Apple Music Hall London Opens at Battersea Power Station

Apple Music Hall London is preparing to open its doors at Battersea Power Station, giving the capital a new 600-capacity concert venue built specifically to combine intimate live performances with professional recording and global broadcasting.

The new venue officially opens on 28 September inside the landmark Battersea building, which is also home to Apple’s UK headquarters. No opening artists have yet been announced, but fans can already register for future show and ticket announcements.

This is not simply another small London concert room.

Apple has designed the venue so an artist can perform a show, record professional multitrack audio, create a Spatial Audio mix and capture broadcast-quality multicamera video, all within the same building. Performances will also be capable of being livestreamed to audiences around the world.

Apple Music Hall London holds just 600 people

Perhaps the most interesting part of Apple Music Hall London is its relatively small capacity.

The venue accommodates around 600 people, creating a much more intimate environment than London’s arenas while still offering production technology associated with much larger tours.

Its stage is 38 feet wide and can be reconfigured depending on the artist, including conventional front-facing performances and more immersive layouts.

Around the audience is a 48-speaker sound system designed to reproduce performances in Spatial Audio.

That means Apple is attempting to combine two things that do not always come together: the atmosphere of a small gig and the technical infrastructure of a major recorded production.

A concert can become a finished recording

Behind the performance space are two dedicated recording and mixing studios.

Apple says performances can be captured as multitrack recordings and mixed in Spatial Audio either during or after the show.

The venue is also wired for at least 16 cameras, feeding into a purpose-built broadcast control room. iPhones can also be incorporated alongside conventional broadcast cameras.

In practical terms, an artist could perform one concert and leave with the material required for a live recording, online performance, promotional footage and global broadcast.

That makes the venue as much a content-production facility as a concert hall.

Shows will be available beyond London

The 600-person capacity naturally means tickets for major artists could become extremely difficult to obtain.

Apple’s answer is livestreaming.

The company says performances from Apple Music Hall will be broadcast globally, allowing fans outside London to watch selected one-off shows remotely.

Exactly how individual performances will be distributed, which artists will appear and how tickets will be allocated have not yet been detailed.

The official Apple Music Hall website currently invites fans to register for show and on-sale announcements rather than listing an opening programme.

Apple Music Radio also moves to Battersea

The project extends beyond live gigs.

Apple has also built new Apple Music Radio studios at Battersea Power Station, and says its London-based presenters and programmes will now broadcast from the site.

That brings Apple’s radio operation and live performance facilities together in the same location.

Zane Lowe, Apple Music’s global creative director and lead anchor for Apple Music 1, said the venue was designed to create another way for artists and audiences to connect.

Apple has previously had a substantial presence in UK live music through the iTunes Festival, later renamed the Apple Music Festival, which ran in London until 2016.

The new hall represents a different model. Instead of temporarily taking over an existing venue, Apple now has a permanent performance space of its own.

Battersea becomes part of Apple’s music operation

The location itself has been incorporated into the design.

Apple says Apple Music Hall London uses heritage brickwork, fluted arches and bronze balconies inspired by Battersea Power Station, alongside a large glass wall overlooking the building and the River Thames.

The result is a venue that Apple appears to see as more than somewhere to stage occasional promotional concerts.

With recording studios, radio facilities, Spatial Audio, multicamera production and global livestreaming built into one 600-capacity room, the company is effectively creating a permanent bridge between a live gig and everything that can be produced from it afterwards.

Apple Music Hall officially opens at Battersea Power Station on 28 September 2026.

The first artists are still to be revealed.

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