Why would he need that during a live performance?
To stay cued up with the visual effects and lighting.
If the question is in reference to the Lost Not Forgotten video posted a page back, he'd need the laptop because it was at a clinic and the rest of the band wasn't there. The laptop (or it actually looks kinda like a tablet or at least a touch screen of some sort) would be playing the audio file of the rest of the band.
There are various ways to do this with various programs, the simplest way it to pan the click track all the way to one side of the audio file, pan the band to the other side and split the audio signal coming out of the computer into two different channels on his little mixer he has with him. The click channel is for his ears only and the band channel gets pushed out to the front of house.
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