
Photograph: Ross Stewart
Opening Act(s): Pauli "The PSM" Lovejoy
Setlist:
- Zoo Station
- Drive My Car - The Fly
- Even Better Than the Real Thing
- Mysterious Ways - I Feel Love
- One - Love Me Tender
- Until the End of the World - Paint It Black
- Who's Gonna Ride Your Wild Horses
- Tryin' to Throw Your Arms Around the World
- City of Blinding Lights
- Pride (In the Name of Love)
- I Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For - Movin' on Up
- Christmas (Baby, Please Come Home)
- Acrobat
- So Cruel
- Ultraviolet (Light My Way)
- Love Is Blindness - Viva Las Vegas Encore(s):
- Elevation - My Way
- Atomic City
- Vertigo
- Moment of Surrender - Where the Streets Have No Name
- With or Without You
- Beautiful Day - Blackbird
Remarks:
U2 perform the twenty fourth 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 show sees the first performance in 36 years of "Christmas (Baby, Please Come Home)". Last performed on December 20, 1987 at Sun Devil Stadium in Tempe, AZ, this is only the second time in history the song is played at a U2 concert. Over the years, Bono had performed the song busking on Grafton Street in Dublin around Christmastime, but this was a rare exception of Darlene Love's 1963 song (written by Jeff Barry, Ellie Greenwich, and Phil Spector). Also played tonight is "City of Blinding Lights", a song that hadn't been performed by the band since November 13, 2018 in Berlin.

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