Gwen Stefani & No Doubt Leave No Orange Unturned for Night 1 of Las Vegas Sphere Residency: 7 Best Moments

Any of the touchstones you might associate with No Doubt — their Orange County upbringing, their Tragic Kingdom breakthrough, their skater-influenced style, their intraband-romance-fueled lyrics, their Jamaica-inspired recordings — were put on supersize display during the first show of their Las Vegas Sphere residency on Wednesday night (May 6). And at the front of it all was Gwen Stefani, who is officially the first female headliner of the state-of-the-art venue, following a string of classic rockers, dance producers, country stars and boy banders taking the stage since Sphere’s September 2023 opening.

With her powerful live vocals and command of the stage, Stefani — along with longtime bandmates bassist Tony Kanal, drummer Adrian Young and guitarist Tom Dumont — succeeded in remaining a focal point of the night, despite stiff competition from the floor-to-ceiling screens. But when you have generational hits like “Just a Girl” and “Don’t Speak” at the ready, you can always hold your own.

No Doubt leaned into that Tragic Kingdom era in the setlist — performing 10 of the 1995 album’s 14 tracks, which accounted for nearly half of the two-hour, 21-song concert — but they also deployed four songs apiece from their turn-of-the-millennium albums Return of Saturn (2000) and Rock Steady (2001). The setlist featured an unexpected string of ballads as well, starting with Tragic Kingdom‘s “The Climb” — which the band played for the first time since 1997 — bringing the tempo back a couple of songs later with their hit 2003 Talk Talk cover “It’s My Life.”

As the “ANAHEIM CALIFORNIA 1987” sign that greets concertgoers once they get inside the Sphere promises, this is a band nearly 40 years in the making that has an arsenal of hits — and now they have the mind-blowing visuals to match. Below, find Billboard‘s seven favorite moments from night 1 of No Doubt’s Sphere residency.