Hawthorne Heights brought their Lonely World Tour to the Belasco in Los Angeles on Sunday, March 22, to celebrate the 20th anniversary of their 2006 gold-certified If Only You Were Lonely, the follow-up to their breakthrough debut The Silence in Black and White.

UK glamvamp rockers Creeper opened the set. Judging by the makeup and merch in the crowd, they were fan favorites of a decent portion of the crowd. Serving as the mistress of death from 2025’s Sanguivore II: Mistress of Death release, keyboardist/vocalist Hannah Greenwood was out from behind the keys and sharing fronting duties with Will Gould more than past LA Creeper shows. After this run, Creeper returns to tour Europe. They’ll be back in the States in October to hop back on the Lonely World Tour.

Shortly after playing their final farewell shows last year, letlive. announced on socials, “We’ve wrapped this chapter of letlive. You’ve all shown us ll.ove and a reason to continue. Thank you, we will see you next year,” before announcing they’d open this tour. They played a blistering set of “whatever the fuck this is,” as said by singer Jason Butler on stage. He shouted out Los Angeles punk, Los Angeles hardcore, Los Angeles hip-hop, and Los Angeles metal, and that’s a pretty accurate description of the elements of a letlive. set. It must be daunting to follow letlive., but as Butler also pointed out, Hawthorne Heights is grade-A emo. After this run, the band tours Europe and then returns for 3 North American Warped Tour dates before rejoining Hawthorne Heights on the Lonely World Tour: Part II in October.

In honor of the 20th anniversary of If Only You Were Lonely, the setlist included a playthrough of the album, changing up a typical Hawthorne Heights set. Popular set opener “This is Who We Are” and fan-favorites “Pens and Needles” and “Saying Sorry” make a lot of HH sets, but it was a cool experience to hear the rest of the album live. The album is the band’s most commercially successful album to date. It hit #3 on the Billboard 200 chart and #1 on the Top Independent Albums chart. Nevertheless, the ultimate HH fan-favorite is undoubtedly “Ohio is for Lovers” from the gold-certified debut album The Silence in Black and White, which the band played as an encore to give the fans the best of both worlds. They also played their new single “Like a Cardinal” and promoted the song on the huge LED screens leading up to their headlining set. The band continues touring all year, hitting Australia, Europe, Asia, and back to North America. Catch them on the festival circuit or almost anywhere in the world this year.