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Achtung Baby Live at Sphere

Sphere at The Venetian

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The world’s biggest rock band will launch the world’s most state-of-the-art venue. Enjoy the unprecedented U2:UV shows at Sphere at The Venetian with premium accommodations at The Venetian Resort Las Vegas, immersive fan moments and bespoke concierge service. Book your package now. 

KNOW BEFORE YOU GO Event Self-Parking rates are scheduled to be in effect for U2:UV show dates. Parking is subject to availability. For venue FAQs and additional pre-show information, please visit thespherevegas.com .

PACKAGE 1: VIP CONCERT & HOTEL EXPERIENCE

For U2’s biggest fans, Vibee’s elevated packages offer preferred seating and VIP entry to Sphere at The Venetian, two-night stay at The Venetian Resort, special perks like private happy hour at the immersive U2 Fan Portal exhibit and pop up shop, exclusive gift bag with limited-edition merch, complimentary entry to parties at multiple Tao Group nightclubs, and a very rare commemorative fan book mailed to you post-show.

PACKAGE 2: CONCERT & HOTEL

Packages include concert ticket, two-night stay at The Venetian Resort, and a souvenir lanyard with exclusive laminate.

Book these exclusive packages today.

Zoo Station: A U2:UV Experience

An immersive fan portal showcases all things U2 in support of their groundbreaking run of shows as U2:UV Achtung Baby Live opens at Sphere at The Venetian. Zoo Station is the ultimate hub for fans to interact with U2’s rich artistic legacy as the world’s biggest rock band launches the world’s most state-of-the-art venue in Las Vegas. Developed by Vibee in collaboration with Gavin Friday, U2’s longtime Creative Director, and with direct input from the band, Zoo Station comprises more than 12,000 square feet of interactive exhibit space across two floors, and is conveniently located within The Venetian ® Resort Las Vegas.

‘U2:UV Achtung Baby Live At Sphere’ Dates Announced

THE WORLD’S BIGGEST ROCK BAND WILL LAUNCH THE WORLD’S MOST CUTTING-EDGE VENUE – WATCH  HERE

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Sphere Entertainment Co. and Live Nation today announced dates for  ‘U2:UV Achtung Baby Live At Sphere’ , a first-of-its-kind live music experience which will see the world’s biggest rock band launch the world’s most cutting-edge venue, Sphere at The Venetian in Las Vegas. Watch  HERE . The long-awaited confirmation of dates comes after  U2 dropped the ultimate sneak peek – to a mass global audience – with  a Super Bowl commercial  back in February which let fans know that the band will return to the stage later this year for a special run of shows marking their first live outing in four years.

The following dates have been announced:

FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 29

SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 30

THURSDAY, OCTOBER 5

SATURDAY, OCTOBER 7

SUNDAY, OCTOBER 8

Bono and The Edge recently gave Apple Music’s Zane Lowe a sneak preview tour of Sphere and a glimpse into their ideas as they begin to create these shows. U2: The Zane Lowe Interview is now available  HERE .

TICKETS:  Tickets for this run of shows will be in high demand, therefore Verified Fan will be used to ensure more tickets get into the hands of fans who want to go to the show, not buyers looking to resell them. 

• Fans can register now for the Verified Fan presale  HERE . Fans who previously signed up for Verified Fan for U2 are automatically registered for the opportunity to participate in the presale.
• Registration for Verified Fan will close Wednesday, April 26 at 10am ET.
• Fans who are selected to receive an access code will be able to participate in the Verified Fan presale starting Thursday, April 27.

Tickets start at $140 and will reflect all-in pricing. This means the ticket price listed is the full out-of-pocket price inclusive of taxes and fees. The larger capacity at Sphere allows for 60% of tickets to be priced under $300 and there will also be a limited number of premium priced tickets per show.

U2.COM PRESALE :  U2.com subscribers will have first access to tickets through  Ticketmaster   Request , open now until Wednesday, April 26 at 10am ET. During this period, U2.com subscribers can sign into their Ticketmaster account, pick up to 3 shows and rank in order of preference, request up to 4 tickets and select the type of tickets preferred. To complete their request, fans will enter payment details and will only be charged if the request can be fulfilled. Requests will only be fulfilled for up to one show and up to 4 tickets. Fans will be notified via email of their request status, and if fulfilled will be provided a link to claim their tickets.

GENERAL ONSALE:  If any tickets remain, they will be sold during a general onsale starting Friday, April 28 at 10am at  Ticketmaster.com . On sale times will vary, check the Ticketmaster listing for more information. 

DETAILS ON GENERAL ADMISSION FLOOR TICKETS:  In an effort to help minimize resale and keep ticket prices at face value for fans, GA floor tickets for U2:UV Achtung Baby Live At Sphere will be restricted from transfer. They may only be resold at the original purchase price.

Fans will still have protection against unforeseen circumstances. Those who purchase tickets and are no longer able to attend their show will be able to sell their tickets at the price they paid using the Ticketmaster Face Value Exchange. More information on how the Ticketmaster Exchange works is available  here .

RED ZONE :  At each U2:UV Achtung Baby Live At Sphere performance, 50 tickets to experience the show from an exclusive VIP riser will be made available for purchase benefitting (RED), the organization founded by Bono and Bobby Shriver in 2006 to fight AIDS and the injustices that enable pandemics to thrive.

  “We’re so grateful once again to U2 for their generosity. And we’re very excited that each U2:UV Achtung Baby Live At Sphere performance will feature an iconic (RED) Zone, which lets fans choose (RED) and save lives while enjoying the show with an excellent view of the stage”, said Jennifer Lotito, President and COO of (RED). “Over the years, U2’s generosity has delivered nearly $23 million for (RED)’s fight to end AIDS. Thanks to U2 and U2 fans everywhere for helping (RED) make preventable and treatable disease preventable and treatable for everyone.”

VIP :  Vibee, the new music-led destination experience company founded by Live Nation, is the exclusive Hotel Package and VIP Experience provider for U2:UV Achtung Baby Live At Sphere. Vibee has fans covered from the minute they arrive. The range of elevated hospitality packages may include premium concert seating; hotel rooms at The Venetian Resort Las Vegas, the only resort attached to Sphere; priority entry into the U2:UV Fan Portal, an immersive, cutting-edge installation and pop-up shop at The Venetian; limited edition U2 memorabilia; nightclub access; bespoke concierge service and more. 

Citi Cardmembers Have Special Access to Vibee VIP & Hotel Packages now through May 3 at 10pm. For complete details visit  www.citientertainment.com . 

For complete date, ticket and Vibee VIP & Hotel Package information visit  https://u2.ticketmaster.com . 

‘U2:UV Achtung Baby Live At Sphere’  is the band’s latest ambitious creative project and will see them work once again with longtime U2 creative collaborator and show director Willie Williams. It follows the massive success of the band’s acclaimed Joshua Tree 30th anniversary stadium tour which was seen by over 3.2 million fans worldwide and their 2018 eXPERIENCE + iNNOCENCE indoor tour which played to a combined audience of 1 million across Europe and North America.

Acknowledged as the best live act in the world, U2 have always – since their earliest days, including the industry-defining ZOO TV Tour which broke the mold in 1991 – consistently pushed the boundaries of live performance, with ground-breaking stage shows that embrace the latest in technology and innovation. The announcement that the band will be the first musical act at Sphere, the next-generation entertainment medium that dominates the Las Vegas skyline, is fitting for a show from the world’s most thrilling live band. 

Bono, The Edge and Adam said,  “U2 hasn’t played live since December 2019 and we need to get back on stage and see the faces of our fans again. And what a unique stage they’re building for us out there in the desert… We’re the right band, ACHTUNG BABY the right album, and Sphere the right venue to take the live experience of music to the next level… That’s what U2’s been trying to do all along with our satellite stages and video installations, most memorably on the ZOO TV Tour, which ended in Tokyo 30 years ago this Fall. 

Sphere is more than just a venue, it’s a gallery and U2’s music is going to be all over the walls.”

The Edge added –  “The beauty of Sphere is not only the ground-breaking technology that will make it so unique, with the world’s most advanced audio system, integrated into a structure which is designed with sound quality as a priority; it’s also the possibilities around immersive experience in real and imaginary landscapes. In short, it’s a canvas of an unparalleled scale and image resolution and a once-in-a-generation opportunity. We all thought about it and decided we’d be mad not to accept the invitation.”

Sphere is a next-generation entertainment medium that will bring wonder to the world and redefine the future of live entertainment.  Sphere’s 22 nd  century technologies include a 16K x 16K LED display inside the main venue bowl that wraps up, over, and around the audience, creating a fully immersive visual environment. Sphere Immersive Sound, the world’s most advanced concert audio system, delivers crystal-clear audio to every seat in the house. Multi-sensory 4D technologies will enhance the storytelling experience so guests can “feel” the experience – such as the rumble of thunder or the feeling of a cool breeze. ‘U2:UV Achtung Baby Live At Sphere’ will tap into this cutting-edge technology, allowing fans to experience something completely new.

U2 is acknowledged as one of the best live acts in the world. Formed in Dublin in 1978, the band were marked out by their drive and ambition from the beginning. U2 has toured the globe countless times, released 14 studio albums, sold over 170 million albums and won numerous awards, including 22 Grammys and Amnesty International’s Ambassador of Conscience award. U2 were inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2005 and have twice been nominated for an Academy Award for Best Original Song: in 2003 for ‘The Hands That Built America’ for Gangs of New York, and in 2014 for ‘Ordinary Love’ for Mandela: Long Walk to Freedom. U2’s fourteenth studio album Songs Of Experience – the companion release to 2014’s Songs Of Innocence – was released in December 2017 debuting at #1 on the Billboard 200, setting U2 apart as the only band in history to have topped the chart in four successive decades. In 2018, the U2 hit the road with the eXPERIENCE + iNNOCENCE Tour, an arena production which saw the band continue to push the creative boundaries of technology and engineering. And following 2017’s acclaimed stadium run with The Joshua Tree Tour – the record-breaking smash hit tour celebrating the band’s seminal 1987 album The Joshua Tree – The Joshua Tree Tour took U2 to New Zealand, Australia, and Japan, as well as bring “the biggest band in the world” (The Guardian) to Singapore, Seoul, Manila and Mumbai for the very first time. In November, 2019, the band released a track in collaboration with A.R. Rahman titled ‘Ahimsa’, which was performed live at Mumbai’s, D.Y. Patil Stadium. In 2020, SiriusXM and U2 announced the launch of U2 X-Radio, a complete immersion into the work and influences of the band from the Northside of Dublin, all curated by U2. And in May 2021, Bono and The Edge collaborated with Dutch DJ Martin Garrix to create the track ‘We Are The People’ the official anthem for the UEFA 2020 European Football Tournament. 2021 also saw the release of a new U2 song ‘Your Song Saved My Life’, which featured on the original motion picture soundtrack for the animated feature film ‘Sing 2’. Songs Of Surrender – a collection of 40 seminal U2 songs from across the band’s catalogue, re-recorded and reimagined for 2023 in sessions spanning the last two years – was released on Friday March 17th and debuted at #1 in the UK and Ireland.  It also charted at #1 on 5 U.S. charts and in the Top 5 of the Billboard Top 200 chart. 

About Sphere 

Sphere is a next-generation entertainment medium that will bring wonder to the world and redefine the future of live entertainment. A venue where the foremost artists, creators, and technologists will create extraordinary experiences that take storytelling to a new level and transport audiences to places both real and imagined. The venue will host original Sphere Experiences from leading Hollywood directors; concerts and residencies from the world’s biggest artists; and premier marquee events. The first Sphere venue is currently under construction in Las Vegas and is expected to open in fall 2023. It will be a new Las Vegas landmark, powered by cutting-edge technologies that ignite the senses and enable audiences to share experiences at a never-before-seen scale. More information is available at  thespherevegas.com . 

About Live Nation Entertainment

Live Nation Entertainment (NYSE: LYV) is the world’s leading live entertainment company comprised of global market leaders: Ticketmaster, Live Nation Concerts, and Live Nation Sponsorship. For additional information, visit www.livenationentertainment.com .

The full length Super Bowl trailer announcement for  U2:UV Achtung Baby Live At Sphere  can be viewed  HERE .

For U2 (US): Kristen Foster / [email protected]

For U2 (UK/Ireland): Brídín Murphy Mitchell / [email protected]

For Sphere: Mikyl Cordova / [email protected]

For Live Nation: Monique Sowinski / [email protected]

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Bono and U2 will return for their residency at the Sphere this month, and tickets are still available for those looking to see the hit band at the stunning Las Vegas venue. The Irish rock band completed its first leg of 25 concerts at the Sphere between September and December last year and will complete their residency in 2024 after 40 total shows. We have everything you need to know on how to buy U2 Sphere tickets.

The 2023-2024 concert series, titled U2: UV Achtung Baby Live at Sphere, is the inaugural residency for the Sphere, a spherical music and entertainment arena near the Las Vegas Strip. The new arena boasts features such as a 16K resolution wraparound LED screen inside, seating for 17,500 patrons, 4D physical effects for audiences, and high-tech and immersive sound systems.

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After completing their first 25 shows in December, U2 returns to the Sphere for 15 more performances between January and March 2024. The U2 band members performing for the residency include Bono, the Edge, and Adam Clayton, with Krezip's Bram van den Berg filling in for Larry Mullen, Jr. on the drums.

With U2's 2024 leg of the concert series quickly approaching, tickets are selling fast. We've got you covered if you're still looking for tickets to U2's Sphere concert tour. Here's our breakdown of U2's Sphere schedule, purchasing details, and original and resale ticket prices. Or, you can browse the available tickets left on StubHub and Vivid Seats at your leisure.

U2 Sphere 2024 tour schedule

U2 kicks off their 2024 leg at the Las Vegas Sphere on January 26. The Irish rock band will play 15 more performances before taking their final bow of the concert series on March 2. The time zone is listed in Pacific Time, local to Las Vegas. 

*The February 2 performance is a special event called U2:UV and will see the band play the Achtung Baby album in full.

How to buy tickets for U2 Sphere concert tour

U2's Sphere residency tickets have been on sale for several months, so the remaining available quantity is limited. Several concert dates have already sold all original tickets. However, original and verified resale tickets can still be purchased for most dates on platforms like Ticketmaster .

For the best prices, you may have better luck through verified resale ticket vendors like StubHub and Vivid Seats . These platforms still have numerous tickets being resold for U2's 2024 Sphere residency.

How much are U2 Sphere ticket prices?

Tickets to see U2 at the Sphere are relatively expensive. However, you'll generally find better prices on the band's weekday Wednesday and Thursday performances compared to their Friday and Saturday dates.

Original tickets to the Sphere on Ticketmaster start at about $467 for reserved seating, with general admission tickets already being completely sold out. The lowest price for an original ticket on Ticketmaster is $467 for the February 9 show. However, the lowest available price for an original ticket to the February 3 performance is $923.

Tickets on verified resale vendors are generally cheaper across all dates. On StubHub , the least expensive ticket price available is $365 for U2's Sphere concert on February 9, which is over $100 cheaper than an original ticket on Ticketmaster for the same date. Likewise, Vivid Seats ' verified resale ticket prices for February 9 start at $356.Two VIP concert and hotel packages are also available for U2's remaining performances at the Sphere in 2024. The VIP packages available through Vibee have three options that include two-night stays in a nearby hotel and premium seating at the concert. Prices for the VIP package generally start around $1700-$2,000, depending on the concert date and availability.

How to travel to Las Vegas for the U2 Sphere shows

Las Vegas is one of the most popular travel locations for tourists in the world, even more so in February with the Super Bowl coming to town. But there are no shortages of hotels, Airbnbs, and flights. 

We've picked out a few travel and accommodation options to help you plan your trip once you've picked up your U2 tickets. That being said, if you're flexible on dates, it might be worth considering if you can save a significant stack on travel/hotels on different dates and weigh that up with the ticket costs to get the best overall price for your trip.

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Who is opening for U2's tour?

The opening act for U2: UV Achtung Baby Live at Sphere 2024 concert dates is Pauli "the PSM" Lovejoy, who also opened for the band during the 2023 leg of their residency. Pauli "the PSM" Lovejoy is a musician known for songs like "I DON'T CARE" and "Milkyway."

The U2 Sphere residency is confined to the venue in Las Vegas, Nevada, so no international tour dates will be associated with this concert series due to the unique nature of the venue.

U2 has no separate international concert dates confirmed for 2024, but the band could still announce additional dates after their Sphere residency concludes.

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U2 Takes to Playing in the Round (the Very, Very Round) at Las Vegas’ Sphere With Spectacular Results: Concert Review

By Chris Willman

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“Who spiked your drink?” Bono asked the crowd early on. It was a rhetorical question, but the answer is, Willie Williams did. He is the creative director of 40 years standing now for U2, and he’s outdone himself with a series of settings — some directed by him, some outsourced to amazing digital artists like Es Devlin — that blow your mind, then give it a helpful rest, and then return for further sensory overload at the end. None of these visuals are ever in much of a rush, with the exception of one setpiece lifted from the original Zoo TV tour that is actually about overload, with printed slogans passing across the big screens faster than you can take them in.

Apart from that one bit, Williams knows that your brain has to take a while to take anything, so you never feel like you have to close your eyes to give yourself a break. But it is heady, especially in one of the first numbers, “Even Better Than the Real Thing,” which has a flow of pop and film imagery that includes a lot of shots of Elvis Presley and Frank Sinatra, embedded in an ornate, almost Hindu-temple-like tapestry. Look carefully during that segment, and you will see the recurring image of Dennis Hopper’s Frank Booth in “Blue Velvet,” huffing on whatever he was huffing on in that movie. You may know a little bit now how jacked-up Frank Booth feels, minus the malevolence.

Not to take any credit away from U2, but the most impressive moment of the Sphere show may be when you first walk in the room. And that happens on two levels, literally. Above you, that massive domed ceiling has been made to look like you are in some industrial grain silo that has been constructed sky-high. (One seatmate described the feeling of looking up at this while waiting for the show to begin as “terrifying… but not in a bad way.”) It’s an immediate indication of some of the offbeat photorealism you will be in for. But at the same time, if you’re on one of the lower levels of the multi-tiered auditorium, looking out over the general-admission SRO floor, and block out what’s hovering over you (which is surprisingly easy to do), you suddenly feel like you’re in the world’s coolest nightclub. Or at least mega-club; at or slightly above floor level, it kinda just feels like the Hollywood Palladium, albeit with more of the audience wrapped around the sides of the stage.

Or, in the comparison Williams brought up in an interview with Variety , “Being on the floor is going to be quite something. It feels so small. I was laughing with Adam because we both for some reason thought of Hammersmith Palais.” That’s the kind of analogy people bring up when they’re trying to convince you that their mega-show has some kind of real human scale to it… but damn it, he didn’t lie.

But certainly Williams and the band don’t intend for you to spend very much of the show thinking about how cool minimalism is… just the middle part. It has been front-loaded, and to a lesser extent backloaded, with crazy-ginormous effects. As Williams said in his Variety interview, he knows the human mind adjusts quickly and even the most mind-expanding stuff can seem normal after about a half-hour, so those first 30-50 minutes include most of the wildest stuff in the production. There’s one segment where the video screen turns this cornerless room into a rectangularly shaped space, and you can only guess at how the designers had to bend the laws of physics to create that illusion on a circular screen. The most jaw-dropping moment of the night, arguably, comes when you look straight up and see what appears to be an elevator made up of data descending down toward you. It can only be described as a very slow-motion, more abstract version of the chandelier dropping in “Phantom of the Opera.”

The only other visual bit that requires you to crane your neck actually involves the show’s one use of a practical, versus purely digital, effect. During “Who’s Gonna Ride Your Wild Horses” (which lyrically, as you may recall, invokes Jacob’s ladder), what looks like an endless series of sheets tied together rises toward the peak of the dome. At first it’s not clear if this is another screen image, but the sheet-ladder is real, and it’s spectacular, as it connects to an animated balloon up in the heavens. Bono then invited a young woman on stage to “walk” the balloon around the stage, and eventually to go for a swing in a loop that was formed at the bottom. It was just weird-ass, and also completely lovely.

Other visual motifs tended to be more stationary, and face-forward for the audience: images of flags, made up of fire or smoke; a field of dotted white lights that could have been an abstract cityscape, or maybe a field of electric poppies; undulating ripples on water. Sometimes live images of the four players (including guest drummer Bram Van Den Berg) were projected large-scale, but sometimes their visages were tiny, floating bubbles in a vast visual sea, like a picture-in-picture effect. The finale of the “Achtung Baby” section(s) turned the dome into a beautiful solid blue, before that screen began to be blotted out, little by little, by giant bees and flies, until it was almost completely blacked out by bugs. (Love is blindness, indeed.)

And yet, for all that, when I think back on highlights of “U2:UV,” I’ll think of the band thundering its way through “Acrobat,” one of the least-played or least-celebrated “Achtung Baby” songs, with nary a special effect in sight. We haven’t talked much about the music yet, which is an inevitable byproduct of what Sphere brings to the table as this show’s real raison d’etre. But an “Achtung Baby”-based show was overdue, for those of us who consider it the band’s very greatest album, however inevitable it might have been that “The Joshua Tree” was the one that the quartet toured around the world for a few years in a retrospective show in 2017-19. The biggest joy of this residency is… well, fine, the spectacle of the thing, but the second-biggest joy is getting to hear some of those deeper “Baby” tracks, to which attention must also be made. The opening of the Sphere show features the eight tracks from that 1991 LP everyone most knows and loves — it’s practically a one-album greatest-hits set unto itself — but isolating the less famous final four into a separate segment near the end provides a portion of the show that will feel especially rewarding for the group’s most faithful fans. Hearing the Edge go to town with extended soloing on that album’s closer, “Love Is Blindness,” is a treat that’s been denied a reprise for too long.

As previously noted in a story recapping the first night’ s setlist , there is a midpoint portion of the show, interrupting the two “Achtung Baby” segments, that seems as if it will be designed to be U2’s equivalent of Taylor Swift’s nightly “secret songs” segment. And it’s this bit of the show that will give anyone who is even fortunate enough to be catching it on another night a good case of FOMO, as Bono indicated they will use it to showcase a different album from their catalogue each evening. (There are 25 shows in the residency, and definitely not that many U2 catalog albums to go around, so only time may tell exactly what the rotation entails.) On opening night, seemingly as a nod to producer Jimmy Iovine being in the house, the four songs in that segment were all from “Rattle and Hum.” All were played in a semi-acoustic format (basically, with the Edge playing acoustic guitar; they didn’t make the new drummer play with brushes or anything). Bono introduced “Angel of Harlem” as a song they stole from Bob Dylan, and if it wasn’t immediately clear what he meant, it quickly became so when the Edge started strumming what basically amounted to the acoustic guitar riff from “Tangled Up in Blue” to start off the number.

How phenomenal is the sound in Sphere? It’s tempting to want to go back and sit in the back row to find out, but at the 100s level, at least, it was more wonderful than anything we’ve ever heard in an 18,000-capacity venue. And considering that even Dolan has acknowledged that dome-shaped buildings intrinsically have the shittiest sound of all, that’s saying something. Sphere’s team of inventors have created a system that micro-targets concertgoers wherever they’re sitting, and a demo that was done for journalists showed how it is even possible to make it so that patrons sitting three seats apart could hear a lecture in different languages, with no bleed-over. There is no use for that particular audio stunt in a U2 show (the “uno, dos, tres, quatro” count-off Bono does at the beginning of “Vertigo” was not translated into English anywhere in the auditorium). But the most basic goal, of offering studio-quality sound on a massive scale, seemed to have been met.

Bono did not get sentimental much, during the show — it was a time of mirth, with no retrospective talk about the “Achtung Baby” era or the album itself, which was more or less just treated as if it were the band’s new album. But he did get choked up when he name-checked Jimmy Buffett — “Everybody knew him,” the singer explained, whether we’d ever imagined Bono chilling out on a fishing yacht or not —and offered a dedication to the family, friends and doctors of the late Jimmy Buffett, whom he said were all in attendance, checking them off by name. “Fuck, it’s hard to say goodbye to somebody,” he said. Implicit in these shows, with Larry Mullen Jr. temporarily out of the picture for recovery from surgery (but mentioned repeatedly during the concert), is that we may not be privy to these kinds of shows, at this level of vigor, forever, even if it seems like the 30-plus years since Zoo TV have passed in the blink of an eye.

It may seem corny to say that a big sphere could make you think about the Big Picture. But the show saved its possibly its best audio-visual moment — definitely not its trippiest or most elaborate, but its most beautiful — for last: a design by Es Devlin that had a nearly Michelangelo-esque tapestry of still-life flora and fauna taking over the wrap-around screens, while the band performed a closing “Beautiful Day,” after a brief mention by Bono of how all God’s creatures need to be considered among changing temperatures. As the crowd exited, Devlin’s design was projected on the exoskeleton of Sphere just as it had been on the interior… a canny instance of bringing the inside outside, after the opposite had been achieved earlier. For all the “2001”-recalling graphics seen on the exterior of Sphere during other moments, this one was a reminder that mortal life itself is the ultimate trip.

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U2 Returns, in Las Vegas Limbo

In the inaugural show at Sphere, a $2.3 billion venue, a band unafraid of pomp and spectacle was sometimes out-pomped and out-spectacled.

By Jon Caramanica

Jon Caramanica saw Friday’s show at Sphere in Las Vegas, and U2’s Zoo TV Tour in 1992.

Perhaps the true gift of Las Vegas is how it renders the extraordinary as mundane. A place where the simulacrum of glamour available to everyone ensures no one gets the real thing. A city responsible for billions of dollars of commerce that has the texture of a Fisher-Price play set. A hub for some of the country’s most beloved performers that blurs the lines between superstar D.J.s, cheeky magicians and bona fide vocal heroes.

And so there was Bono on Friday night, onstage, tantalizingly close, freakishly accessible and, in some moments, perhaps just a tad lost. His band, U2, was inaugurating Sphere, a hyperstimulating new performance venue in which the whole exterior is a screen, and essentially the whole interior as well. Friday’s concert was the first of a 25-show residency, titled U2:UV Achtung Baby Live at Sphere, that runs through the end of the year.

Throughout the 1980s and 1990s, no band played with the aesthetic of grandiosity more than U2, and no band made a philosophy of futurist communication so central to its visual presentation. So the choice of U2 to show off what Sphere was capable of made sense — a messianic band for a messianic venue.

For two hours, the group — Bono, the Edge on guitar, Adam Clayton on bass and Bram van den Berg, filling in for Larry Mullen Jr., on drums — wrestled with a venue equally as obsessed with hugeness, pomp and spectacle as U2 is. The setting was lavish, and the gestures were often colossal. And yet for all the vividness of the setting, there was still something not quite complete about this performance, which at times was winningly small, at others winningly huge, and at still others a futile ramble.

For this show, U2 leaned heavily on its 1991 album “Achtung Baby,” from the tail end of its commercial high point — an album that found the band, which excelled at earthen anthems, reaching for more ambitious and unexpected sounds. But playing it in full (though not in order) meant peaks and valleys. Meshed in vocal harmony on “Mysterious Ways,” Bono and the Edge sounded vibrant. Bono, who throughout the night performed his signature contortions that recall a person who just received an electric shock, was largely delivering his pleading howls with commitment, at least in the show’s first half. Throughout, Clayton was dutiful and stoic, and van den Berg brought a raw fervor that Mullen doesn’t quite approach.

But some of this era’s indelible songs were, here, something less than that: Both the signature ballad “One” and the dreamily tragic “Who’s Gonna Ride Your Wild Horses” felt tentative and less invested than usual. (The same went for the curiously dry version of “Desire” that appeared later in the show.) And a batch of “Achtung Baby” songs that appeared just after the show’s midpoint, including “So Cruel,” “Acrobat” and “Love Is Blindness,” verged on grim and asphyxiating, rendering the huge room inert.

There were a few lovely flourishes where U2 referred to other musicians — sprinkles of “Purple Rain” and “Love Me Tender” at the end of “One”; throaty nods to “My Way” and “Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band” late in the night.

In truth, the performance peaked at the end, with a majestic run: “Where the Streets Have No Name,” “With or Without You,” “Beautiful Day.” And it was here that the band used the venue to most potent effect. Suddenly, the room was bright, as if a nightclub performance had been yanked out into nature — you could really see the audience, consisting largely of 40- and 50-somethings, including huge smatterings of loyalists in vintage U2 shirts and Vegas bros in tight Dan Flashes get-ups.

It was a welcome and thoughtful recalibration of band to room, and audience to band. Just before then, during the new song “Atomic City,” the entire screen was an uncannily clear street view of Las Vegas, with the buildings being slowly dismantled through the course of the song, a clever visual gimmick. (For some parts of the show, the band hardly used the sphere at all, or only to display building-high videos of themselves.)

Earlier in the set, U2 had used the screen just as aggressively but to less potent effect, making it plain how daunting a blank slate of this size can be. At one point a long rope — perhaps a nod to a magician’s endless handkerchief — was strung from the floor up to the peak of the dome, where it intersected with a balloon illustration. A young woman came onstage to walk with Bono as he, and then she, held the bottom of the rope. For a time she sat in it like a swing, awkwardly and perhaps not terribly safely. It was confusing and distracting.

When the screen was full, it was often cluttered — with Barbara Kruger-esque phrases, during “The Fly,” or with digitally crisp art that could have been cooked up on an A.I. generator like Midjourney. (The illustrated endangered animals that appeared in the sky near the end of the show were an exception.) Sometimes things delved into the realm of discomfort: During “Even Better Than the Real Thing,” the screen filled with Vegas iconography and characters from films based in the city (Elvis Presley, but also Don Cheadle and Nicolas Cage). The collage streamed downward, as if it were falling behind the stage, which in turn made the stage appear as if it were tilting slightly upward, lending the whole affair the air of seasickness.

Moments like these underscored that, as much as U2 was playing a concert, it was providing a soundtrack for Sphere’s technological wizardry. And also its technological quirks. The four spotlights behind the stage were mobile. A drone whizzed around, gnat-like, though it was unclear where the footage it was presumably filming was destined for. This isn’t quite a conceptual spectacle like the Zoo TV Tour , the original “Achtung Baby” showcase.

Sphere is the brainchild of James Dolan, a broadly reviled New York sports and real estate magnate, who spent $2.3 billion bringing the space to life. It looks prescient , a glimpse of what even ordinary architecture might resemble a few decades hence. The entire outside surface is an LED screen — always on, and always changing (though it repeats). Watching it from the windows of a landing airplane, say, or a taxicab the night before this show, you might have seen it as a pumpkin, or a yellow emoji face, or a moist eye, or an ocean with creatures swimming through it.

Impressively detailed and lightly shocking, Sphere registers in intensity if not scale — at 366 feet, it is not even one of the 40 tallest buildings in Las Vegas. But on some level, its power is grounded simply in the novelty of the shape, even in a town that already has a pyramid and a palace and a castle. (Dolan has already indicated plans to build similar structures in other cities.)

But inside it is, simply, a concert venue, albeit one with distinct advantages and challenges. In dry stretches, when the space between the band and the huge screen and the crowd was palpable, the result paralleled the airy emptiness of a corporate convention gig. In a stadium show, you can almost obscure a low-enthusiasm performance — here there was nowhere to hide.

That’s because, despite the visual ambition the space demands, little of that burden falls on the band itself, which is largely confined to the size of stage one might find in any regional theater across the country (augmented by a Brian Eno-inspired turntable structure, though it wasn’t used terribly effectively). It is a strangely vulnerable and inelegant setup for what is essentially a sinecure gig for a still-craved band.

At the end of the night, Bono began cataloging his thanks. “I’ll tell you who’s one hard worker — Jim Dolan,” Bono said. “You’re one mad bastard.” He also thanked Irving and Jeffrey Azoff, Michael Rapino, Guy Oseary, Jimmy Iovine and other executives. Earlier, he’d acknowledged some special guests: Paul McCartney, Dr. Dre, Snoop Dogg. (Also in the audience, though not acknowledged: Flavor Flav.)

It was a folksy way to spotlight the sheer extent of the labor, visible and invisible, that had just been performed. And it also highlighted the tension that remained, even at the end of the night, unresolved: Was this a big show or a small one? Was it selling intimacy or grandeur? Was it extraordinarily mundane, or mundanely extraordinary?

Jon Caramanica is a pop music critic for The Times and the host of the “Popcast” podcast. He also writes the men's Critical Shopper column for Styles. He previously worked for Vibe magazine, and has written for the Village Voice, Spin, XXL and more. More about Jon Caramanica

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U2 Announce Dates for 2023 ‘Achtung Baby’ Las Vegas Residency

U2  just announced five shows in Las Vegas as part of their new "U2:UV Achtung Baby Live at Sphere Las Vegas" concert residency this fall.

The Irish rock band will open the new sphere-shaped music and entertainment arena Sphere at The Venetian Resort with the program based on their classic 1991 album, Achtung Baby . The residency was already announced; the dates are newly revealed. (More dates are likely to be added, Rolling Stone  said.)

See the shows so far near the bottom of this post.

U2:UV Achtung Baby Live at Sphere is the band's latest ambitious creative project and will see them work once again with longtime U2 creative collaborator and show director Willie Williams, a press release explains.

It follows the huge success of U2's  Joshua Tree 30th anniversary stadium tour which was seen by over 3.2 million fans worldwide and their 2018 "eXPERIENCE + iNNOCENCE" indoor tour which played to a combined audience of 1 million across Europe and North America.

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"U2 hasn't played live since December 2019 and we need to get back on stage and see the faces of our fans again," the band said on Monday (April 24). "And what a unique stage they're building for us out there in the desert. … We're the right band, Achtung Baby  the right album, and Sphere the right venue to take the live experience of music to the next level."

The U2 members added, "That's what U2's been trying to do all along with our satellite stages and video installations, most memorably on the 'ZOO TV Tour,' which ended in Tokyo 30 years ago this fall."

However, U2's  Larry Mullen Jr.  won't be a part of the dates . The band has already named his replacement . Watch a trailer below.  Get U2 tickets and more info here.

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Sept. 29 – Las Vegas, Nev. @ Sphere Sept. 30 – Las Vegas, Nev. @ Sphere Oct. 5 – Las Vegas, Nev. @ Sphere Oct. 7 – Las Vegas, Nev. @ Sphere Oct. 8 – Las Vegas, Nev. @ Sphere

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All U2.com paid subscribers are eligible to submit a ticket request for the newly added shows.

During the request period, U2.com subscribers can sign into their Ticketmaster account, pick up to five (5) shows and rank in order of preference, request up to four (4) tickets per show, and select the type of tickets preferred.

To complete their request, fans will enter payment details and will only be charged if the request can be fulfilled. If confirmed, requests will only be fulfilled for one (1) show and up to four (4) tickets. Note that your card will be charged once registration closes if your ticket request can be fulfilled.

*This program is only open to U2.com paid subscribers. If you are not a paid U2.com subscriber and submit a request, your request will be removed from consideration.

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Ticketmaster Request is a simple way to request tickets to popular shows, so you don’t have to compete in a first-come, first-served sale. You can take your time to review the available options and request the right tickets for you. All you need to do is tell us which show you’re interested in, the type of ticket you want and your payment details. If tickets that match your request are available, your card will be charged, and we’ll email you instructions on how to claim them.

When is the latest I can subscribe to U2.com and still qualify to take part in the U2.com Subscriber Presale powered by Ticketmaster Request?

The request window for the U2.com Subscriber Presale powered by Ticketmaster Request is ope now through Tuesday, December 5 at 10 p.m. PT . Anyone subscribing ahead of that time will be able to place a request for tickets until the window closes at 10:00 p.m. PT/1 p.m. ET on December 5. Please note: Not everyone who submits a request is guaranteed tickets.

If you are not an eligible U2.com subscriber, you can purchase a subscription now — tap HERE to get started.

When will you confirm if my request was fulfilled and charge my card?

Ticket confirmations will be sent Tuesday, December 5 . If your request is fulfilled, we will notify you by email and immediately charge the credit card you provided.

You will only be charged if your request is fulfilled. To avoid a declined transaction, please make sure your card has available funds.

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Vibee is the exclusive Hotel Package and VIP Experience provider for U2:UV Achtung Baby Live At Sphere.

The range of elevated hospitality packages may include premium concert seating; hotel rooms at The Venetian Resort Las Vegas, the only resort attached to Sphere; priority entry into the U2 Fan Portal, an immersive, cutting-edge installation and pop-up shop at The Venetian; limited-edition U2 memorabilia; nightclub access; bespoke concierge service, and more.

Hotel & VIP Experience packages for all shows, including the newly added dates, are available for purchase now from Vibee — tap HERE to purchase.

Common Questions

What is the ticket limit for u2:uv achtung baby live at sphere in las vegas.

Fans are eligible to purchase up to four (4) tickets for one (1).

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All tickets will be delivered as SafeTix mobile tickets.

What is all-in pricing?

This means the ticket price listed is the full out-of-pocket price, inclusive of taxes and fees.

What does it mean if a ticket is restricted from transfer?

When tickets are restricted from transfer, it means that the transfer feature is disabled to prevent tickets from being resold for a profit.

If you purchase tickets that are restricted from transfer and can no longer attend a show, you can sell your tickets at the price you paid using the Ticketmaster Face Value Exchange.

What is Ticketmaster’s Face Value Exchange?

Ticketmaster’s Face Value Exchange allows fans to sell their tickets to other fans at the price they paid, including fees and taxes. Event Organizers choose to use the Ticket Exchange to protect fans who can no longer make the show. It also gives fans looking for tickets the chance to purchase them at the original price.

More information on how the Ticketmaster Exchange works is available HERE .

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• Where the Streets Have No Name ( w/ "Moment of Surrender" & The Beatles’ “All You Need Is Love" snippets ) Play Video
• With or Without You ( followed by "thanks" to colleagues, friends, family, crew ) Play Video
• Beautiful Day ( with The Beatles’ “Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band” and “Blackbird” snippets ) Play Video
• Song played from tape Glorify ( Vocals: Brittany Howard ) Play Video
• Song played from tape What a Wonderful World ( Louis Armstrong  song) Play Video

Note: First U2 show without Larry Mullen, Jr., Bram van den Berg on drums; first time 'Achtung Baby' performed in full at a show; first performance held at the Sphere; “Angel of Harlem” snippets were covers of Van Morrison and Thin Lizzy

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U2 is heading to Sin City for a residency inaugurating the Las Vegas skyline’s latest architectural feat: the MSG Sphere at the Venetian Resort.

The Irish band, which hasn’t played live since December 2019, announced over the weekend that the “U2: UV Achtung Baby” residency o will debut in the fall. Exact dates have not yet been announced, but fans were told to register through Ticketmaster for ticket information and forthcoming details.

What we do know is that the quartet will be down one original band member when the band returns to the stage.

Bono, the Edge and Adam Clayton will be joined by drummer Bram van den Berg, who will be sitting at the kit instead of founding member Larry Mullen Jr. as the latter takes “time out to undergo and recuperate from surgery in 2023,” the band said in a statement.

“It’s going to take all we’ve got to approach the Sphere without our bandmate in the drum seat, but Larry has joined us in welcoming Bram van den Berg who is a force in his own right,” Bono, the Edge and Clayton said.

The band didn’t provide details about Mullen’s health concerns but the Washington Post reported in November that the 61-year-old had issues with his neck and elbows that needed surgery.

“The Sphere show has been in the works for a long time. We don’t want to let people down, least of all our audience… the truth is we miss them as much as they appear to miss us… our audience was always the fifth member of the band,” the group said in a statement on its website . “Bottom line, U2 hasn’t played live since December 2019 and we need to get back on stage and see the faces of our fans again.”

The Rock and Roll Hall of Famers announced the MSG Sphere series of shows during a commercial that aired Sunday during the Super Bowl. The spot featured an imposing sphere looming over fans across the globe.

The new concerts will focus on the band’s critically acclaimed 1991 LP, “Achtung Baby,” which was nominated for an album of the year Grammy Award in 1993 and won the prize for rock performance by a duo or group with vocals that same year. Oscar winner Davis Guggenheim (“An Inconvenient Truth”) also chronicled the making of the album that revived U2’s early career slump for the 2011 documentary “From the Sky Down.”

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U2 praised the Sphere’s “unique stage,” which Madison Square Garden Co. officials announced in 2018 . The 17,500-seat arena is set to open in the fall and is designed “with sound quality as a priority” and boasts the first 16K screen “that wraps up, around, and behind the audience,” according to press statement.

The Dublin-found band has reportedly performed only twice without all four of its members since getting together in 1976. Mullen missed a show after breaking his foot in a motorcycle accident in 1978 and Clayton missed a performance in Australia because of health concerns in 1993, according to Bono’s new memoir, “Surrender.”

In January, U2 announced the March 17 release of its latest album, “Songs of Surrender.” The collection includes 40 songs from the band’s decades-long catalog that have been reimagined for 2023 and that were rerecorded over the last two years.

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It seems the Eagles will be landing at the Sphere.

James Dolan, executive chairman and CEO of Sphere Entertainment Co., mentioned the band in a Friday earnings call, perhaps ending the months-long speculation about whether the group would play the unique Las Vegas venue.

When asked about which artists might be on tap – current major touring acts or more legacy acts such as recent inhabitants U2 , Phish , and, starting Thursday, Dead & Company – Dolan noted the importance of visuals as part of the performance package.

“Every time an act books the Sphere, they have to create content around it,” Dolan said. “We will never have an act play the Sphere that doesn’t have something compelling on the screen … I think you’re going to find (with Dead & Company) that even if you’re not a Deadhead, you’re going to love the show. And I think the same will be true for the Eagles and the next acts we bring on.”

When reached by USA TODAY, neither Sphere Entertainment Co. nor the band’s representatives had further comment.

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The $2.3 billion venue, which opened in September boasting 40 shows from U2 , generated revenue of $170.4 million for its fiscal third quarter ending March 31, a slight uptick from the $167.8 million in the prior quarter.

The Eagles have been on their Long Goodbye Tour since a September kickoff at Madison Square Garden. In January, they played a pair of special “California Concerts” at the Kia Forum in honor of the band’s Southern California roots. When first announcing the tour, the Eagles said it would likely run until 2025.

Overseas tour dates are scheduled the last week of May into early June, but no other dates are confirmed beyond June 15 in the Netherlands.  

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By John Del Signore

Most big live-entertainment venues weren’t built with music as the first priority. The arenas and stadiums where you can catch the biggest acts are by and large optimized for sports, not sound. In this regard, and in many other ways, Sphere—the “The” is very much not Sphere’s preferred nomenclature—is a world apart. Madison Square Garden boss James Dolan spent $2.3 billion to build this high-tech temple to audio and visual obsessiveness in Las Vegas , and after five years of construction it finally opened last September, with a U2 residency that was repeatedly extended to a total of 40 nights.

Even before you get anywhere near it, Sphere commands attention. The venue’s instantly iconic “exosphere” utilizes 580,000 square feet of LEDs to display high-definition video art and advertisements day and night. You’ll first glimpse it from afar, bulging up like a mysterious alien orb between hotels on the Strip, or reflected, glimmering, in a glass façade. “Whoa—Sphere,” you’ll find yourself acknowledging, to no one in particular. Sphere claims you can even see Sphere from space, although this may or may not be true .

Sphere is all superlatives, and it’s challenging to write about the place without getting lost in hyperbolic white noise. But it really is a one-of-a kind live-music Valhalla, and there really is no large-scale concert experience to rival it anywhere on this planet. Scoff at the hype all you want: Sooner or later an artist you really dig will announce a Sphere residency, and you’ll inevitably find yourself struggling to decide how much money you can justify spending on a night inside this marvelous thing.

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The second band to headline Sphere was Phish, another institution equally unburdened by definite articles. Over the course of its 40-year career, the Vermont quartet has staked out a subculture of its own making by doing things its own way, focusing most of its energy on the live concert experience as opposed to album sales, cultivating an obsessive fan base through tireless touring and an uncompromising commitment to improvisation. Mainstream culture may have filed Phish under “jam band” long ago, but at its core the outfit is really a theatrical rock band, purveyors of psychedelia mutated by eclectic influences ranging from prog to bluegrass to barbershop, not to mention the occasional use of vacuum cleaners as wind instruments.

Phish booked just four nights at Sphere, far fewer than the market craved; face-value tickets for the Thursday-to-Sunday run sold out in nanoseconds, as did Ticketmaster's extortionary “platinum” tickets, for prices that made most responsible adults ask themselves questions like, “Christ on a cracker, is this really worth over a grand a ticket?” (Or as slightly less responsible parents might have wondered, “But when you think about it, is college still worth the investment?”)

But once you forget about the money—which is exactly what Vegas is designed to help you do—the experience is overwhelming. Imagine your favorite planetarium or IMAX theater, and multiply it by a magnitude of WTF . To put it in scientific terms, this room is ginormous, with a volume that could accommodate the Statue of Liberty—we’re talking the full-size Lady Liberty, not the compromised second draft from Planet of the Apes . The 160,000-square-foot LED screen extends all the way from the floor behind the stage, arcing up, up, up, and then, holy smokes, still further up , to 366 feet at its highest point, before curving all the way back to the last section in the rear. Look back at it from a lower level, and the 18,000-member audience seems to swell up like a giant wave of humanity, paused just before it starts to crest.

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Sphere’s LED canvas is by far the largest video screen on earth, capable of 16K ultra-high resolution. Behind the screen, out of sight but all-pervasive, are 168,000 speakers that use something called the Helmholtz Equation, which—in Sphere PR-speak—“create[s]…a new sonic technology known as ‘wave field synthesis.’” The gist: It’s a sound system that can be focused like a cannon to send each instrument, and even discrete riffs, sweeping and swirling around the vast room like invisible but palpable auditory pinballs. Gone are the slapback echoes and sludgy sound that plague most arena-rock shows; the acoustics and sound engineering are impeccable, light years beyond any other music venue of this size.

In short, even setting aside the visuals—and the seats with built-in haptics transmitting the music’s deepest vibrations directly to your spine—it’s such a perfect playground for a band like Phish that you have to wonder if Dolan has secretly been its biggest fan all along. (He’s undoubtedly a big fan of the money Phish has raked into Madison Square Garden during its 83 appearances at that venue.) The Phish mix was dialed in with an immersive clarity. Each of bassist Mike Gordon’s propulsive plucks on the Serek strings were front and center; keyboardist Page McConnell’s wide range of effects swirled and crunched throughout the room with sparkling vibrancy; and the percussive work of drummer Jon Fishman, a precise and unstoppable freak of nature behind the kit, kept everything moving like crisp clockwork. Anastasio, on guitar, was completely in command and knew exactly what to deliver in this space seemingly built for him.

Hearing this music fused with the ultra-high-def video was revelatory; Sphere can provide imagery of such clarity and at such an unreal scale that you may, like comedian Drew Carey, see the face of God.

How much would you pay to see the face of God? When Dolan sketched his idea for an ambitious new venue on a legal pad back in 2015, he said he wanted to “reinvent the live-entertainment industry.” Say what you will about Dolan, but mission fucking accomplished. Whether Sphere recoups its multibillion-dollar investment and becomes profitable will depend on the savviness of its programming and the continued existence of enough people with the disposable income to pay the eye-watering cost of admission— DINK s FTW! Sphere is either a last ludicrous monument to late-capitalist decadence or a license to print money, or maybe both. But judged solely on the merits of its engineering, interior design, acoustics, and technological innovation, it’s also an unequivocal success.

U2’s Sphere set lists were largely identical from night to night, as were the videos that unfurled across Sphere’s gigantic screen during each song. Phish’s Sphere performances were obviously a different story. Over the course of its comparatively shorter career, the band has prided itself on never performing the same set twice, and its improvisational ethos means that a song that’s over in five minutes at one show can become an epic rock odyssey that spans 45 minutes at the next ( Is this still Lawn Boy? IYKYK ).

So how the hell do you plan and create 12-plus hours of video art to accompany music so unpredictable? Phish’s Sphere design team, spearheaded by co-creative director Abigail Rosen Holmes (whose credits include the lighting design for the iconic Talking Heads performance captured in Jonathan Demme’s Stop Making Sense ), solved this problem by creating immersive backdrops with time and space to breathe. On the third night, during an extended “Pillow Jets,” a bioluminescent forest sprouted behind the band, glowing and expanding along with the unrelenting grooves. Later, during the anti-school rocker “Chalkdust Torture,” bands of golden star clusters filled the screens, stretching from Las Vegas to the Omega Nebula, ultimately turning green as the crowd of 18K Spherians were assimilated into the Matrix, where I write to you happily and with utmost satisfaction to report that AI is not to be feared and resistance is suboptimal.

The most crowd-pleasing imagery of the run was arguably the trio of gigantic 4D robots that came to life above the stage during the final night’s performance of “Ghost.” At turns menacing and goofy, the robots grew in size and seemed to advance out into the room with unclear intentions until they were temporarily replaced by another robot with lights in its eyes that it beamed at specific sections of the audience, targeting individual groups for assimilation. Look, maybe you had to be there. (And in the words of the immortal Otto Mann , you didn’t need drugs to enjoy it—just to enhance it.)

During the ’90s, an era whose dominant rock bands mostly served their songs up with a scowl, Phish could be found bouncing giddily on trampolines, performing on the back of moving trucks, donning “musical costumes” on Halloween, performing choreographed dances to certain songs, and bowing in unison like a traveling theater troupe at the end of every act. In 1993, it performed four shows at different venues on a stage set built to resemble a giant day-glo fish tank. Fast-forward 40 years, and the act is still transporting audiences under water, only this time it's doing it in front of a vast, hyperrealistic coral reef, with undulating kelp and schools of fish swerving to the music.

During the third night’s “Fuego,” stylized video of the band members lit up in volcanic red appeared high on the screen; their images grew more fractured as the song progressed. Again, maybe you had to be there; Sphere visuals—at once high tech and firmly in the psychedelic tradition of ’60s-era Joshua Light Show projections—defy easy description. But imagine being tossed around inside a giant kaleidoscope. Or being transported into an extradimensional tesseract like Matthew McConaughey at the end of Interstellar. Those who’ve experienced ayahuasca (including anyone smoking its synthetic version during the show) may have recognized the multicolored “grid” that expanded up into the heavens during songs like “Axilla, Part II.”

Of course, they can’t all be bangers. Video of a puppy licking a camera lens in extreme close-up ad nauseum during the improvised vocal jam in the prog masterpiece “You Enjoy Myself” was funny at first, but soon wore out its welcome. Then again, what kind of monster objects to puppy kisses? And a few less-than-awe-inspiring moments did provide a necessary breather during four nights of otherwise overwhelming visual stimulus. Many in attendance chose to sit down during parts of the performance, something you rarely see at a Phish show unless there’s about to be trouble. In Sphere’s haptic seats, sitting down was almost as intense as standing up: You could tilt your head back and marvel at hundreds of multicolored pulsating bubbles seemingly floating out of the screens and into the air above you as the vibrations pulsed through your chair.

The band seemed fully aware of how lucky it was, and most of the audience seemed similarly cognizant. A relief, considering what some of them paid. There were far fewer cellphones in the air than one might expect based on the videos that emerged from U2’s Sphere run, and far less shouty chatter. Instead, a hushed awe often took hold of the crowd, and grew particularly acute during songs like “Divided Sky.” The emotional peak of the run came during the encore on night two, when Phish performed its ’90s power ballad “Wading in the Velvet Sea,” a song that famously brought McConnell to tears when he sang it during what was to be Phish’s final performance in 2004. Twenty years later, 40 years on from the band’s formation, the Sphere version was accompanied by images of Phish's members and their families, spanning the group's history, from when they were just kids goofing around in a band to their current incarnation as dads still goofing around in a band, while taking it very seriously at the same time.

Music, the most temporally bound art form, has a funny way of leapfrogging through time; a song can collapse the distance between otherwise disparate moments of our lives. Seeing the floating photos of these four friends laughing together across decades, still together after all these years, underscored how rare and precious this phenomenon is. Who among us gets to hang out and be creative with their best friends from childhood as part of their jobs? And how much longer can this go on before someone gets tangled in a guitar cord while jumping on a trampoline and fractures a hip? But the montage was also a reminder that in live music, spectacle (and even awe-inspiring scale) are a means to an end; whether inside the world’s largest manmade spherical object or in the back of a bar, the audience’s emotional reaction is what matters.

What’s thrilling about Sphere at this juncture is that as much as Phish achieved, the potential of the place has yet to be fully tapped. It will be exciting to see what a Taylor Swift , a Harry Styles , or a Beyoncé might do with all the state-of-the-art toys the venue has to offer. In a world of packaged, disposable content and mass experiences that leave little room for true surprise, there is a demonstrable thirst for unique experiences. It’s a market that Phish has tapped into and cultivated throughout its career, and if anything, Sphere simply gave the group a way to deliver its audience more of what they do so well.

U2 to Launch Las Vegas‘ MSG Sphere With ’Achtung Baby’ Shows

• By Daniel Kreps

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More than seven months after rumors circulated that U2 would perform the first-ever concerts at Las Vegas ’ MSG Sphere, the Irish rockers officially announced on Super Bowl Sunday that they will stage shows dedicated to their 1991 LP Achtung Baby to launch the city’s massive new globe-shaped venue.

Bono and company — who have their sorta-new album Songs of Surrender arriving in March — previously teased the worst-kept secret in Sin City prior to the Super Bowl, posting an image of a newborn baby within the newly constructed MSG Sphere on a website not-so-subtly called U2xsphere.com . The official announcement came Sunday, with a mysterious UFO-themed ad for the ‘U2:UV Achtung Baby Live At The Sphere’ shows this fall.

“Bottom line, U2 hasn’t played live since December 2019 and we need to get back on stage and see the faces of our fans again. And what a unique stage they’re building for us out there in the desert… We’re the right band, ACHTUNG BABY the right album, and the Sphere the right venue to take the live experience of music to the next level… That’s what U2’s been trying to do all along with our satellite stages and video installations, most memorably on the ZOO TV Tour, which ended in Tokyo 30 years ago this fall. The Sphere is more than just a venue, it’s a gallery and U2’s music is going to be all over the walls.”

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The Edge added, “The beauty of the Sphere is not only the ground-breaking technology that will make it so unique, with the world’s most advanced audio system, integrated into a structure which is designed with sound quality as a priority; it’s also the possibilities around immersive experience in real and imaginary landscapes. In short, it’s a canvas of an unparalleled scale and image resolution and a once-in-a-generation opportunity. We all thought about it and decided we’d be mad not to accept the invitation.”

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Brazil makes huge U2 wish after Madonna’s record-breaking Copacabana show

H ot on the heels of Madonna ‘s record-breaking Copacabana show, Brazil wants to court other high-profile names such as U2 , who just wrapped up their Sphere residency in Las Vegas.

On May 4, Madonna played her biggest show ever. The free concert at Copacabana Beach in Rio de Janeiro drew a crowd of 1.6 million. That’s an impressive feat for an artist who has done it all.

Eduardo Paes, the mayor of Rio de Janeiro, is now lobbying for U2 to play in Brazil after Madonna’s show.

“There are a lot of people asking for Beyoncé, asking for Michael Jackson’s show in Las Vegas with a hologram, there are all kinds of requests, strong pressure,” Paes said (via O Globo). “But I just want to express that my lobby will be for U2.”

This would be monumental for the band. They have played Glastonbury and Slane Castle before, but the Copacabana Beach is a whole new game.

It has also been years since U2 last played in Brazil. Per U2Gigs, their last show took place on October 25, 2017, on their “Joshua Tree” anniversary tour. The band played four shows in São Paulo, Brazil, to close out the 2017 tour. Previously, they had visited Brazil on their “PopMart,” “Vertigo,” and “360” tours.

U2 has since embarked on the “Experience + Innocence” tour in 2018, another leg of the “Joshua Tree” tour in 2019, and the Sphere residency since their last shows in Brazil. The country is overdue for a visit from the band.

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U2 is a legendary rock band known for their iconic hits such as “Pride (In the Name of Love),” “Sunday Bloody Sunday,” and “With or Without You.” In their legendary career, the band has won 22 Grammys. They have been nominated for a grand total of 46 throughout their career.

Recently, they have been on the road a lot. Since 2015’s “Innocence + Experience” tour, U2 has embarked on three concert tours and a concert residency. The 2017 and 2019 leg of the “Joshua Tree” tour went international including U2’s Brazil shows.

Their Sphere residency began on September 29, 2023. U2 played 40 shows at the high-tech venue in Las Vegas through March 2, 2024. Larry Mullen Jr. is still recovering from health issues, so he did not play with U2 at the Sphere. Bono, The Edge, and Adam Clayton were joined by Bram van den Berg.

The residency was centered around their 1991 album, Achtung Baby. For the first time ever, the band played the album in full for the first time. As a result, the band dusted off deep cuts such as “So Cruel” and “Tryin’ to Throw Your Arms Around the World” for the first time in decades.

U2 also released their fifteenth studio album in 2023, Songs of Surrender. The album tied in with Bono’s memoir, Surrender: 40 Songs, One Story.

It features 40 songs from the band’s back catalog that were re-arranged and re-recorded for the album. Songs of Surrender marks the first time U2 recorded an album made up of non-original songs.

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