Performance venues

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.

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The O2 Arena

Twenty thousand people under the Millennium Dome, and for years the busiest music arena in the world.

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Richard Rogers's dome was finished in 1999 for a millennium exhibition that lasted a year and was widely judged a failure; the tent stayed up and empty for six years while everyone argued about what to do with it. The answer, in 2007, was to build an arena inside it and leave the rest as a covered street of bars and cinemas, which is why you walk through a shopping mall to reach a twenty-thousand-seat room.

It has topped the world ticket-sales rankings repeatedly since. The smaller hall next door, Indigo, takes about two and a half thousand, and the roof can be climbed on a walkway over the top of the tent.

Where
Peninsula Square, SE10 0DX
Nearest station
North Greenwich · 3 min walk

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