Coldplay, Kasabian, Kylie Minogue, Slash, Meghan Trainor, Tom Odell. It sounds like a Glastonbury line-up, but it’s actually a list of some of the acts who graced the kitchen of Spotify’s old London office. As the Swedish company grew to become the undisputed king of streaming, it would wheel in some of the biggest names in music to perform for its staff at lunchtime on Argyll Street.
So stunning was one Kasabian gig that some of the 200 or so people watching in the canteen were left in tears, an employee remembers. Another time, Coldplay turned up having just played to 100,000 fans in Sydney two days earlier. Odell enjoyed his canteen set so much, he carried on busking in front of the office.
