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London's stages and concert rooms: the West End houses and the playhouses that make their own shows, the grand halls, the churches with a musical life, the jazz basements, the comedy clubs, the clubs proper, and the rooms above pubs where things start. What is on is listed under each venue, and in What's On.
What is on at them this week is in What's On: Performance
A 1934 swimming pool, twelve and a half thousand seats, and the arena everyone still calls Wembley.
GigsWorth it for the building
It opened on 25 July 1934 as the Empire Pool, built for the Empire Games with a concrete frame by the engineer Owen Williams, whose vast unsupported span was the point of it. There was a full-size pool under the floor until 1948, when it held the Olympic swimming, and the building is historically protected for the engineering rather than the decoration.
It holds about twelve and a half thousand now, and the sponsor's name has changed often enough that nobody uses it. Live Aid, the Rolling Stones, Nirvana, and the Horse of the Year Show have all been in the same room.
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Data is compiled from public sources including OpenStreetMap, under the ODbL. Hours change often, so check before making a journey.