October 11, 2023 - Las Vegas, Nevada, USA - Sphere at The Venetian Resort

Photograph: Ross Stewart

Opening Act(s): Pauli "The PSM" Lovejoy

Setlist:

1. Zoo Station
2. The Fly
3. Even Better Than the Real Thing
4. Mysterious Ways
5. One - Love Me Tender
6. Until the End of the World - Two Tribes
7. Who's Gonna Ride Your Wild Horses
8. Tryin' to Throw Your Arms Around the World
9. All I Want Is You - In the Garden - Into the Mystic
10. Desire
11. Angel of Harlem - Like a Rolling Stone
12. Love Rescue Me
13. So Cruel
14. Acrobat
15. Ultraviolet (Light My Way)
16. Love Is Blindness - Invisible Sun - Viva Las Vegas
Encore(s):
17. Elevation
18. Atomic City
19. Vertigo
20. Moment of Surrender - Where the Streets Have No Name
21. With or Without You
22. Beautiful Day - Can't Stand Losing You - Blackbird

Remarks:

U2 perform the sixth of forty shows at the Sphere at The Venetian Resort in Las Vegas. Attendance is 18,600; a sellout. Tickets range from $140 to $500 (for presale ticket prices) but many sell at resale prices of $400 to $1,450. The opening music act is Pauli "The PSM" Lovejoy, who is the official Atomic MC / DJ host of the UV Dance Party opening each U2:UV Achtung Baby Live at Sphere concert.

Introducing "Mysterious Ways", Bono announces: "Singers love the desert, but the desert doesn't ALWAYS love singers, so you see me drinking a lot of water this evening!" After "All I Want Is You", Bono says: "I just sang that for Larry Mullen. Not since October 1978 has U2 played without Larry Mullen Junior. So let everyone in this spherical object send love to Larry now. Wherever he is now, Agent man, sending your love! And let me introduce to you the only man we would consider standing or even sitting in for our bandmate. Ladies and gentleman: Bram van den Berg, please stand up! And to my left, the very extraordinary Adam Clayton. The only thing Adam cannot do is flap and play bass... On guitar, and everything else... and so much more, an extraordinary bandmate and friend: The Edge."

During "Love Rescue Me", as he refers to the 10/7 Hamas attacks in Israel, midway through the song Bono takes out a moment and says: "So there is a subject we can't go into tonight, because it will break everyone's hearts here, so we're just gonna close our eyes and think where you want to send that - your love. When I was young, when we were young, we used to hear, ya know, people do this - I cringed. And I said 'shut the fuck up dude'. But I just think it's the right thing to do... just be hushed and send a prayer."