U2’s The Edge is opening up about his disappointment that bandmate Larry Mullen Jr. will not perform at the band’s Las Vegas residency.
Mullen will not join the band for their upcoming Las Vegas residency at the new MSG Sphere venue, due to surgery. Instead, 40-year-old Dutch drummer Bram van den Berg will fill in.
The Edge explained, “No one is more disappointed than us that Larry won’t be joining us in Vegas. We made a commitment. In the history of U2, you can count the shows we’ve missed on the fingers of one hand. The people who are going to miss Larry the most, I think, will be Bono, Adam and myself. It’ll be strange to turn around and not see him behind us after all these years. But the shows will be amazing.”
Premiering this fall, “U2:UV Achtung Baby Live at the Sphere” will mark the band’s first live show in four years and the second time in U2’s history that they’ve played a show without one of the four band members – Adam Clayton missed a single show during 1993’s Zoo TV tour.
The Edge also said the band has an unbreakable bond and fans don’t need to worry about them ever breaking up.