October 21, 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 - I Feel Love
5. One - Hear Us Coming... - 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 - Walk on the Wild Side
10. Desire - Shape of You
11. When Love Comes to Town
12. I Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For - Movin' On Up - The Promised Land
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 - Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band - Blackbird

Remarks:

U2 perform the eleventh 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.

Prior to "All I Want Is You", Bono is asked to temporarily leave the stage in order to repair a technical issue concerning Bono's vocal chain on the mixing desk. Adam AJ Rankin, U2's longtime set carpenter and Bono's stage manager and cousin, climbs up onto the giant turntable to have a word with him. A confused Bono responds with the following: "Front of the house? I have to go offstage? Back in a minute, says AJ? Alright! Edge... I cannot really do that. I'm not really ready to leave here." Adam starts plucking some bass notes. Bono continues: "I don't care if they're having a problem with the console. Can we sing one more tune at least? Just about to get married here! I was just telling a story about these people that we met earlier in the Summer who built this place. Hard working people, ya know? In fact, the whole city is full of hard working people. They work 24 hours a day around here. Waitresses, acrobats, sports followers, taxi drivers, ya' know, it's 24 hours a day. And I just want to say thank you for being kind to us. And I'm not drinking as much as I used to, but we went out with the team a few times, and it kind of felt like we got married, sort of thing. Not in Vegas, but to Vegas. Yeah, bringing the cliches down about Las Vegas. Yeah, there's a few. Las Vegas is more honest about its citizens than most cities, don't you say that? Now I'm being fascinated by 'faith' versus 'look' all my life really. I know the band are really lucky, but I'd like to think that we also have a love that transcends that. A love of each other, a love of our audience. And you know, all this technology is here so we can whisper. Can you hear me up there? So fix the console. We can still have this kind of conversation, can we not?"

Earlier in the show, in a rare performance, Bono sings "Hear Us Coming..." toward the end of "One". This extra verse hadn't been performed in about 5 years, since the Experience + Innocence Tour. Later in the concert, Bono snippets a bit of "Shape of You" by Ed Sheeran after spotting the English singer-songwriter in the crowd. A snippet of Bruce Springsteen's "The Promised Land" is also sung during "I Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For".