When We Were Young (festival)

When We Were Young
2022 lineup
Genre	Emo pop-punk post-hardcore alternative rock metalcore screamo emo pop hardcore punk punk rock indie rock indie pop
Dates	April 8 and 9, 2017 October 22, 23 and 29, 2022 October 21 and 22, 2023 October 19 and 20, 2024 October 18 and 19, 2025
Locations	The Observatory, Santa Ana, California Las Vegas Festival Grounds, Winchester, Nevada, U.S.
Years active	2017 2022-present
Founders	Live Nation Entertainment
Website	whenwewereyoungfestival.com

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 18-19, 2025. ^{[1] [2] [3]}

History

The first incarnation of the festival took place at The Observatory in Santa Ana, California on April 8 and 9, 2017. ^[4] It was headlined by Morrissey. ^[5]

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. ^{[1] [2]} Tickets sold out quickly, leading to the addition of second and third dates on October 23 and 29, 2022. ^{[6] [7] [3]} Matt Skiba of Alkaline Trio asserts that the festival lineup was announced before bands were committed but that all bands would agree to play. ^[8]

The first day was canceled due to weather. ^[9] The band Car Seat Headrest was scheduled to play as part of the 2022 lineup but pulled out due to health issues. ^[10]

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 three-day festival to a two-day weekend festival, a format that was also used for the 2024 festival. ^[11]

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. ^[12] The All-American Rejects dropped out a week before the festival; lead singer Tyson Ritter said that the band never agreed to play their self-titled debut album in full despite it being advertised as such, and wanted to play a "greatest hits" set instead. ^[13] On October 15, 2024, The Distillers also announced that they are no longer playing at the 2024 event. ^[14] The festival was criticized for misspelling eight band names across its official merchandise items. ^[15]

On October 29, 2024, the 2025 edition was announced, with Blink-182 returning to headline alongside Panic! at the Disco, marking the band's first one-off reunion following their 2023 dissolution and in honor of the 20th anniversary of their album A Fever You Can't Sweat Out , which they will perform in full. The event took place on October 18 and 19, 2025. ^[16] On September 12, 2025, Christofer Drew, lead vocalist of Never Shout Never, dropped out from the festival due to a "mouth infection". Then, when the schedules were announced for the festival, Sleeping with Sirens also dropped out from the festival. In their place was Chiodos and Drain.

Lineups

List of official festival lineup in alphabetical order by year; headliners in bold: ^{[17] [18] [11]}

2017

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

2022

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 Huddy I Prevail Ice Nine Kills Jimmy Eat World Jxdn Kittie Knocked Loose La Dispute (weekend 1 only) Landon Barker The Linda Lindas The Maine Manchester Orchestra Mayday Parade Meet Me @ the Altar 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) The Used We the Kings Wolf Alice (weekend 1 only) The Wonder Years

2023

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 Jxdn KennyHoopla Knuckle Puck Less Than Jake Lit Magnolia Park Michelle Branch Motion City Soundtrack Movements The Movielife MxPx New Found Glory No Pressure Now More Than Ever 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

2024

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) Boys Like Girls (Subsequent addition after The All-American Rejects dropped off from the festival) Carr [a] 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 Good Apollo, I'm Burning Star IV, Volume One: From Fear Through the Eyes of Madness in its entirety) Daisy Grenade [a] 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 [a] 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 [a] 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) Movements (performing Feel Something 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 Devil Wears Prada (performing Plagues 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 Paradox (Last minute addition) 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)

2025

Alexisonfire All Time Low Arm’s Length Asking Alexandria Avril Lavigne Bad Religion Beartooth Blink-182 Boys Like Girls Breathe Carolina Chiodos Crown the Empire Destroy Boys Don Broco Drain Her Leather Jacket Holding Absence I Prevail Ice Nine Kills Jack’s Mannequin Knocked Loose Kublai Khan Tx Letlive Loathe Mayday Parade Motionless In White Panic! at the Disco (performing A Fever You Can't Sweat Out in its entirety) Plain White T's Pvris Set Your Goals Simple Plan Story of the Year Straylight Run Sunami Taking Back Sunday Taylor Acorn The Amity Affliction The Cab The Gaslight Anthem The Maine The Movielife The Offspring The Plot In You The Red Jumpsuit Apparatus The Rocket Summer The Starting Line The Story So Far The Summer Set The Used We Came As Romans We the Kings Weezer Yellowcard

See also

• Sick New World
• Vans Warped Tour
• Taste of Chaos
• The Bamboozle
• Furnace Fest
• Honda Civic Tour
• Slam Dunk Festival
• Riot Fest

Notes

1. This act did not perform an album in its entirety as part of the festival, and instead performed a general set of their material.

References

1. Spanos, Brittany (January 18, 2022). "'When We Were Young': 5 Questions We Have About the 2000s Emo and Pop-Punk Blowout". Rolling Stone . Archived from the original on January 19, 2022. Retrieved January 20, 2022.
2. Garvey, Marianne (January 19, 2022). "When We Were Young festival announces My Chemical Romance and Paramore as headliners". CNN . Archived from the original on January 20, 2022. Retrieved January 20, 2022.
3. Shanfeld, Ethan (January 24, 2022). "When We Were Young Festival Adds Third Date With Same Lineup". Variety . Archived from the original on January 24, 2022. Retrieved January 25, 2022.
4. Gaca, Anna (7 February 2017). "Emo Festival Announces Lineup Consisting Almost Entirely of Men". Spin .
5. "Morrissey to Headline Inaugural When We Were Young Fest". Entertainment Weekly. Retrieved 2024-10-13.
6. "When We Were Young Sells Out, Adds Second Date To Highly Anticipated Festival on Sunday, October 23, 2022". Live Nation Entertainment. 2022-01-21. Retrieved 2022-02-16.
7. "When We Were Young Festival Adds Third Date". pastemagazine.com. 2022-01-25. Retrieved 2022-02-16.
8. 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". loudersound. Retrieved 2022-10-18.
9. Trendell, Andrew (2022-10-22). "When We Were Young Festival 2022 day one cancelled due to weather warning". NME. Retrieved 2022-10-23.
10. Richards, Will (2022-10-19). "Car Seat Headrest cancels US tour and When We Were Young set due to health issues". NME. Retrieved 2022-10-19.
11. DeVita, Joe. "When We Were Young Festival Announces Over 50 Bands for 2023 – Blink-182, Green Day + More". Loudwire. Retrieved 18 October 2022.
12. "WHEN WE WERE YOUNG ANNOUNCES 2024 LINEUP FEATURING OVER 50 FULL ALBUM LIVE PERFORMANCES AND MORE", LiveNation, 13 November 2023. Retrieved 20 April 2024.
13. "The All-American Rejects Drop Off When We Were Young, Say Fest Reneged On Deal". Stereogum. 2024-10-12. Retrieved 2024-10-13.
14. https://www.instagram.com/p/DBJ8TReJszT/
15. "Official When We Were Young Merch Misspells Eight Band Names". Stereogum. 2024-10-22. Retrieved 2024-10-24.
16. Jones, Abby (October 29, 2024). "When We Were Young 2025 Lineup Features Blink-182, Weezer, And A Panic! At The Disco Reunion". Stereogum .
17. "When We Were Young 2017".
18. Childers, Chad (18 January 2022). "My Chemical Romance + Paramore Lead 2022 When We Were Young Festival Lineup". Loudwire . Retrieved 23 January 2022.

External links

• Official website