Van Morrison confirms first London residency at British Airways ARC

Van Morrison will play five nights at London’s British Airways ARC this September, the first residency announced for the newly built Olympia venue. The three-thousand-capacity room, set to open on 16 June, confirmed the run for 23, 24, 27, 28 and 29 September. All shows are fully seated.

It is a rare multi-night commitment from an artist who has kept his distance from back-to-back engagements in the capital. Morrison’s recent London appearances arrived as one-off shows in larger rooms or festival slots; the ARC residency places him in a more contained, carefully shaped environment. The residency format suits a performer long attuned to atmosphere and room tone, and a seated configuration sharpens that attention.

The British Airways ARC sits within the Olympia redevelopment, a project that turns the exhibition halls into a new cultural quarter in west London. Operated by AEG Presents, the venue is pushing a residency model from the start, betting on the city’s appetite for contained, high-repetition runs over single-night tours. Morrison, as the first name attached, sets a deliberate, stripped-back tone. Tickets go on sale on 18 March.