Apple Music is expanding its presence in London with a new live music venue and dedicated radio studios at Battersea Power Station, giving artists a new space where live performances, recording, broadcasting, and fan experiences can all happen under one roof.

Called Apple Music Hall, the 600-capacity venue is designed for intimate performances while packing the production capabilities of a much larger concert facility. Apple announced the venue on September 21, describing it as a new way to connect artists and fans through live music while giving performers the ability to create finished audio and video content from the same event.

The venue itself is part of Apple’s London headquarters at Battersea Power Station and takes visual cues from the historic building. Heritage brickwork, fluted arches, bronze balconies, and a large glass wall overlooking the concourse and River Thames are incorporated into the space.

The Apple Music Hall website says the venue will officially open on September 28, with fans able to sign up for announcements about upcoming shows and ticket sales.

A 600-seat venue built for intimate performances

Apple Music Hall is deliberately smaller than a traditional concert venue, with capacity for around 600 people. The idea is to keep audiences close to the artist without sacrificing the production technology normally associated with much larger shows.

The 38-foot-wide stage can be configured for conventional front-facing performances or arranged for shows performed in the round. The venue also features a 48-speaker spatial sound system positioned around the audience, allowing performances to be experienced with immersive audio.

That combination of a relatively small audience and high-end production infrastructure is central to Apple’s concept. A performance can remain intimate for the people in the room while simultaneously being produced for audiences watching around the world.

Apple says performances from the venue will be livestreamed globally, giving Apple Music listeners outside London a way to experience the one-time-only shows.

The concert venue doubles as a production facility

Behind the stage, Apple Music Hall is equipped to handle much more than the performance itself.

Apple has built two dedicated recording and mixing studios into the venue, allowing performances to be captured as multitrack recordings and mixed in Spatial Audio either during or after the show. The facility is also wired to support 16 or more cameras feeding into a dedicated broadcast control room. Apple’s infrastructure can accommodate iPhone video capture alongside traditional broadcast cameras.

That means an artist can effectively turn a single live performance into several pieces of finished content. The same show can produce a live experience for fans in London, a Spatial Audio recording, a broadcast-ready audio mix, and multicamera video.

It also gives Apple greater control over the production process. Rather than bringing an artist into a conventional concert venue and handling recording and broadcast operations separately, Apple Music Hall is designed from the ground up to combine those workflows.

Apple Music Radio is moving into the same space

The London expansion isn’t limited to live performances. Apple is also opening new Apple Music Radio studios at Battersea Power Station, bringing the service’s London-based radio operations into the new creative hub.

The studios are designed for conversations between artists and hosts, as well as live performances and other radio programming. This puts Apple Music’s radio production, artist interviews, live events, and recording capabilities in much closer proximity.

For artists, that could mean a single visit to the Battersea facility can encompass several types of Apple Music content. An artist could perform at the Hall, record an interview for Apple Music Radio, and create additional audio or video content without having to move between different facilities across London.

The approach also fits with Apple’s broader investment in dedicated spaces for artists. The company opened a major Apple Music creative hub in Los Angeles in 2025, featuring radio studios, a soundstage, Spatial Audio mixing facilities, and spaces for songwriting, podcasts, interviews, and content creation.

London gets a new Apple Music creative hub

Apple Music Hall gives Apple a physical venue for artist-focused programming in one of the world’s major music cities. It also marks a return to a more visible live-music presence for Apple in London after the company ended its iTunes Festival, later known as the Apple Music Festival, following its 2017 edition.

The new venue is a different proposition, however. Rather than relying on a temporary festival format, Apple Music Hall is a permanent facility built around a combination of live performance and content production.

Apple Music’s Oliver Schusser, vice president of Apple Music and International Content, said the venue represents another step in the company’s long-running relationship with music, tracing that history from the iPod and iTunes Festival through to Apple Music.

Zane Lowe, Apple’s global creative director and lead anchor for Apple Music 1, also emphasized the company’s focus on creating new ways for artists and fans to connect.

With the new Hall and radio studios operating from the same location, Apple is effectively turning its Battersea headquarters into a dedicated London base for live music, radio, recording, and broadcast production.

The first Apple Music Hall shows have yet to be announced. For now, fans can sign up through the venue’s official website for show and ticket-sale announcements, with the venue scheduled to open on September 28.