When We Were Young is a brand new one-day festival on October 22nd and October 23rd, 2022 at the Las Vegas Festival Grounds in Las Vegas, Nevada. The lineup features a myriad of emo, pop-punk, rock, and hardcore bands from the last 20 years, with My Chemical Romance and Paramore headlining. Due to overwhelming demand, the festival’s organizers added a second day with the same lineup, set for October 23rd. Also playing the festival are Bright Eyes, Avril Lavigne, AFI, The Used, Taking Back Sunday, A Day To Remember, Manchester Orchestra, Jimmy Eat World, and many more.
Presale tickets for When We Were Young will be available Friday, Jan. 21 at 10 am PT for fans who sign up for early access to passes online at whenwewereyoungfestival.com. Afterwards, tickets will go on-sale for the general public beginning Friday, Jan. 21st at 2pm PT. Tickets are currently sold out, but a waitlist is available via the festival’s website.
Ticket Price: $224.99 (GA); $399.99 (GA+); $499 (VIP)
Headliners
Festival lineup
Saturday, October 22
- 3OH!3
- A Day To Remember
- AFI
- Acceptance
- Alkaline Trio
- Anberlin
- Armor For Sleep
- Atreyu
- Avril Lavigne
- Bayside
- Black Veil Brides
- Boys Like Girls
- Bright Eyes
- Bring Me The Horizon
- Car Seat Headrest
- Dance Gavin Dance
- Dashboard Confesional
- Four Year Strong
- Glassjaw
- Hawthorne Heights
- Horrorpops
- I Prevail
- Ice Nine Kills
- Jimmy Eat World
- Kittie
- Knocked Loose
- La Dispute
- LilHuddy
- Manchester Orchestra
- Mayday Parade
- Meet Me @ The Altar
- Mom Jeans
- Motionless In White
- My Chemical Romance
- Neck Deep
- Nessa Barrett
- PVRIS
- Palaye Royale
- Paramore
- Pierce the Veil
- Poppy
- Prentiss
- Royal & the Serpent
- Saosin
- Senses Fail
- Silverstein
- Sleeping With Sirens
- State Champs
- Story of the Year
- TV Girl
- Taking Back Sunday
- The All American Rejects
- The Garden
- The Linda Lindas
- The Maine
- The Ready Set
- The Red Jumpsuit Apparatus
- The Starting Line
- The Story So Far
- The Used
- The Wonder Years
- Thursday
- We The Kings
- Wolf Alice
- jxdn
Previous Years
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