U2 Subverts Expectations at First Sphere Show: Photos, Set List

U2 each fulfilled and defied expectations at the opening efficiency of their Achtung Baby Live at the Sphere Las Vegas residency, balancing dazzlingly expansive visuals with musical intimacy.

You can see pictures, movies and the set record from the present beneath.

The band wasted no time exhibiting off the gorgeous capabilities of the groundbreaking new venue, which incorporates a huge immersive video show that wraps up, over and across the viewers. A flooring to ceiling patchwork of photographs and movies enveloped the group in the course of the opening “Zoo Station,” and the rotating visuals displayed throughout “Even Better Than the Real Thing” made everyone really feel like they have been on a big Ferris wheel.

Stunning results like these turned up all through the night time, as we have been transported into all-encompassing new environments comparable to a desert, a shoreline dominated by a large black sphere and a busy Las Vegas road.

READ MORE: See Inside U2’s Interactive ‘Zoo Station’ Vegas Exhibit

Watch U2 Perform ‘Zoo Station’

But the band saved their focus squarely on the music as nicely, acting on a tiny and comparatively naked stage formed like a turntable, surrounded by 4 lighted cranes. Their spare and natural four-piece sound contrasted with the state-of-the-art visuals, however in a great way. This was notably evident throughout a largely acoustic mid-show four-song set devoted to Rattle and Hum, throughout which the visible results have been saved to a minimal and the intimate capabilities of the brand new venue have been showcased.

U2’s Set List

As promised, a lot of the set was devoted to Achtung Baby, with all 12 of the 1991 album’s songs being carried out, some for the primary time in a long time. Bono was in a playful temper, working in snippets of a number of different songs into the present at numerous factors, comparable to Prince’s “Purple Rain,” Van Morrison’s “Into the Mystic” and Elvis Presley’s “Love Me Tender.” He additionally gave a shout-out to Paul McCartney, who was at the present, saying it was “like having Mozart” in attendance.

“What a fancy pad,” the singer famous early within the present. “Look at all this stuff. Elvis has definitely not left this building.” The Sphere additionally paid tribute to Presley with King Size, a large show of visuals depicting the life and profession of the King of Rock ‘n’ Roll.

The U2: UV Achtung Baby Live at Sphere residency is at the moment scheduled to proceed by way of mid-December.

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Watch U2 Perform ‘Even Better Than the Real Thing’

U2, 9/29/23, The Sphere, Las Vegas

1. “Zoo Station”
2. “The Fly”
3. “Even Better Than the Real Thing”
4. “Mysterious Ways”
5. “One”
6. “Until the End of the World”
7. “Who’s Gonna Ride Your Wild Horses”
8. “Tryin’ to Throw Your Arms Around the World”
9. “All I Want Is You”
10. “Desire”
11. “Angel of Harlem”
12. “Love Rescue Me”
13. “So Cruel”
14. “Acrobat”
15. “Ultraviolet (Light My Way)”;
16. “Love is Blindness”
17. “Elevation”
18. “Atomic City”
19. “Vertigo”
20. “Where the Streets Have No Name”
21. “With or Without You”
22. “Beautiful Day”