No Doubt<\/a>\u2018s scrappy early years to its rise as a global phenomenon. <\/p>\n\n\tThe performance was the culmination of discussions that firmed up in September 2025, when the band agreed to a residency and set off on a sprint to assemble a four-act spectacle that captured the grit and grind of the group\u2019s ascent. \u201cEvery waking moment over the past eight months was about this show,\u201d he says. \u201cSo when you\u2019re finally doing the first show, it\u2019s the culmination of all this work and incredibly talented people that we got to work with. You\u2019re about to share it with the world. And it\u2019s overwhelming. You can\u2019t really grasp how time went by because those eight months went so fast, and we were so busy. It was just joyous.\u201d<\/p>\n
\n\tFor No Doubt, the Sphere residency comes in the wake of a long period of relative dormancy. The SoCal band last put out an album in 2012 (\u201cPush and Shove\u201d), and performances have been generally sporadic since, save for some festival dates over the years. But it was with the quartet\u2019s pair of Coachella sets in 2024 that the group reaffirmed its standing as one of pop\u2019s most enduring touchstones, a band that had cross-generational appeal with the same charisma and spark they\u2019ve shown since forming in 1986.<\/p>\n
\n\tFollowing No Doubt\u2019s inaugural Sphere performance, Kanal explains why they framed the show as a love letter to their journey as a band, why they didn\u2019t tour after their Coachella shows and, of course, whether they\u2019ll ever head back to the studio to record new music.<\/p>\n
\n\t\tEight months is pretty quick to put this together. How did you approach assembling it \u2014\u00a0was it idea first, execution next?\t<\/h5>\n
\n\tFirst of all, eight months is what we were told was the bare minimum of putting this together. So we knew we had our work cut out for us. But we were really fortunate to work with Baz Halpin and his team at Silent House Productions. We\u2019ve worked with Baz before, he did our 2009 tour, and Baz has already done a few shows at the Sphere, so he\u2019s familiar with the venue. That helped start the process. But one of the big differences about putting this show together versus even Coachella a couple of years ago is that you have to decide on a set list months ago. And that\u2019s a weird thing because usually you can mix it up. You don\u2019t really have that opportunity [here] because so much of the content has to be created months ago. So that was a big difference.<\/p>\n
\n\t\tArtists tend to go to Vegas for the greatest hits show. That was partly what this was, but the other part was deeper cuts, fan favorites. Obviously, the show is an ode to No Doubt\u2019s journey, but why did you take that approach?\t<\/h5>\n
\n\tI mean, that\u2019s exactly what it was. After going back and forth on what this show is going to be, it ended up being a trip, taking people on the journey of our band. That\u2019s what we wanted it to be, a culmination of everything that we\u2019ve worked on. It just came down to that. And once we knew that was the gist of what we were putting together, it all started falling into place. And it was Baz\u2019s idea to separate the show into four acts and then do the interstitials where we\u2019re explaining things along the way.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\n\tLook, here\u2019s the thing. We\u2019ve been a band for a long time. We took almost a decade off from playing and doing anything together between the last shows in 2015 and then Coachella in 2024. But we\u2019ve done a lot as a band. So the things that get us collectively excited the most are new things and challenges. And that\u2019s what this was. We wanted to dig a little deeper and do some tracks that people weren\u2019t expecting to hear. It was also, how do you tell the story, and what songs do all four of us want to play? So there are all these different filters that songs need to go through to get to the final setlist.<\/p>\n
\n\t\tThe Sphere is so overwhelming, and the audience\u2019s eye is mainly drawn to the visuals on the screens because they\u2019re towering. So when you\u2019re planning the show, are you conscious of the fact that all eyes are going to be on the screens for a lot of it as opposed to the band playing live?\u00a0\t<\/h5>\n
\n\tAbsolutely. I\u2019ve seen shows at the Sphere and sometimes you get so involved in watching the content that you actually forget there\u2019s a live artist playing on the stage. It\u2019s a tricky thing to find that balance. And I feel like we did. We tried to thread that needle and find that balance, so you come away getting the full Sphere experience. But at the same time, you don\u2019t miss the fact that you\u2019re seeing No Doubt live, which for a lot of people is the most important thing.<\/p>\n
\n\t\tThe show is strung along by archival content. Even when you walk in, the screen is covered in fliers of shows from 1987 and 1989, and the video vignettes shown throughout the performance were early footage. How much archival digging was done for this?\t<\/h5>\n
\n\tLet me give full credit to our friend Eric Keyes, who has been with us since the beginning. He\u2019s the band\u2019s documentarian and archivist. He has so much footage and is so generous with his time, putting all this stuff together for us. With the Vibee experience, [an immersive pop-up at the Venetian\u2019s Summit Showroom], he put together four separate video packages. We did a nod to Fender\u2019s Ballroom, which is a venue we used to play in Long Beach in \u201987 and \u201988. And then if you go to the Beacon Street House, there\u2019s a screen that shows our van tours in 1992, and there\u2019s also a big projection screen that shows behind-the-scenes stuff. And then there\u2019s a screen in another part of the exhibit that shows more later-day footage. And so Eric was the person who put that stuff together for us. He\u2019s become such an important part of our story. You can literally go, \u201cEric, what was the time when this happened outside of the van?\u201d And he goes, \u201cOh yeah, let me go find that for you.\u201d We\u2019re so fortunate to have this great friend as part of this, putting this creative content together.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\n\t\tOne of the reasons fans have invested in No Doubt is because you share such personal experiences in your music and visuals. You make it part of the narrative. What\u2019s it like for you to still be looking back on these trials and tribulations that you\u2019ve gone through and putting them front and center time and again?\u00a0\t<\/h5>\n
\n\tThere\u2019s always been this underlying feeling of not trying to take ourselves too seriously. I was thinking, when we were doing interviews, you\u2019re doing like 10 a day, right? You\u2019re on press junkets or you\u2019re on tour and you\u2019ve got hours and hours of interviews before we even go to sound check. You almost get giddy, like you\u2019re jetlagged in some places and saying the same shit over and over again. We would just take it to the next level. We would do absurd things and say silly things to entertain each other. And that\u2019s kind of our dynamic internally. Like, don\u2019t take things too seriously. So we\u2019re just doing what we\u2019ve always done. We\u2019re wearing our hearts on our sleeves and we\u2019re sharing with people the trials and tribulations and victories and joys that we\u2019ve experienced together for almost four decades now.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\n\t\tA lot of people said that a tour right after Coachella would have made the most sense, but you held off until this residency.\t<\/h5>\n
\n\tThose Coachella shows were really monumental for us. We didn\u2019t know what to expect. It\u2019s a young audience, and we didn\u2019t know how they were going to react to us. And it was just overwhelmingly, incredibly joyous and positive and beautiful. They became super important milestones in the history of the band. And then there were discussions about what to do next. And just like with any family, there are lots of different opinions. It wasn\u2019t until the Sphere conversation started that all four of us were on the same page. Just like with everything, it\u2019s got to be all four of us agreeing to do it. As you can imagine, there are very strong opinions in our band. And so this was the thing that happened. We take it day by day. We don\u2019t try to plan too far in the future. If there\u2019s anything we\u2019ve learned, it\u2019s that we don\u2019t know what\u2019s going to happen next.<\/p>\n
\n\t\tPeople were anticipating a new song in the mix at the Sphere show. Was there a conversation about putting a new song in or recording new music for it?\t<\/h5>\n
\n\tThat conversation always comes back to, are we on the same page about what we\u2019d want to do? And I think until we get to that place, we would hold off until we\u2019re all on the same creative page about creating new music. I don\u2019t want to say it\u2019ll never happen, but I think for us, we\u2019d like to keep the bar high. So if there was ever a conversation about new music, we\u2019d have to all be in agreement on how we\u2019re approaching that. And that hasn\u2019t been part of this conversation yet. Right now, it\u2019s obviously focusing on the Sphere shows.<\/p>\n
\n\t\tAre there any plans to factor in a surprise during the Sphere shows, maybe put in a different song here and there, or is this pretty static?\t<\/h5>\n
\n\tThe way the technology works at the Sphere, you have to stick to it. I think there\u2019s gonna be surprises as far as how we perform songs and what we do in between songs. But right now we\u2019re just focusing on making sure the show goes off just smoothly.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\n\t\tThe show is about legacy, if you want to put it in a metaphorical, bigger picture way. How much does No Doubt\u2019s legacy weigh on your mind these days?\u00a0\t<\/h5>\n
\n\tIt weighs on me a lot because it\u2019s been every part of my waking life for the last eight months. When I say eight months, I mean eight months from when we decided we\u2019re doing it. There was a good year of discussions before that. So right now, No Doubt is everything that I\u2019m eating, living and breathing. It\u2019s a beautiful place to be. My kids are coming in a few hours [for the second show]. I\u2019m so excited. When they show up here at the hotel, we\u2019re all going to go over together and their minds are going to be blown. I have a 15-year-old daughter and a 12-year-old daughter. There\u2019s something so rewarding about watching them experience something for the first time, something so big and joyous and beautiful and that\u2019s what I\u2019m excited about today. And my mom and dad came [to the first night], my dad\u2019s in 91. He\u2019s been coming to the show since \u201987. So he was there, they\u2019re coming again tonight. That stuff is just next level.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
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