But it is heady, especially in one of the first numbers, “Even Better Than the Real Thing,” which has a flow of pop and film imagery that includes a lot of shots of Elvis Presley and Frank Sinatra, embedded in an ornate, almost Hindu-temple-like tapestry. None of these visuals are ever in much of a rush, with the exception of one setpiece lifted from the original Zoo TV tour that is actually about overload, with printed slogans passing across the big screens faster than you can take them in.Īpart from that one bit, Williams knows that your brain has to take a while to take anything, so you never feel like you have to close your eyes to give yourself a break. He is the creative director of 40 years standing now for U2, and he’s outdone himself with a series of settings - some directed by him, some outsourced to amazing digital artists like Es Devlin - that blow your mind, then give it a helpful rest, and then return for further sensory overload at the end. ![]() It was a rhetorical question, but the answer is, Willie Williams did. “Who spiked your drink?” Bono asked the crowd early on. These surfaces feels like they should be measured in square miles, not square feet, but U2 does not feel dwarfed in their glow. ![]() It is, at its giddy and delirious best, a slide down the surface of things, to recall a prophetic phrase that might have foretold the very existence of Sphere, a venue that invites you to spend a half-hour at a time thinking or talking just about its interior and exterior surfaces, including a ceiling that reaches to 366 feet tall. That hasn’t changed now that the band is playing in the round… really, really, really, really in the round.īut obviously it’s the audacious hugeness, not the Let’s Get Small interludes, that “U2:UV” will most be remembered for. It’s a cliche to say that U2 can achieve intimacy in the midst of the most ridiculous extravaganza, but nobody in rock history has done a better job of taking visual and aesthetic dynamics to extremes. And these parts of the set work wonders, too… although even then, there is an extreme cleverness to the utter simplicity of the stage they’re on that almost seems like its own special effect. At times, the overpowering overhead visuals are either turned off completely or reduced to a simple single (or quadruple) live image hovering gently and unobtrusively over the stage. Wanting to have it both ways has worked for the group before, and it works again, in this setting. Tickets to experience In This Moment's show at the Wiltern are now available.This being U2, they would also like to be seen as an overgrown club band at their core, as the same time they are producing the rock blockbuster to end all blockbusters. ![]() Lastly, femme fatale vixens Cherry Bombs will amp up the crowd with their out-of-this-world stunts and jaw-dropping tricks. The show also features the British rock collective Sleep Token, which is currently promoting their 2021 studio release, This Place Will Become Your Tomb. Three years later, Nothing More dropped their highest charting single, “Go to War.” The song dominated the Mainstream Rock chart and earned the band two Grammy nods for Best Rock Performance and Best Rock Album. The song, spawned by the band’s self-titled fourth album, debuted at number 2 on the Mainstream Rock chart. The San Antonio, Texas natives, earned their first Grammy nomination for their 2014 hit single, “This is the Time (Ballast). Nothing More joins In This Moment on this long-awaited tour. To commemorate the tenth anniversary of Blood, In This Moment will be releasing the EP, Blood 1983 during the summer. “Blood” became the band’s most successful single, while the album became their best-selling release and earned them a gold certification in the U.S. Meanwhile, the album’s title track performed well in five Billboard categories, including the Mainstream Rock charts. ![]() Blood dominated Billboard's Top Hard Rock Albums, landed at number 15 on the Billboard 200, and number 5 on the Top Rock Albums, Top Alternative Albums, and Top Independent Albums charts. The album became their highest charting studio release to date. In This Moment’s fourth album, Blood was released in August 2012.
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