Within a giant, $2.3BN ball in the Nevada desert, U2 reinvent the rock concert, again. Is this the end of the world tour as we knew it, or even better than the real thing?
“What a fancy pad,” says Bono, gazing around him from behind the old bug-eyed “Fly” shades he’d put on, with no little theatricality, a couple of songs earlier. “Look at all this… stuff!” the singer exclaims as he stands on a stage modelled on an artwork designed by Brian Eno . Packed below and above the 63-year-old in a well-behaved moshpit and steeply raked bleachers, 18,000 fans — tickets currently available from $400.
” Even though the singer now admits, in U2:UV’s coffee-table tour-programme, that he said that “because it was a mouthy, headline-grabbing singer thing to say,” the band agreed the idea was worth exploring.As Clayton puts it: “What was interesting about that was, after 50 years of entertainment and concert revenues being generated, finally someone said: ‘Let’s make a building where music sounds good. Where we’re not in a sports arena that isn’t designed for music.
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