![]() I probably could talk about multiple songs on multiple albums, but the first song I heard was"Pressure" from the album All We Know Is Falling. I think we may have played, like, three festivals together in the past, and they have absolutely crushed every time I have seen them play. While we may not be the biggest band in the world yet, we aren’t finished. We were insanely happy with how everything was going, and DL from The Acacia Strain came up to us and said,"You guys are about to be the biggest band in the world." We all laughed and went on to play. We all listened to them on the PA at the venue in Melbourne. I remember being on tour with Parkway Drive, The Acacia Strain and Suicide Silence, and getting our mixes back from Adam Dutkiewicz for Homesick. It allowed us to play every genre of show and fit in enough to play, but stand out enough to be remembered. ADTR made music that allowed us to fully express every influence, whether that made sense to others or not. I made almost all my lifetime friends from going to shows and being a part of the scene in Florida. I would go to every show that came to my part of Florida. To me, this time was all about finding out who I was and what I liked. A Day To Remember - Neil Westfall, guitarist They also short circuited our bus with their hair straighteners, and to this day I like to give them crap about it. That’s inspiring to me to watch a band that has been around maybe longer than us continuing to grow. They are extremely nice people and I love their new song "Pass the Nirvana" a lot. Our first American tour, we shared a bus with them. I’m a fan of almost all these bands, but I will say I’m excited to see Pierce the Veil. Sean Foreman: Playing Warped Tour in New York and reaching out to Lil Jon - who drove out and joined us on stage for two songs - that was truly the WTF moment, since a lot of our early sound was inspired by him. Each one of those years I was deferring my acceptance to medical school at the University of Colorado, because the experiences we were getting and the fun we were having was way too much to turn away (shout out to CU Medical School for the patience and generosity!). We were so ignorant to the pitfalls of the "industry" that we didn't know what we couldn't do, and therein, every opportunity to do something different was novel and exciting. Our first three years of full touring (2008, 2009, and 2010) was a delirious, crazy, exhausting and joyful blur. That was really important for us, as we always considered ourselves pretty regular people, just trying to rock a party and make it as fun as possible for a bunch of our friends in the crowd. We started touring on a national scale on Warped Tour, and on that tour, pretty much every band does a daily meet and greet, where fans can meet the bands in person and have a substantive, personal interaction with them. ![]() Nathaniel Motte: I think the emo scene really encouraged a sense of demystification across a lot of different facets of music. While you’re reading, press play on 's official When We Were Young Fest playlist on Spotify, Apple Music, Amazon Music, and Pandora. ![]() ![]() ![]() Organizers responded to the demand (and fans' thoughts about who was missing from this year’s roster) by announcing a jam-packed lineup for 2023 - which, of course, is already sold out.Īhead of the inaugural When We Were Young festival, asked some of its acts to look back on this unique time in music and share some of their favorite memories. Even still, tickets sold out immediately. Across five stages at the Las Vegas Fairgrounds, there will be pop-punk from Avril Lavigne, post-hardcore from AFI, straight-ahead punk rock from the Linda Lindas, and the highly anticipated return of emo rockers My Chemical Romance.Īlmost as soon as When We Were Young was announced, social media exploded about the implausibility of such a massive lineup. While there was no doubt a divide between subcultures and subgenres back in the day - just ask any scene kid, these journalists included - When We Were Young breaks down those barriers in favor of a smorgasbord of sound. The event features 64 of the biggest names in pop-punk, emo and hardcore from the early 2000s through 2010s, as well as a handful of contemporary acts who are continuing those movements today. 22, 23 and 29, the When We Were Young Festival is a nostalgia event for the ages (particularly, those in their late 20s to early 40s). If the average fan travels to Las Vegas to find themselves squarely in the moment - whether that be at the slots, a show, or an artist residency - one festival is aiming to be a blast from the past. Written by Taylor Weatherby and Jessica Lipsky ![]()
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