The musical pageant When We Have been Younger abruptly canceled its Saturday lineup on the identical day a few of its greatest artists had been set to take the stage.
In an announcement on their social media web page, organizers of the emo music pageant, 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 because of the harmful winds on the Las Vegas Competition Grounds.
“When We Have been Younger Competition organizers have spent the final a number of days proactively making ready the pageant 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 pageant organizers reads.
The pageant organizer add that the selection to cancel the festivities was made after cautious advisement from each climate and security specialists.
“Beneath advisement of the Nationwide Climate Service and the Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Division, we’ve no different selection than to cancel at present’s When We Have been Younger Competition,” it concludes. “The security of our followers, artists and workers will at all times be our high precedence.”
In an announcement to Yahoo Leisure, the pageant organizers stated, “Ticketholders who bought their tickets straight by means of the pageant’s ticketing firm, Entrance Gate Tickets, for Saturday, October twenty second’s When We Have been Younger Competition will obtain a refund in as little as 30 days to the unique type of fee. In keeping with the Nationwide Climate Service, Sunday’s climate seems sunny with none wind advisories. When We Have been Younger’s extra 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 properly with excited pageant 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 pageant, in addition to took to Twitter to precise their disappointment.
LadyGang co-host Jac Vanek took to social media to precise her disappointment, 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 Have been Younger Fest is cancelled and you do not know wtf to do along with your life,” Vanek wrote on her video.
On their very own Twitter web page, My Chemical Romance re-shared the assertion from the pageant and included their very own message as properly.
“To the followers who’ve tickets to WWWY evening 1, we’re so sorry that harmful climate triggered the present to be canceled,” the band wrote.
Taking Again Sunday additionally commented, solidifying the organizers’ resolution to cancel. “We’re right here and it is vitally unsafe situations with the staging and equipment. 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 Have been Younger pageant and representatives for Lavigne however didn’t obtain an announcement by the point of publication.
