Apple’s New London Music Hall is Opening With a Legendary Headliner

This week, Apple gave London’s Battersea Station a massive makeover with the opening of Apple Music Hall, a state-of-the-art live music venue designed to help connect artists and fans through intimate performances.

The 600-seat hall, which is located alongside the River Thames, pulls out all the stops to provide an immersive experience and what Apple calls “an unprecedented level of creative control,” with a configurable stage and a 48-speaker spatial sound system.

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Now, Apple has given us a list of the first artists slated to take advantage of the new venue to reach their fans. The inaugural artist is none other than Sir Elton John, who will christen Apple Music Hall on the evening of Monday, September 28.

Tickets won’t be going on sale until 4 a.m. ET (9 a.m. London time) that same day, and with only 600 seats, you’ll probably want to get into the digital line as early as possible. Of course, the upside means that you’ll have time to prepare. Had ticket sales opened today, there’d probably be no point in us even offering up the link as they’d probably be sold out by the time you read this.

Notably, this will be Sir Elton John’s first public UK performance in over three years, following the conclusion of his Farewell Yellow Brick Road tour at Glastonbury Festival in June 2023. Still, he played Battersea Station long before Apple Music Hall was even a gleam in the company’s eye, performing a private concert there in 2014 to celebrate the building’s redevelopment.

Apple also has seven more artists lined up to perform at Apple Music Hall throughout the remainder of 2026:

• October 2: Baby Keem
• October 7: Skye Newman
• October 13: Troye Sivan
• October 22: Arlo Parks
• October 29: Burna Boy
• November 26: Chase & Status
• December 2: Charli XCX
  

Tickets for Baby Keem and Skye Newman will also go on sale on Monday morning at 4 a.m. ET (9 a.m. London time). Details for the remainder are listed as “coming soon.”

Doors open for each concert at 6:00 p.m. local time, and all of the tickets so far seem to be sold for the single price of £40 ($53 USD) — a lack of pricing tiers that likely reflects Apple’s promise that “every seat feels close to the performer.”

There’s no word yet on what the set list will be on Monday. The event page includes an embedded Apple Music widget of the 2014 remaster of Goodbye Yellow Brick Road, but that’s clearly just there as a placeholder sample

Since Apple Music Hall also serves as a production facility, with two dedicated recording and mix studios that allow the live performances to be captured as multitrack recordings and mixed in Spatial Audio, there’s a good chance we’ll eventually see these performances released on Apple Music — if for no other reason than for Apple to show off the capabilities of its new venue.

For more information about Apple Music Hall, or to learn how to get tickets for upcoming shows, visit applemusichall.com or follow @applemusichall on Instagram and TikTok. You can also check out the FAQ for more specific details on the venue and its policies.