022.^{[4] [5] [6]} Matt Skiba of Alkaline Trio asserts that the festival lineup was announced before bands were committed but that all bands would agree to play.^[7]

The first day was canceled due to weather.^[8] The band Car Seat Headrest was scheduled to play as part of the 2022 lineup but pulled out due to health issues.^[9]

On October 11, 2022, the festival announced it was returning for a second year in 2023 with Blink-182 and Green Day as headliners the event also moved from a 3 day festival to a 2 day weekend festival, a format that is also planned to be used for the 2024 festival .^[10]

On November 13, 2023, after a lineup was leaked, all artists officially announced the lineup for 2024, set to be headlined by Fall Out Boy and My Chemical Romance. As opposed to previous years, in 2024, nearly all of the performing bands are set to play sets that consist of one of their albums played in its entirety.^[11]

Lineups

List of official festival lineup in alphabetical order by year; headliners in bold: ^{[12] [13]}

• AFI
• Agent Orange
• Alkaline Trio
• Balance and Composure
• Beach Fossils
• The Buttertones
• Cage the Elephant
• Cat Signs
• CH3
• Choking Victim
• David Bazan
• Descendents
• The Dickies
• Dr. Dog
• Fidlar
• Foxygen
• The Frights
• The Get Up Kids
• Guttermouth
• Homeshake
• Joyce Manor
• Mike Watt
• Mount Eerie
• Morrissey
• Moving Units
• No Parents
• Pinback
• Plague Vendor
• The Regrettes
• Sadgirl
• Saves the Day
• Senses Fail
• Set Your Goals
• Sheer Mag
• Silversun Pickups
• The Stitches
• Streetlight Manifesto
• Sunflower Bean
• Taking Back Sunday
• Tijuana Panthers
• Together Pangea
• Turnstile

• 3OH!3
• Acceptance
• AFI
• Alex G (weekend 2 only)
• Alkaline Trio
• The All-American Rejects
• Anberlin
• Armor for Sleep
• Atreyu
• Avril Lavigne (weekend 1 only)
• Bayside
• Black Veil Brides
• Boys Like Girls
• Bright Eyes
• Bring Me the Horizon
• Dance Gavin Dance
• Dashboard Confessional
• A Day to Remember
• Death Cab for Cutie (weekend 2 only)
• Four Year Strong
• The Garden
• Glassjaw
• Hawthorne Heights
• HorrorPops
• Lil Huddy
• I Prevail
• Ice Nine Kills
• Jimmy Eat World
• Jxdn
• Kittie
• Knocked Loose
• La Dispute (weekend 1 only)
• The Linda Lindas
• The Maine
• Manchester Orchestra
• Mayday Parade
• Meet Me @ the Altar
  • Millionaires Mom Jeans
• Motionless in White
• My Chemical Romance
• Neck Deep
• Nessa Barrett
• Paramore
• Palaye Royale
• Prentiss
• Pierce the Veil
• Poppy
• Pvris
• The Ready Set
  • The Red Jumpsuit Apparatus Royal & the Serpent
• Saosin
• Senses Fail
• Silverstein
• Sleeping With Sirens
• The Starting Line
• State Champs
• Story of the Year
• The Story So Far
• Taking Back Sunday
• Thursday
• TV Girl
• Underoath (weekend 2 only)
• We the Kings
• Wolf Alice (weekend 1 only)
• The Wonder Years
• The Used

• 5 Seconds of Summer
• The Academy Is...
• AJJ
• All Time Low
• The Ataris
• Beach Bunny
• Blink-182
• Bowling for Soup
• Citizen
• Ekkstacy
• Fenix TX
• Finch
• The Front Bottoms
• Games We Play
• Goldfinger
• Good Charlotte
• Green Day
• Gym Class Heroes
• Hot Mulligan
• Jean Dawson
• Joyce Manor
• KennyHoopla
• Knuckle Puck
• Less Than Jake
• Lit
• Magnolia Park
• Michelle Branch
• Motion City Soundtrack
• Movements
• The Movielife
• MxPx
• New Found Glory
• No Pressure
• The Offspring
• Pierce the Veil
• Plain White T's
• Relient K
• Rise Against
• Saves The Day
• Say Anything
• Set It Off
• Simple Plan
• Something Corporate
• Sum 41
• Thirty Seconds to Mars
• Thrice
• Tigers Jaw
• Turnover
• The Veronicas
• Waterparks
• The Wrecks
• Yellowcard
• Zebrahead

• 3OH!3 (Performing Want in its entirety)
• A Day to Remember (performing Homesick in its entirety)
• Against the Current (performing Gravity in its entirety)
• Alesana (performing The Emptiness in its entirety)
• Anberlin (performing Never Take Friendship Personal in its entirety)
• Armor for Sleep (performing What to Do When You Are Dead in its entirety)
• Atreyu (performing The Curse in its entirety)
• August Burns Red (performing Constellations in its entirety)
• Basement (performing Colormeinkindness in its entirety)
• Bayside (performing their self-titled album in its entirety)
• Carr
• Cartel (performing Chroma in its entirety)
• Chiodos (performing All's Well That Ends Well in its entirety)
• Cobra Starship (performing ¡Viva la Cobra! in its entirety)
• Coheed and Cambria (performing in its entirety)
• Daisy Grenade
• Dance Gavin Dance (performing Mothership in its entirety)
• Dashboard Confessional (performing Dusk and Summer in its entirety)
• Emery (performing The Weak's End in its entirety)
• Escape the Fate (performing This War is Ours in its entirety)
• Fall Out Boy
• Four Year Strong (performing Enemy of the World in its entirety)
• Hawthorne Heights (performing The Silence in Black and White in its entirety)
• Hey Monday (performing Hold On Tight in its entirety)
• Jimmy Eat World (performing Bleed American in its entirety)
• L.S. Dunes
• Mayday Parade (performing A Lesson in Romantics in its entirety)
• Millionaires (performing Cash Only in its entirety)
• Mom Jeans (performing Best Buds in its entirety)
• Motion City Soundtrack (performing Commit This to Memory in its entirety)
• My Chemical Romance (performing The Black Parade in its entirety)
• Nada Surf (performing Let Go in its entirety)
• Neck Deep (performing Life's Not Out to Get You in its entirety)
• New Found Glory (performing Sticks and Stones in its entirety)
• Pierce the Veil (performing Collide with the Sky in its entirety)
• Pretty Girls Make Graves (performing The New Romance in its entirety)
• Saosin (performing their self-titled album in its entirety)
• Saves the Day (performing Stay What You Are in its entirety)
• Say Anything (performing ...Is a Real Boy in its entirety)
• Senses Fail (performing Still Searching in its entirety)
• Silverstein (performing Discovering the Waterfront in its entirety)
• Simple Plan (performing No Pads, No Helmets...Just Balls in its entirety)
• Sleeping with Sirens (performing Let's Cheers to This in its entirety)
• State Champs (performing The Finer Things in its entirety)
• Story of the Year (performing Page Avenue in its entirety)
• Taking Back Sunday (performing Tell All Your Friends in its entirety)
• The All-American Rejects (performing their self-titled debut album in its entirety)
• The Devil Wears Prada (performing Plagues in its entirety)
• The Distillers (performing Coral Fang in its entirety)
• The Forecast (performing In the Shadow of Two Gunmen in its entirety)
• The Maine (performing Can't Stop Won't Stop in its entirety)
• The Red Jumpsuit Apparatus (performing Don't You Fake It in its entirety)
• The Starting Line (performing Say It Like You Mean It in its entirety)
• The Used (performing In Love and Death in its entirety)
• The Wonder Years (performing The Greatest Generation in its entirety)
• Thursday (performing Full Collapse in its entirety)
• Tonight Alive (performing The Other Side in its entirety)
• Underoath (performing They're Only Chasing Safety in its entirety)
• We Are the In Crowd (performing Weird Kids in its entirety)
• We the Kings (performing their self titled-debut in its entirety)

See also

• Slam Dunk Festival
• Taste of Chaos
• Vans Warped Tour

Notes and References

1. Web site: Gaca . Anna . Emo Festival Announces Lineup Consisting Almost Entirely of Men . . 7 February 2017.
2. Spanos . Brittany . Brittany Spanos . January 18, 2022 . 'When We Were Young': 5 Questions We Have About the 2000s Emo and Pop-Punk Blowout . live . . en-US . https://web.archive.org/web/20220119232300/https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-features/when-we-were-young-emo-pop-punk-festival-questions-1286772/ . January 19, 2022 . January 20, 2022.
3. Web site: Garvey . Marianne . January 19, 2022 . When We Were Young festival announces My Chemical Romance and Paramore as headliners . live . https://web.archive.org/web/20220120044405/https://www.cnn.com/2022/01/19/entertainment/my-chemical-romance-paramore-when-we-were-young/index.html . January 20, 2022 . January 20, 2022 . CNN.
4. Web site: 2022-01-21. When We Were Young Sells Out, Adds Second Date To Highly Anticipated Festival on Sunday, October 23, 2022. 2022-02-16. Live Nation Entertainment. en-US.
5. Web site: 2022-01-25. When We Were Young Festival Adds Third Date. 2022-02-16. pastemagazine.com. en.
6. News: Shanfeld . Ethan . January 24, 2022 . When We Were Young Festival Adds Third Date With Same Lineup . . live . January 25, 2022 . https://web.archive.org/web/20220124004129/https://variety.com/2022/music/news/when-we-were-young-festival-second-date-1235159937/ . January 24, 2022.
7. Web site: Paul Brannigan . 2022-10-18 . Alkaline Trio's Matt Skiba says the star-studded emo/punk festival When We Were Young was announced before a single band on the bill agreed to play . 2022-10-18 . loudersound . en.
8. Web site: Trendell . Andrew . 2022-10-22 . When We Were Young Festival 2022 day one cancelled due to weather warning . 2022-10-23 . NME . en-GB.
9. Web site: Richards . Will . 2022-10-19 . Car Seat Headrest cancels US tour and When We Were Young set due to health issues . 2022-10-19 . NME . en-AU.
10. Web site: DeVita . Joe . When We Were Young Festival Announces Over 50 Bands for 2023 – Blink-182, Green Day + More . Loudwire . 18 October 2022.
11. https://www.livenationentertainment.com/2023/11/when-we-were-young-announces-2024-lineup-featuring-over-50-full-album-live-performances-and-more/ "WHEN WE WERE YOUNG ANNOUNCES 2024 LINEUP FEATURING OVER 50 FULL ALBUM LIVE PERFORMANCES AND MORE"
12. Web site: When We Were Young 2017 .
13. Web site: Childers . Chad . My Chemical Romance + Paramore Lead 2022 When We Were Young Festival Lineup . . 23 January 2022 . 18 January 2022.