{"id":259338,"date":"2023-02-12T21:31:08","date_gmt":"2023-02-13T03:31:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.casino.org\/news\/?p=259338"},"modified":"2023-02-24T15:36:55","modified_gmt":"2023-02-24T21:36:55","slug":"vegas-music-roundup-u2-residency-beyonce-duran-duran-dinner-with-gene-simmons","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.casino.org\/news\/vegas-music-roundup-u2-residency-beyonce-duran-duran-dinner-with-gene-simmons\/","title":{"rendered":"VEGAS MUSIC ROUNDUP: U2 Confirms Residency, Beyonc\u00e9, Duran Duran, Dinner with Gene Simmons"},"content":{"rendered":"

U2<\/strong> waited until the Super Bowl to (finally) announce its residency at the MSG Sphere. As reported by Casino.org<\/em><\/a> back in July, the superstar Irish rock band will perform 12 shows at the $2.2B entertainment venue behind the Venetian. Its first Las Vegas residency won’t feature founding U2 drummer Larry Mullen, Jr., who requires neck and elbow surgery so badly, he already stated that he “won’t be performing live” in 2023<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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U2’s The Edge, Bono, and Adam Clayton will be performing their first Las Vegas residency \u2013 and their first shows without founding drummer Larry Mullen, Jr. \u2013 this fall at the brand new MSG Sphere. (Image: Wikipedia)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Drumming with the band will be Bram van den Berg, a virtually unknown musician from The Netherlands.<\/p>\n

Via a press statement released Sunday night from MSG, U2 members Bono, The Edge, and Adam Clayton said: \u201cIt’s going to take all we’ve got to approach the Sphere without our bandmate in the drum seat, but Larry has joined us in welcoming Bram van den Berg, who is a force in his own right.<\/p>\n

The Sphere show has been in the works for a long time,” U2’s statement continued. “We don\u2019t want to let people down, least of all our audience \u2026 Bottom line, U2 hasn\u2019t played live since December 2019 and we need to get back on stage and see the faces of our fans again.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

The band’s blink-and-you-missed-it Super Bowl commercial directed fans to the website u2xsphere.com,<\/em> from which they can sign up for a Verified Fan presale with Ticketmaster. The site also contains the promotional video below.<\/p>\n

The video depicts the Sphere as a spaceship landing in the Nevada desert, with U2 and a crowd of onlookers gawking at it. No mention is made of when residency will launch, other than “this fall.” However, the clip does provide a name to the residency, “U2:UV Achtung Baby Live at the Sphere,” thereby confirming previous reports that it will zero in on the band’s best-selling 1991 album.<\/p>\n

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