{"id":290010,"date":"2023-09-17T10:02:28","date_gmt":"2023-09-17T15:02:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.casino.org\/news\/?p=290010"},"modified":"2023-09-18T15:45:19","modified_gmt":"2023-09-18T20:45:19","slug":"u2-returns-to-las-vegas-to-shoot-new-video","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.casino.org\/news\/u2-returns-to-las-vegas-to-shoot-new-video\/","title":{"rendered":"U2 Returns to Downtown Las Vegas to Shoot New Video"},"content":{"rendered":"

U2 shot a video early Sunday morning in downtown Las Vegas. The Irish band filmed itself performing a new song, \u201cAtomic City,\u201d from a makeshift stage on a flatbed truck, starting at around midnight.<\/p>\n

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U2 films its “Atomic City” video in front of the Plaza Hotel in the wee hours of Sunday morning, above. (Image: Antonio Llapur\/Facebook)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The Irish rock band is in town rehearsing for its \u201cU2: UV Achtung Baby Live\u201d residency at the MSG Sphere, whose kickoff also opens the $2.3 billion venue on Sept. 29.<\/a><\/p>\n

\u201cThis is a new song written about you,\u201d singer Bono explained to the VIP crowd gathered under the Fremont Street Experience canopy. He described the song as “a rock n’ roll 45 in the tradition of late-’70s post-punk.”<\/p>\n

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\u201cAtomic City\u201d celebrates the history of Las Vegas (\u201cSinatra swings, a choir sings\u201d) while at the same time pandering to some of its more popular (and dated) stereotypes, such as the stage it provides to has-beens (\u201cCome all you stars falling out of the sky\u201d) and its popularity among extraterrestrials (\u201cAll UFOs come on your way home\u201d).<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

Bono sang along live to a playback of the song, which U2 recorded last week in L.A. It is expected to feature in its Sphere setlist, most of which is already taken up by a track-for-track run-through of the band’s 1991 album, Achtung Baby.<\/em><\/p>\n

Check out a video posted by YouTuber mfb1962<\/a>.<\/p>\n