When We Were Young festival cancels Saturday lineup

The musical competition When We Had been Younger abruptly canceled its Saturday lineup on the identical day a few of its largest artists had been set to take the stage.

In an announcement on their social media web page, organizers of the emo music competition, which has a lineup that features Paramore, My Chemical Romance, Avril Lavigne and a bevy of different bands and performers, shared that the cancelation of the Saturday lineup was as a result of harmful winds on the Las Vegas Pageant Grounds.

“When We Had been Younger Pageant organizers have spent the final a number of days proactively making ready the competition grounds for a windy Saturday. The Nationwide Climate Service has now upgraded their Saturday forecast to a Excessive Wind Warning, together with harmful 30-40 mph sustained winds with potential 60 mph gusts,” the assertion from competition organizers reads.

The competition organizer add that the selection to cancel the festivities was made after cautious advisement from each climate and security consultants.

“Underneath advisement of the Nationwide Climate Service and the Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Division, now we have no different alternative than to cancel at present’s When We Had been Younger Pageant,” it concludes. “The security of our followers, artists and employees will all the time be our prime precedence.”

In a press release to Yahoo Leisure, the competition organizers stated, “Ticketholders who bought their tickets instantly by means of the competition’s ticketing firm, Entrance Gate Tickets, for Saturday, October twenty second’s When We Had been Younger Pageant will obtain a refund in as little as 30 days to the unique type of cost. In response to the Nationwide Climate Service, Sunday’s climate appears to be like sunny with none wind advisories. When We Had been Younger’s further dates together with Sunday, Oct. 23 and Saturday, Oct. 29, are shifting ahead accordingly.”

As anticipated, the choice to cancel the Saturday portion of the present, which included Lavigne and My Chemical Romance, did not sit nicely with excited competition goers, a lot of whom had traveled to Las Vegas from out of city particularly for the occasion. Followers flooded WWWY’s social media pages, which had simply posted on Friday night about being excited to kick off the competition, in addition to took to Twitter to specific their disappointment.

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LadyGang co-host Jac Vanek took to social media to specific her unhappiness, making a video set to the viral TikTok model of a person singing Secondhand Serenade’s music “Fall For You.”

“POV you simply heard When We Had been Younger Fest is cancelled and you do not know wtf to do together with your life,” Vanek wrote on her video.

On their very own Twitter web page, My Chemical Romance re-shared the assertion from the competition and included their very own message as nicely.

“To the followers who’ve tickets to WWWY evening 1, we’re so sorry that harmful climate precipitated the present to be canceled,” the band wrote.

Taking Again Sunday additionally commented, solidifying the organizers’ determination to cancel. “We’re right here and it is extremely unsafe situations with the staging and kit. We’ll see you tomorrow,” the band wrote.

Dashboard Confessional, who just isn’t set to take the stage till Sunday, additionally chimed in.

“Keep protected on the market at present!” the band wrote. “I’ll be seeing you tomorrow!”

Yahoo Leisure reached out to organizers of the When We Had been Younger competition and representatives for Lavigne however didn’t obtain a press release by the point of publication.

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