U2 kicked off their Las Vegas residency on the new MSG Sphere venue final evening (September 29) – see clips from the present and the complete setlist beneath.
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The Irish rock band’s residency is centred on a full play-through of their seventh album, ‘Achtung Child’ (1991) however, as confirmed by studies, the setlist shall be damaged up by a secret section specializing in a distinct U2 album.
Selection studies that singer Bono revealed to the gang the they plan to give attention to a distinct album (or probably different individuals’s albums, he added, teasingly), nonetheless, he didn’t make clear whether or not that may imply a setlist switch-up on every of the residency’s 25 reveals.
Final evening U2 performed the primary eight songs of ‘Achtung Child’ earlier than breaking right into a four-song secret section of their a hybrid dwell/studio album ‘Rattle And Hum’.
The band’s debut residency gig, which opened on the identical day that they launched their first new music in two years, ‘Atomic Metropolis’, was attended by a bunch of well-known faces together with Paul McCartney and Snoop Dogg. NME author Damian Jones additionally confirmed that Dr Dre and Taste Flav had been on the live performance.
Forward of performing ‘Angel Of Harlem’ from ‘Rattle And Hum’, Bono stated: “The macca [McCartney] is in our prescience. It’s like Mozart is in our presence.
“This isn’t a music we stole from The Beatles. We stole this from Bob Dylan,” the vocalist continued earlier than dedicating the music to the late Billie Vacation.
U2 additionally excerpted the Elvis Presley basic ‘Love Me Tender’, Frank Sinatra‘s ‘My Method’ Prince’s ‘Purple Rain’, Van Morrison’s ‘Into The Mystic’ and Skinny Lizzy’s ‘Dancing In The Moonlight.’.
They rounded off the present with their music ‘Stunning Day’ adopted by a medley mix into The Beatles’ Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Membership Band (Reprise) and ‘Blackbird’.
Watch U2 carry out ‘Angel Of Harlem’ and ‘Atomic Metropolis’ in clips filmed by NME (movies from elsewhere are additional beneath) – and see the complete setlist.
Right here’s U2 taking part in ‘Angel Of Harlem’ at The Sphere in Las Vegas pic.twitter.com/Bb184TVnGv
— Damian Jones (@damianjones1) September 30, 2023
Right here’s U2 taking part in their new single ‘Atomic Metropolis’ at The Sphere in Las Vegas tonight pic.twitter.com/0V5Ghs20mG
— Damian Jones (@damianjones1) September 30, 2023
Setlist:
‘Achtung Child’ half one:
01. ‘Zoo Station’
02. ‘The Fly’
03. ‘Even Higher Than The Actual Factor’
04. ‘Mysterious Methods’
05. ‘One’/’Purple Rain’/’Love Me Tender’
06. ‘Till The Finish Of The World’
07. ‘Who’s Gonna Journey Your Wild Horses’
08. ‘Tryin’ To Throw Your Arms Round The World’
‘Rattle and Hum’ interlude section:
09. ‘All I Need Is You’
10. ‘Need’/’Love Me Do’
11. ‘Angel Of Harlem’/’Into The Mystic’/’Dancing In The Moonlight’
12. ‘Love Rescue Me’
‘Achtung Child’ half two:
13. ‘So Merciless’
14. ‘Acrobat’
15. ‘Ultraviolet (Gentle My Method)’
16. ‘Love Is Blindness’
Encore:
17. ‘Elevation’/’My Method’
18. ‘Atomic Metropolis’
19. ‘Vertigo’
20. ‘The place The Streets Have No Title’
21. ‘With Or With out You’
22. ‘Stunning Day’/’Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Membership Band (Reprise)’/’Blackbird’
A glance contained in the immersive MSG Sphere enviornment in Las Vegas, which opened with a U2 live performance.
The 18K decision wraparound LED display screen measuring 160,000 sq ft (15,000 m²) with 166,000 audio system. The biggest and highest-resolution LED display screen on the planetpic.twitter.com/sHid0DEuZu
— Massimo (@Rainmaker1973) September 30, 2023
In the meantime, U2 have spoken about drummer Larry Mullen Jr taking part in “up a storm” within the studio when recording their new single ‘Atomic Metropolis‘, regardless of being saddled with surgical procedure restoration. Krezip drummer Bram van den Berg is filling in for Mullen Jr on the residency reveals in Las Vegas.
