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1. dofm · 1790058214 · 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. flyinglizard · 1790058840 · focus · HN ↗

      I beg to differ. I stayed in Battersea for a week while exploring London. I found the place very welcoming, safe and inspiring. It’s convenient to get to and from with its dedicated underground line. I can see how it fits the Apple brand experience very well (they don’t do gritty stuff). In fact I believe there’s already an Apple Store there.

      1. dofm · 1790059326 · focus · HN ↗

         Of course there's an Apple Store there.

         There's also a little local shop for the residents that stocks wine costing over £1000 a bottle.

         It's a grotesque place.

         No music venue in London is really "gritty" anymore but loads of them are under threat from developers and need all the help they can to survive.

         Putting a music venue in the Battersea Power Station development is just making a music venue for the foreign money laundromat.

         1. philjohn · 1790064326 · focus · HN ↗

            And the general store also has bottles of wine costing 10-30 a bottle. I did always chuckle at the bottles of 1972 Petrus in the "fancy wine" section.

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