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Apple Music to open concert venue in Battersea Power Station

71 points · 101 comments · dabinat

  1. dofm · · focus · HN ↗
    Oh dear.

    The redeveloped Battersea Power Station is one of the most soulless, dead-eyed, wealth-obsessed places in all of London. This is a terrible place to put something like a music venue, unless your target market is the adult children of emigres with unexplained wealth, and I think it speaks to Apple’s sanitised, emotionally-distant, luxury-focussed worldview that they would consider it.

    Incredible building. Awful development. They could have donated ten million quid to the Music Venue Trust instead.

    The free U2 album looks like the work of a tastemaker by comparison.

    1. cjrp · · focus · HN ↗
      Presumably they’re putting it there because their corporate office is in the power station too.
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