Today, U2 announced a series of 2024 dates in their series of U2:UV Achtung Baby Live at Sphere shows in Las Vegas. U2 are the first to perform at the 17,500-seat venue with this series of performances; they launched their shows with the new song “Atomic City.” The new run of show includes dates that share a city and weekend with Super Bowl LVIII next year. (The band announced the Sphere shows with a Super Bowl commercial earlier this year.) Check out U2’s full dates, including the newly announced shows below.
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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.
