When We Were Young Festival 2022—Lineup and How To Get Tickets to the Emo Extravaganza

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The lineup for the 2022 When We Were Young Festival—a concert event celebrating emo, a subgenre of punk rock music—has been unveiled.

The festival bears the same name as the song "When We Were Young" by British artist Adele and a similar title to the popular track "When You Were Young" by The Killers, whose frontman Brandon Flowers, back in 2006 expressed some strong feelings about emo music groups.

The singer told NME at the time: "Culturally, if it gets as big as it is in America, it could change an entire generation of people growing up here. Emo, pop-punk, whatever you want to call it, is dangerous.

"We don't wanna dislike anyone...but there's a creature inside me that wants to beat all those bands to death. They just all go into the happy emo funnel and everyone loves 'em without thinking."

Is When We Were Young Festival Real?

Emo music fans will be glad to know that the festival is indeed real. It will be held on October 22 at the Las Vegas Festival Grounds in Las Vegas. The event will run from 11 a.m. to 11 p.m. local time, according to the festival website.

When We Were Young Festival 2022 Lineup

The event will feature performances from a host of nostalgic emo-pop bands from the 2000s, including Paramore and My Chemical Romance, who are both headlining the festival.

The concert will be the first new show from Paramore since the band went on a hiatus back in 2018, while the group's lead singer Hayley Williams released her debut solo album Petals for Armor in January 2020.

My Chemical Romance also took a long break (of seven years) before returning to the stage in 2019 at the Shrine Expo Hall in Los Angeles. The band will also begin their tour later this year, which includes some concerts in select U.S. cities.

Among the other major performers include Avril Lavigne, Jimmy Eat World and Bright Eyes.

Below are some artists performing at the 2022 When We Were Young Festival:

  • Bring Me The Horizon
  • Boys Like Girls
  • The All-American Rejects
  • AFI
  • The Used
  • Taking Back Sunday
  • Dashboard Confessional
  • We the Kings
  • Alkaline Trio
  • Manchester Orchestra
  • Dance Gavin Dance
  • Anberlin
  • 3OH!3
  • Atreyu
  • The Ready Set
  • La Dispute
  • The Wonder Years
  • Hawthorne Heights
  • Car Seat Headrest
  • Wolf Alice

See the When We Were Young Festival website for the full lineup of the concert.

How to Get Tickets for When We Were Young Festival 2022

Tickets can be purchased via the When We Were Young Festival website. The pre-sale for tickets begins on Friday, January 21. You can receive the pre-sale code by signing up at the festival website.

Hayley Williams and Gerard Way on stage.
Hayley Williams (left) of Paramore performing at the 2018 Bonnaroo Arts And Music Festival in Manchester, Tennessee. Gerard Way of My Chemical Romance performing at the 2014 Leeds Festival in Leeds, U.K. Jeff Kravitz/FilmMagic for Bonnaroo Arts And Music Festival/Andrew Benge / Redferns via Getty Images
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Soo Kim is a Newsweek reporter based in London, U.K. She covers various lifestyle stories, specializing in travel, health, home/interior design and property/real estate. Soo covered the COVID-19 pandemic extensively from 2020 to 2022, including several interviews with the chief medical advisor to the president, Dr. Anthony Fauci. Soo has reported on various major news events, including the Black Lives Matter movement, the U.S. Capitol riots, the war in Afghanistan, the U.S. and Canadian elections, and the 2020 Tokyo Olympics. Soo is also a South Korea expert, covering the latest K-dramas—including the breakout hit Squid Game, which she has covered extensively, including from Seoul, the South Korean capital—as well as Korean films, such as the Golden Globe and Oscar-nominated Past Lives, and K-pop news, to interviews with the biggest Korean actors, such as Lee Jung-jae from Squid Game and Star Wars, and Korean directors, such as Golden Globe and Oscar nominee Celine Song. Soo is the author of the book How to Live Korean, which is available in 11 languages, and co-author of the book Hello, South Korea: Meet the Country Behind Hallyu. Before Newsweek, Soo was a travel reporter and commissioning editor for the award-winning travel section of The Daily Telegraph (a leading U.K. national newspaper) for nearly a decade from 2010, reporting on the latest in the travel industry, from travel news, consumer travel and aviation issues to major new openings and emerging destinations. Soo is a graduate of Binghamton University in New York and the journalism school of City University in London, where she earned a Masters in international journalism. You can get in touch with Soo by emailing s.kim@newsweek.com . Follow her on Instagram at @miss.soo.kim or X, formerly Twitter, at @MissSooKim .Languages spoken: English and Korean

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