October 18, 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. Happy Birthday
10. All I Want Is You - Walk on the Wild Side
11. Desire
12. Angel of Harlem - Suspicious Minds
13. Love Rescue Me
14. Acrobat
15. So Cruel
16. Ultraviolet (Light My Way)
17. Love Is Blindness - Viva Las Vegas
Encore(s):
18. Elevation - My Way
19. Atomic City
20. Vertigo
21. Moment of Surrender - Where the Streets Have No Name
22. With or Without You
23. Beautiful Day - What a Wonderful World - Glorify

Remarks:

U2 perform the ninth 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.

During "Tryin' to Throw Your Arms Around the World", Morleigh Steinberg, wife of The Edge, appears on the stage to celebrate her 58th birthday. She accepts the giant balloon from Bono as he sings for her. Before departing from the stage, she gives The Edge a kiss as Bono gives her thanks for teaching him how to dance.

Bono dedicates "All I Want Is You" to all the women in the world when he introduces the song: "Let's put the Achtung Baby to bed for a while, try to Rattle n' Hum. I'd like to dedicate the whole next song to not just Morleigh, but all the women in our life, Ali, our mothers, our daughters, all the women of the U2 crew. To the great women in the audience that we feel like we know. And to women in such difficult circumstances around the world, we can never know. But yeah, it's the right song. Stage looks like it sounds right now. It's a very complicated algorithm."

Prior to "Desire", tonight's band's introductions from Bono go like this: "Let me introduce you to a man who began his life, well, as a sort of student of Larry Mullen Jr. on the album Pop in 1998. He's now a PHD. When we started rehearsals in Dublin for this Sphere show, I left a few days to the real musicians, to kind of get to know each other, and to do what real musicians do, which is to ignore singers. And I came into our rehearsal room, and it was Edge and Adam, I was talking to them, how's it going, how's it working out? And in walked this Dutchman! And I looked at him, and I thought: 'Right, well you're too tall for a start, too good looking.' And he just looked at me and I looked at him and he looked at me and he said: 'Oh, so there is a fourth member in U2?' Cheeky fucker! This is Bram van den Berg. What a delight to get to know, your family, thank you sir. Have you anything you want to say? Play? Alright, now, let me introduce you also to the rest of the band. On my left, a Greek, no... Roman god, putting the Venus into the Venetian. Adam Clayton! Give us a flirtatious bass player. And on my right, the surrealist of the band, on guitar, a fish can ride a bicycle. Three chords and the trout! The Edge! And I can also introduce you on vocals. If you're not talking about him, he's not listening. Mouth almighty, a giant in his own mind: BONO!"