Apple's First Live Music Venue Opens in London, Built to Stream Shows Globally
Apple is opening its first live music venue, built to bring fans closer to artists performing arena-like shows.Apple Music Hall in London is housed in the same building as its UK headquarters. It's part of the recently converted Battersea Power Station, an iconic building along the River Thames, originally built between 1929 and 1955, and later redeveloped into a public space and offices.Music Hall has a capacity of 600 people, meaning it pales in comparison to some of London’s biggest venues. Apple says this is intentional as it wants to “close the gap between intimacy and production value” to give artists greater creative control while performing shows normally designed for thousands of fans.
- ▪Apple is opening its first live music venue, built to bring fans closer to artists performing arena-like shows.Apple Music Hall in London is housed in the same building as its UK headquarters.
- ▪It's part of the recently converted Battersea Power Station, an iconic building along the River Thames, originally built between 1929 and 1955, and later redeveloped into a public space and offices.Music Hall has a capacity of 600 people, m
- ▪Apple says this is intentional as it wants to “close the gap between intimacy and production value” to give artists greater creative control while performing shows normally designed for thousands of fans.
7 outlets in our directory ran this story, first to last over 5 hours. All of the coverage we found sits in one bucket: centre. That one-sidedness is itself worth noticing.
- ▪ Apple opens a dedicated concert venue with spatial audio and multi-cam video recording — Engadget
- ▪ Apple’s first live music venue is opening beneath its UK headquarters — The Verge
- ▪ Apple unveils Apple Music Hall, a live music venue in London's Battersea Power Station with a capacity of up to 600 people and two recording and mixing studios (David Phelan/Forbes) — Techmeme
- ▪ Apple Music Hall Spatial Audio Venue Opens in Battersea Power Station — MacRumors
- ▪ Apple Music opens new live music venue in London — 9to5Mac
- ▪ Apple Music to open concert venue in Battersea Power Station — Bbc
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Apple is opening its first live music venue, built to bring fans closer to artists performing arena-like shows.Apple Music Hall in London is housed in the same building as its UK headquarters. It's part of the recently converted Battersea Power Station, an iconic building along the River Thames, originally built between 1929 and 1955, and later redeveloped into a public space and offices.Music Hall has a capacity of 600 people, meaning it pales in comparison to some of London’s biggest venues. Apple says this is intentional as it wants to “close the gap between intimacy and production value” to give artists greater creative control while performing shows normally designed for thousands of fans.
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