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Mary Varvaris

You wouldn't want to be Sleeping With Sirens today.

Sleeping With Sirens in Melbourne
Sleeping With Sirens in Melbourne(Credit: Jaz Meadows)
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Las Vegas-based music festival When We Were Young made headlines for the wrong reasons following its comeback on the weekend (19-20 October), with photos of merchandise sporting misspelled band names circulating online.

As independent music publication Stereogum reports, the merchandise contains at least eight band names spelled wrong. One of the band names we’ll list below, and its corrected title, isn’t so bad (could have been a stylistic choice), but the others? You wouldn’t want to be these bands:

  • The All-Amercian Rejects (The All-American Rejects)

  • New And Glory (New Found Glory)

  • We Are In The Crowd (We Are The In Crowd)

  • Sleeping With Siriens (Sleeping With Sirens)

  • Movevments (Movements)

  • Amor For Sleep (Armor For Sleep)

  • LS Dunes (L.S. Dunes)

  • Daisy Grendade (Daisy Grenade)

Photos are circulating on Reddit and other forms of social media. New Found Glory managed to joke about it and even release a limited run of misprinted merch, posting on X (formerly known as Twitter):

If you know you know! The festival merch this weekend ‘renamed’ a bunch of bands which was good for a ton of laughs. And ya know what? We liked ours so much we’re considering just changing our band name. For a limited test run, this shirt is available at newfoundglorystuff.com.

At the time of publication, When We Were Young organisers haven’t commented on the merch. Check out pictures of the merch below.

The All-American Rejects dropped off the bill just days before this year’s When We Were Young began, citing a contractual dispute. Most of the bands on the bill, including Australia’s own Tonight Alive, played an album of theirs that was 10+ years old in its entirety. For Tonight Alive, that was 2013’s The Other Side.

This year’s festival included My Chemical Romance playing The Black Parade, Jimmy Eat World playing Bleed American, A Day To Remember playing Homesick, The Starting Line performing Say It Like You Mean It, and more. It’s a festival for those who still love 2000s/2010s pop-punk and emo music; for them, it’s the dream festival.

Official 2024 'When We Were Young' Festival merch plagued by band name typos
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Merch typos
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