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No Rat Pack-channelling heritage à la Lady Gaga, belting her way through a show with the Ronseal title Jazz & Piano. There’s no jewellery-rattling from spenny bottle-serviced tables as Adele bangs out another weepie. The Irish band’s residency in the planet’s self-proclaimed entertainment capital stretches over 25 shows and 11 weeks in a spanking new, $2.3bn venue connected, by a bespoke, covered and carpeted walkway, to The Venetian, one of the city’s sprawling gambling resorts.īut don’t imagine this is anything like the showbiz of the more traditional casino-booked turn currently on offer elsewhere in Vegas. This is the opening night of (deep breath) U2:UV Achtung Baby Live at Sphere. And a lot of space in which to put that stuff: 5.7 million cubic feet, stretching 336ft into the desert sky, flexing 516ft wide on the Las Vegas strip. On Friday 29 September, as U2 kicked off their first live show in four years, the band’s new playroom did indeed contain a lot of stuff. Just wait till they see the cascade of AI-generated Elvises and the vertigo-inducing torrent of binary code that makes the stage feel as if it is plummeting away from them.

Packed below and above the 63-year-old in a well-behaved moshpit and steeply raked bleachers, 18,000 fans - tickets currently available from $400.21 - roar their agreement as the world’s biggest LED screen shimmers and hums. “Look at all this… stuff!” the singer exclaims as he stands on a stage modelled on an artwork designed by Brian Eno (“Turntable”, 2021, acrylic, LED lights). “What a fancy pad,” says Bono, gazing around him from behind the old bug-eyed “Fly” shades he’d put on, with no little theatricality, a couple of songs earlier.

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