Dead & Company to play 18 concerts at Las Vegas Sphere

The Las Vegas Sphere will host 18 concerts by American rock band Dead & Company in May and June.

The residency – which will comprise three shows each weekend between May 16 and June 22 – will utilise the Sphere’s technology to offer “never-before-seen visual storytelling, providing fans with the ultimate connection to the music through innovative and immersive shows”.

Tickets will start at $145, with each week’s concerts featuring a unique set-list.
 
The shows will utilise Sphere’s next-generation technologies, including the Exosphere – 54,000 sq metres of fully programmable LED lighting that wraps up, over and around the audience to create a fully immersive visual environment. The Sphere’s outer skin consists of about 1.2 million LED pucks, each of which contains 48 LED diodes capable of displaying 256 million colours.

The venue also features the world’s “most advanced concert-grade audio system”. Sphere Immersive Sound, powered by HOLOPLOT, has been designed for the Sphere’s curved interior to provide individualised sound to each of the 18,600 seats.

The system comprises about 1,600 permanently installed and 300 mobile Holoplot X1 Matrix Array loudspeaker modules, with 167,000 individually amplified speaker drivers.

Irish rock band U2 opened the Sphere in October U2 with a 25-date U2:UV Achtung Baby Live residency.

Since their debut in 2015, Dead & Company have completed 10 tours, playing to more than four million fans across 235 shows. The band’s line-up includes three former members of the Grateful Dead.