December 2, 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. Drive My Car - 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 - Paint It Black
7. Who's Gonna Ride Your Wild Horses
8. Tryin' to Throw Your Arms Around the World
9. All I Want Is You - Into the Mystic
10. Desire
11. When Love Comes to Town - Personal Jesus
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 - All You Need Is Love
21. With or Without You
22. Beautiful Day - Blackbird - Glorify

Remarks:

U2 perform the nineteenth 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.

With Martin Gore and manager Jonathan Kessler from Depeche Mode in attendance, and having played in Las Vegas the night before at T-Mobile Arena with David Gahan of Depeche Mode, Bono snippets a bit of "Personal Jesus" toward the end of "When Love Comes to Town". It's the first time Bono has excerpted any Depeche Mode song live in concert. Here is what Bono sings: "Your own personal Jesus, someone to hear your prayers, someone who cares. Your own personal Jesus, someone who's always there."

Prior to all of that, Bono introduces "When Love Comes to Town": "Now have you taken a road trip to get here? Trains or planes? This band has spent a lot of time on buses, trains, and planes. Our whole life has been a bit of a road trip. I'm thinking about one in particular. In the eighties, we went to Memphis as a kind of a pilgrimage to Sun Studios to where Elvis recorded 'Mystery Train.' Very special. Ya know, there's another two kings I associate with the city of Memphis. Dr. King who was slain there April 4th, 1968. Boy, do we need him now in the world! Dr. King. I also think of B.B. King. Now, though he grew up making trouble around Beale Street in Memphis, I don't know if you know, but he lived and died in this city of Las Vegas. So we give it up for B.B. King together at the Sphere in Las Vegas. I feel like we were only children when we sat at the foot of this master, ya know? We thought we were writing him a song, but in truth just by being in the room, he was writing us."