Saturday’s free show has taken a year to pull together and promises plenty of theatrical rock, tapping into the sounds of My Chemical Romance, Fall Out Boy, The Used and more.

Multiple acts will hit the stage across the night performing a collection of hits nominated through social media in recent months by fans of the genre.

Emo rock emerged from the US hardcore punk music scene in the mid-80 and was known as emotional hardcore or emocore, gaining mainstream exposure and evolving into pop punk over the next decade.