Apple to open new “state-of-the-art” music venue at London’s Battersea Power Station

Apple has announced the opening of Apple Music Hall, a new state-of-the-art live music venue in London’s Battersea Power Station. READ MORE: ‘You need ultimate commitment’: Zane Lowe on the music landscape facing artists in 2019 Said in a press release to be designed to “connect artists and fans” with intimate performances, Oliver Schusser, vice president of Apple Music and International Content, said the move to open the space marked a further step in the company’s “commitment to artists and fans, by supporting live music in ways only Apple can do”. The 600-capacity venue has been designed to close the gap between “intimacy and production value”, boasting a 38-foot-wide stage that can be rearranged for traditional front-facing sets or in-the-round experiences. Additionally, the venue is equipped with a 48-speaker spatial sound system, and doubles u as a full production facility with two dedicated recording and mix studios, meaning every performance can be captured as a multitrack recording and mixed in Spatial Audio. The venue is also hardwired for 16 or more cameras that feed a purpose-built broadcast control room with infrastructure that supports iPhone video capture running in ...