![]() ![]() ![]() Tickets start at $140, with “all-in” pricing, getting in line with Live Nation’s stated goal of nudging artists toward agreeing to put a singular price tag on tickets, fees included. “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. 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. 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. 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 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. ![]()
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