VEGAS MUSIC NEWS: Paul Gets Back to Vegas, Kiss Gets Back Together, Backstreet Experience Gets Delayed

• Macca to make a Vegas appearance in October
• Kiss kruises into town for fan club anniversary show in November
• BSB begins Sphere residency on Friday night

Sir Paul McCartney will make his Allegiant Stadium debut on October 4, a week after the former Beatle’s “Got Back 2025” tour debuts in Palm Springs.

This will be the 12th time Sir Paul has performed in Las Vegas. That includes eight solo concerts, one iHeart Radio Music Festival appearance in 2013, and two shows with the Beatles in August 1964.

The last time Macca, now 83, performed in Vegas was a two-night stand at T-Mobile Arena in 2019. On closing night, Steven Tyler, fresh from performing just 1,600 feet away at the Park MGM, joined Paul for a scream through “Helter Skelter” during the encore.

Tickets go on sale to the public at 10 am Friday, July 18, and presales start at 10 am Tuesday, July 15, at paulmccartneygotback.com.

Ticket resellers already have them available, and their prices range from $160 for nosebleed seats to $3,000 up close.

Kiss Your $$ Goodbye

Packages for its “Kiss Army Storms Vegas” fan gathering at Virgin Hotels Las Vegas on November 14-16 have been on sale since April from $999 to more than $3,000. (To be fair, all tickets include a three-night hotel stay.)

This week, since the show apparently had plenty of tickets left, the band announced that the event — celebrating the 50th anniversary of its fan club — would include the first Kiss live performance since its last official live performance in December 2023.

Gene Simmons and Paul Stanley, the band’s only remaining original members since 1982, will perform an unmasked acoustic set along with Tommy Thayer, who joined on lead guitar in 2002.

In addition, the event’s name has now been changed to “Kiss Kruise: Land-Locked in Vegas.” The cheapest available package, now $1,600, is on sale here.

Backstreet Backlog

The Backstreet Boys Terminal, the pop-up experience accompanying the reunited boy band’s Sphere residency, was supposed to open on Thursday but got delayed a day. No explanation for the delay was offered, only a “we appreciate your patience” from Vibee, the Vegas-based music experience company.

The Backstreets open their residency tonight.

This is now the fifth Sphere residency for which Vibee has put together an experience inside the same second-floor space at the Venetian. (So far, Phish’s was the only residency not to feature one.)

Though Vibee calls the new experience “one of kind,” it offers the same combination of memorabilia displays, recreations of historical places from the act’s history (in this case, a replica of the old MTV “Total Request Live” studio) and, of course, merch to buy at very high prices.