Live, in Photos: When We Were Young 2024 with My Chemical Romance, Fall Out Boy, and More

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Live, in Photos: When We Were Young 2024 with My Chemical Romance, Fall Out Boy, and More

Jimmy Eat World, Coheed and Cambria, The Used, Dashboard Confessional, and more from the 2000s nostalgia mall-punk fest in Las Vegas.

Words: FLOOD Staff

Photos: Skylar Watkins

October 22, 2024

After debuting in the spring of 2017, Las Vegas’ When We Were Young festival returned as an annual event in 2022 and has drawn concertgoers every year since then with its focus on 2000s nostalgia mall-punk in its many forms. This year’s iteration cleverly played into that nostalgia by singling out specific iconic albums for its elder performers to play in full, though as our photographer Skylar Watkins notes, very few of these bands were given time slots large enough to contain the full records (aside from My Chemical Romance, of course, who played two nights of The Black Parade with the addition of earlier hits “Helena” and “I’m Not Okay”).

Some of this year’s highlights included younger generations of pop-punk bands, such as 2010s post-hardcore groups Basement and Movements and, in a similar vein, the recently forged supergroup L.S. Dunes (made up of members of other WWWY performers, including MCR, Coheed and Cambria, Thursday, Taking Back Sunday, and Saosin). And while she wasn’t able to catch all of the weekend’s sets (including Boys Like Girls, who filled in for All-American Rejects and allegedly walked out to “Dirty Little Secret” in homage), she did capture exciting shots of Coheed and Cambria, Fall Out Boy, Dashboard Confessional, Jimmy Eat World, and many more below.