Apple Music Hall’s 600 Seat Spatial Stage Opens at Battersea Power Station

Battersea Power Station has loomed over the Thames since Giles Gilbert Scott finished the last of its brick towers in 1955, a coal plant so large it later sat empty for decades and still owes half its fame to the inflatable pig Pink Floyd parked between the chimneys for the 1977 Animals sleeve. Apple already keeps its its UK headquarters and a store inside the redeveloped complex. On September 28, 2026 the company adds Apple Music Hall, a 600-seat room built to stage a concert, lock a Spatial Audio mix, and send a multicamera feed around the world from the same night.

Six hundred seats seems modest until you step inside the room. Every row is only a few feet from a massive 38-foot stage that can swivel around to face the audience or swing wide for an in-the-round performance. The heritage brickwork is still visible in all public locations. You’ve got lit art deco arches and bronze railings that pay homage to the station’s historic oriel windows, and then there’s that enormous glass wall overlooking the concourse, the river, and everything, so the old industrial shell never really goes away. The fit-out was done by Apple’s in-house designers, who combined brick and bronze with pro audio gear often found in large arenas.

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With 48 speakers stretched around the room, a live event can be mixed in Spatial Audio rather than traditional stereo sound. Behind the stage, they have two fully professional recording and mixing facilities, designed to capture a multitrack mix during the concert and polish it afterward. Sixteen or more cameras, including a slew of iPhones running alongside high-end broadcast equipment, stream into a separate control room, allowing them to edit a concert film without the need for a second site. Fans who can’t make it to London will be able to watch the show live online that nite.

The first week kicks off with Elton John on September 28, followed by Baby Keem on October 2, Skye Newman, Troye Sivan, Arlo Parks, Burna Boy, Chase & Status, and Charli XCX on December 2. Booking is in the hands of Communion ONE. Oliver Schusser, Apple’s vice president of Apple Music and worldwide content, made a point of connecting the hall to a line that dates back to the old iPod and, of course, the iTunes Festival. Zane Lowe, Apple Music’s global creative director, explained that the room is simply another method to bring artists and listeners together and then share the joy.

Tickets for the live events will be available through the Apple Music Hall website. The building itself already has shops, offices, and a large Apple Store. This one chamber is just another task for the ancient power station: hold a crowd, record the show, and somehow get that performance past the chimney pots.
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