The Las Vegas residency is an excellent option for the modern superstar looking to make touring money without actually touring: no traveling necessary, a consistent schedule, and a regular stream of eager attendees visiting Sin City.
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U2 is familiar with rocking out in major sporting arenas and stadiums, but the legendary band will soon hit the stage to create a new immersive concert experience inside a high-tech, globe-shaped venue in Las Vegas. Live Nation and Sphere Entertainment announced Monday the dates for U2’s upcoming "U2:UV Achtung Baby Live At Sphere" shows starting Sept. 29.The rock band’s special five-night run of shows will be held until Oct.
8 at The Venetian’s Sphere with a state-of-the-art audio and visual system designed for each concertgoer. "This is a venue designed for entertainment, not sports," said U2 guitarist The Edge in a recent interview. He first learned about the cutting-edge venue after lead singer Bono sent him a link about the concept.
He said the screen is 20 times bigger than the one during the band’s Joshua Tree tour in 2019 — the last time U2 performed live in a concert setting. "Sports is a simple formula. You want to see the action," he continued.
"But no one really sits down when they’re designing one of these sports arenas and thinks about sound.That’s way, way down on their list of priorities. But in this venue, it’s one of the first things they thought about." The massive spherical venue will have 17,500 seats with a scalable capacity of nearly 20,000 guests. Along with high resolution LED screens that wrap halfway around the audience, the venue is also equipped with thousands of speakers that will deliver a "crystal-clear" multi-layered audio system for every seat inside.
The Las Vegas residency is an excellent option for the modern superstar looking to make touring money without actually touring: no traveling necessary, a consistent schedule, and a regular stream of eager attendees visiting Sin City.
Rod Stewart has given fans an insight into his Las Vegas dressing room and showed off his huge clothing collection.
Usher and Chris Brown played the same music festival, on the same stage, just hours after allegedly getting into a physical confrontation on Saturday.
A heated argument between Usher and Chris Brown allegedly turned violent early Saturday morning, resulting in the “U Got It Bad” singer ending up with a bloody nose and bruised ribs.
Usher and Chris Brown allegedly turned violent early Saturday morning, resulting in the «U Got It Bad» singer ending up with a bloody nose and bruised ribs.TMZ on Saturday published a video purporting to show the war of words between the singers that led to the alleged violent encounter. ET has reached out to reps for Brown and Usher for comment.The outlet reported, citing the video and witnesses at the event, that Brown had approached Teyana Taylor and became miffed when she ignored him.
U2 has done it all.They’ve been inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, won 22 Grammy Awards and netted six Billboard Top 10 hits.Now, they’re doing something brand new.From Sept. 29 through Nov.
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Changing her tune. Kim Kardashian sparked speculation that she’s still feuding with sister Kourtney Kardashian when she gushed over attending Chris Appleton and Lukas Gage’s Las Vegas nuptials.
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Zendaya and Tom Holland shared a rare moment of PDA and fun this week! The couple attended Usher's Las Vegas residency show, jamming out to the 44-year-old performer's hits in the audience at The Colosseum.Zendaya documented part of the fun on her Instagram Stories, singing along to «Confessions Part II,» as she panned the camera over to Holland and then to some other friends.For the outing, Zendaya wore a tan halter dress, hoop earrings and oversized glasses. Holland, 26, rocked a green hoodie.Fans also filmed the couple hugging one another in the stands as they enjoyed the show.A post shared by tomdayaahub (@tomdayaahub)A post shared by ♡ Happy and in Love very ♡ (@lovefortomdayax_)The jet-setting pair have been traveling all over the world together, spending time in London, England, Mumbai, India, New York City, andParis, France, in recent months.Zendaya was in Vegas for the CinemaCon Big Screen Achievement Awards, which she attended on Thursday.
Chris Willman Senior Music Writer and Chief Music Critic In the four days since announcing U2’s first dates for a limited engagement at the massive new Sphere in Las Vegas, the number of shows has incrementally expanded. The mere five gigs announced on Monday got stretched to a dozen shows as of Wednesday, and now, come Thursday morning, five more were added, to make it 17 concerts going on sale this week. But if you must see this show, don’t sleep on these 17 dates under the assumption that the band will just keep adding more extensions. The extension through Nov. 4 that was announced Thursday could well represent the end of the run, since, in an earlier interview with Variety, the Edge said the band would likely be limited to six weeks in the venue — and that’s just how far these new dates take it.
Chris Willman Senior Music Writer and Chief Music Critic U2 has announced the first dates this fall for a series of shows being billed as “U2:UV Achtung Baby Live at Sphere” — just five nights in late September and early October, for now, although the possibility of more shows being added seems more like a probability. The ambition and logistical planning of creating a unique show for Sphere, the world’s most technologically advanced space for music, certainly ultimately augurs for a longer run, even if U2 has studiously been avoiding sticking around Vegas quite long enough to merit the avoided word “residency.” U2’s guitarist, the Edge, got on a Zoom with Variety last week to discuss the enormously ambitious run of shows, following a demonstration of the design and technology for Sphere that was held for a handful of media representatives at a scale model of the building in Burbank. Although the concerts will be themed around the 1991 “Achtung Baby” album (with the “UV” in the show’s title referring to the album track “Ultraviolet”), the Edge said that Sphere itself was the reason for conceiving the new show. “When we found out about what this venue was really offering us creatively, we kind of saw it as a throwdown … as a challenge,” he says.
Anna Tingley If you purchase an independently reviewed product or service through a link on our website, Variety may receive an affiliate commission. Erika Jayne is officially headed to Sin City for her very own Las Vegas residency, a dream the reality star has had since childhood. Titled Bet it All on Blonde, the residency will take place at House of Blues Las Vegas and will kick off on Aug.