Filmed during their Sphere Las Vegas residency, U2 will release an “immersive” new concert movie.
In ‘V-U2’, the Irish rockers Bono, Adam Clayton, The Edge, and Larry Mullen Jr. provide their fans with an experience as “close as possible” to the shows they performed live at the revolutionary west coast entertainment venue.
In a statement about the forthcoming film, The Edge (born David Howell Evans), who directed the concert film alongside Morleigh Steinberg, said “The goal was to give the immersive moviegoers as close to the live U2:UV concert experience as possible – and then some.” “I’ve never seen a U2 show. I’m so relieved I caught a great one.”
In the trailer for ‘V-U2’, which will be exclusively screened at Sphere Las Vegas from September 5th, The Edge jokes: “After all these years, I get to see a U2 show.”
With a run that came to an end in March of this year, U2 put on 40 shows at the futuristic venue, and the iconic rockers made the final show special by performing a virtual duet of ‘Don’t Dream It’s Over’ with Crowded House star Neil Finn, after he emailed over vocals for them to use onstage.
Bono, the band’s frontman confirmed that U2 are big fans of the new version of the classic track, and they will attempt to record it, telling the audience:
“The other day we got a beautiful e-mail from Neil Finn, who wrote this bewilderingly beautiful song.” “Attached to the e-mail was a version of the song he said we could play whenever we wanted. It’s a new version that he did, and we’re going to try and record it.” “Neither party has spoken to our record label [about releasing this], so this might be the only recording that might ever exist. Please take your phones and send it to whoever loves freedom you know. Maybe send it to people that don’t [too]. There’s a few of them around.”
For the first time since 2016, U2 thrilled fans by playing their 1983 track ’40,’ revealing it had a special meaning for the final show of the residency, with Bono stating:
“It’s been 40 days and 40 nights in the desert. What’s a fellow with a messianic complex going to do? Here’s a song we wrote in 40 minutes. I opened up the sacred text of the Psalm of David. I just kind of read it out. That was the lyric.”
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