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Now I've seen loads of vids from the outside and it looks cool in a 'perfect for LA' way. I had no idea the inside was the same though! 😳
Then reels of U2 at the Sphere just started popping up on my Insta feed - I know its U2, so yeah sorry(!), but I bet this is an awesome experience...
Well that was amazing. Thank you for sharing. Much better with the sound off as the vocals cause much pain but the tech is just fantastic.
It's bloody awesome isn't it. I suppose making content for it is a wee bit like VR? Except you have to display it all, all the time, instead of just the bit that you're looking at. Reminds me a bit of the LED screen rig they used for filming the Mandalorian
Actually feel a bit bad for Bono though. Was it an off night, or is his voice just blown?
That the one in vegas that Daniel ‘Ashville’ went to on his Nat Geo channel show?
I bet Call of Duty is good on it
Actually feel a bit bad for Bono though. Was it an off night, or is his voice just blown?
I think age and a lifetime of performance has caught up. He's not singing like he used to be able to.
I might be wrong but i think there are plans for one of these in London - whether it gets the go ahead remains to be seen though as there was a lot of objections in terms of light pollution to local residents
Impressive stuff, but now my YouTube feed is spammed with U2 🤦♂️
I might be wrong but i think there are plans for one of these in London – whether it gets the go ahead remains to be seen though as there was a lot of objections in terms of light pollution to local residents
Complaining about light pollution in London? 😳🤣
London never gets turned off!
My mates company is involved in it. They've just broken ground at the Olympic Park
Actually feel a bit bad for Bono though. Was it an off night, or is his voice just blown?
I think age and a lifetime of performance has caught up. He’s not singing like he used to be able to.
I saw U2 in '87 his voice went on stage, fair play to him he finished the gig, but yeah forty odd years of performing is going to take it's toll.
As for the Sphere 🤯
Las Vegas, isn’t it?
Hope so, or I'm going to have a really long walk back to my hotel in March.
Las Vegas, isn’t it?
Of course it is - doh!! 🤦♂️ 🤦♂️ 🤦♂️
Looks amazing, similar capacity to Manchester Arena, which is the biggest indoor venue in the UK, I was there the other night and I can’t really see me properly enjoying or getting into a show from seats so far away, even with the big screens and huge animatronics(we were standing down at the front so no issue). The almost VR effect of the sphere looks like it mostly fixes that, I’d like to try it. Fair play to U2, they keep packing them in, I was a bit of a superfan in the eighties and went to loads of their gigs, but his voice is shot, I gave up on them live after the 1997 Pop tour, they played at Leeds Roundhay and Cast put on a miles better show as the support.
If it is just like VR though and you can’t get close to the band, why not save on travelling and just get a headset?
I was there the other night and I can’t really see me properly enjoying or getting into a show from seats so far away,
It's worse outdoors though.
I've been to a gig at the O2 and it's OK for a bop when stood up in the stands, but it's not the same as being down on the floor. Being up in the gods at the Emirates watching Muse was rubbish though, didn't help that it was mid summer so still daylight, and the stadium (which is famous for having no atmosphere anyway) was half empty. We could have just walked down to the pitch.
Down on the floor of the MEN is one of my favorite venues though. Massive festival sized crowd, but with the shear noise and volume of an indoor gig.
Emirates was good close up from the pitch in 2013 on the 2nd Law tour, and Huddersfield this summer too, I’m trying to avoid sitting for rock gigs while my legs allow. When it’s a big venue with a lot of staging and effects, even down the front means you miss some of the spectacle and the sound quality is definitely better from about twenty or thirty yards back than on the barrier, just a factor of where the high mounted speakers are pointing. I can skip my tanning session this week though after a thorough chargrilling from all the pyros.
U2 were playing on a very sparse stage, I must watch a few more videos to see how they handled equipment and other changes, though they don’t faff and change instruments every song like Muse.
Reminds me of the dome on the Simpsons movie
matt_outandabout
Full MemberI think age and a lifetime of performance has caught up. He’s not singing like he used to be able to.
Everyone gets old but... Does he not know? Some of that was like me at karaoke.
I saw them at Wembley in 2009 (360 tour I think) and it was the worst gig I think I've ever been to. The low energy of the band was only matched by the ambivalence of their fans at the point they shuffled out on stage and croaked-out their new single. I'd seen Muse there in 2007 and Foo Fighters there in 2008 - both of which (whether you are a fan or not) are amazing stadium bands, and made the U2 performance look very ordinary..... worse than that actually.
Muse would have been FAR better suited to the new venue - however, not sure they have quite the draw in the US as U2 do
I wonder who's going to get fired first by the venue for getting caught using the screen for.... errr.... "unauthorized content"?
If it is just like VR though and you can’t get close to the band, why not save on travelling and just get a headset?
"If you're over 40 and you often go to huge music festivals you may have found that they're actually not that fun."
Ron Lynch - Inventor
The one being proposed/built in London shouldn't be going ahead. It's ridiculous for anyone living near it, even in daylight it would be likely be stupidly distracting beaming in through windows. Hopefully the London one goes bust before it sees the light of day...
The one being proposed/built in London shouldn’t be going ahead. It’s ridiculous for anyone living near it, even in daylight it would be likely be stupidly distracting beaming in through windows. Hopefully the London one goes bust before it sees the light of day…
I remember a similar argument 25 years ago...
Off to the Arena 4 times in the next 4 months - two of which are on the floor standing. Back to see Madness again in December (saw them two years ago) and it's great to see all the 50 plus adults bopping away giving it some.