September 30, 2023 - Las Vegas, Nevada, USA - Sphere at The Venetian Resort

Photograph: Rich Fury

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 - Love Me Tender
6. Until the End of the World - Non, je ne regrette rien
7. Who's Gonna Ride Your Wild Horses
8. Tryin' to Throw Your Arms Around the World
9. All I Want Is You (Songs of Surrender Mix) - Walk on the Wild Side
10. Desire
11. Angel of Harlem
12. Love Rescue Me
13. So Cruel
14. Acrobat
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 - Nothing Compares 2 U
22. Beautiful Day - What a Wonderful World

Remarks:

U2 perform the second 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. Pauli The PSM's set begins at around 7:44 PM and lasts a little over an hour.

After a bit of a late start, U2 take to the stage at around 9:12 PM. Tonight's setlist is a carbon copy of last night's show that kicked off U2's Las Vegas residency. A few variations at this concert include different snippets sung by Bono including: Edith Piaf's "Non, je ne regrette rien" (during "Until the End of the World"), "I Feel Love" from Donna Summer (towards the end of "Mysterious Ways"), "Walk on the Wild Side" by Lou Reed (after "All I Want Is You"), Sinéad O'Connor's "Nothing Compares 2 U" (during "With or Without You"), and "What a Wonderful World" by Louis Armstrong (after "Beautiful Day").

One notable moment occurs about one minute into "Vertigo" when a veteran stage crasher named Amp Bains, a physician from NYC, is transported up to the stage via a motorized platform. Dressed in a red beanie and green t-shirt, the longtime fan sings and dances with Bono and spends about 90 seconds on the stage. At the end of "With or Without You", Bono looks up into the rafters before walking up to the mic and saying: "Amen. Thank you for coming to see us play the Sphere. Edge, Adam, myself want to thank Bram van den Berg standing in for Larry Mullen." Afterwards, the quartet give each other hugs and clap along with the cheering fans.