Saturday, September 30, 2023

U2 brings iconic songs to the Sphere Las Vegas

https://www.usatoday.com/story/entertainment/music/2023/09/30/sphere-las-vegas-u2-opening-night-review/71008238007/

Just some old U2 music from the 1990s? Not exactly, it's an echo of Achtung Baby and ZOO TV in 2023 when a lot more people have become accustomed to smartphones and tablets, VR and AR...

 https://www.theguardian.com/music/2023/sep/30/u2-review-an-utterly-astonishing-admirably-raw-vegas-extravaganza

The ZOO TV tour in the early 1990s was meant for stadium environments of 50K to 100 thousand people. The Sphere is only around 20 thousand at best, so it's more like an Imax arena thing.

https://www.youtube.com/@U2official/videos