October 13, 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
7. Who's Gonna Ride Your Wild Horses
8. Tryin' to Throw Your Arms Around the World
9. All I Want Is You - Walk on the Wild Side
10. Desire
11. Angel of Harlem - Don't Look Back in Anger
12. Love Rescue Me
13. Acrobat
14. So Cruel
15. Ultraviolet (Light My Way)
16. Love Is Blindness - Viva Las Vegas
Encore(s):
17. Elevation - My Way
18. Atomic City
19. Vertigo
20. Moment of Surrender - Where the Streets Have No Name
21. With or Without You
22. Beautiful Day

Remarks:

U2 perform the seventh 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.

Tonight's setlist is shifted up a bit with "Acrobat" being moved up one spot ahead of "So Cruel". Bono's band introductions for tonight go like this: "This is the moment where I'd like to introduce the band. And especially the one band member who is not here. Drummers are not made, they are born, and they take a lot of punishment from singers. It's the truth. But we want to give it up for Larry Mullen Junior! Love you! And I want to thank you, Bram van den Berg, for saving our ass! When I was sticking out the window quite far, sometimes I ask Bram, have you a message? What's on your mind?" Bram van den Berg answers Bono: "Didn't I tell you never give your microphone to a drummer? But I would like to thank all the U2 fans for being so kind to me. And one little piece of Dutch advice for you all: Don't, don't go to bed."

Later, Bono gives his introduction to "Love Rescue Me": "Can you hear me whisper? Subjects where we will not bring up tonight, because, well, it's very upsetting for a lot of our friends and for all of us. So you can close your eyes and think about whatever you want to think about. Shut it, shut it, not going to talk about it. Sing to it, in a song we wrote, for the great Jewish mystic: Bob Dylan." In attendance at tonight's show is Noel Gallagher from Oasis, actress Ashley Judd, as well as Ali and Eve Hewson, Bono's wife and second oldest child.