Tom Odell adds 2nd show at Sydney Opera House due to phenomenal demand
MELBOURNE, AU (25 October, 2024) – Multi-platinum singer/songwriter Tom Odell has announced he is adding a second and final show at Sydney Opera House on January 5 due to phenomenal demand. These two performances are Tom Odell’s exclusive Australian shows and will be performed with The Metropolitan Orchestra from Sydney.
The announcement comes after the release of his new album, Black Friday, which has garnered praise from critics and fans alike. The lead single “Black Friday” has amassed over 166 million Spotify streams, and 2.75 billion views on TikTok. As Odell continues his meteoric rise, 2024 found him embarking on his biggest tour to date, playing to sold-out venues in Europe, UK and North America.
“It has been a lifelong dream of mine to play at the Sydney Opera House and I’m beyond excited that it is finally happening in January. Performing with The Metropolitan Orchestra in such an iconic venue will be extremely special” – Tom Odell
Tickets will go on sale to the general public this Friday 25 October at 9am local time.
TOM ODELL
BLACK FRIDAY TOUR 2025
WITH THE METROPOLITAN ORCHESTRA - SYDNEY
SYDNEY OPERA HOUSE, SYDNEY
SATURDAY 04 JANUARY 2025
SYDNEY OPERA HOUSE, SYDNEY
SUNDAY 05 JANUARY 2025 – NEW SHOW
TICKETS ON SALE FRIDAY 25 OCTOBER, 9AM (LOCAL)
For complete tour & ticket information, visit: livenation.com.au
ABOUT TOM ODELL
On his new album Black Friday, multi-platinum-selling singer/songwriter/producer Tom Odell finds an unlikely beauty in laying bare his most closely guarded thoughts and feelings. The latest turn in a decade-long career that’s included winning a BRITs Critics’ Choice Award and the Ivor Novello Award for Songwriter of the Year—as well as releasing five studio albums that have earned him 37 million monthly listeners on Spotify, well over 5 billion career streams, and a social-media reach of 11 million across all platforms—the globally beloved British musician’s sixth full-length album brings his exquisitely candid lyricism to a lived-in meditation of the infinite complexity of love and relationships. “Over the last few years, I’ve focused on removing a lot of the filters from the creative process and making it a mantra to be as real as possible in my lyrics,” says Odell. “It feels so much more inspiring and stimulating to say something that might make me slightly uncomfortable, to the point where there’s a degree of almost voyeuristic transparency in what I’m revealing.”
The follow-up to the critically lauded Best Day Of My Life, Black Friday arrives as Odell’s fanbase expands at an extraordinary rate, with more and more listeners around the world discovering the stunning eloquence and potent emotionality of his songwriting. To that end, his multi-platinum, global hit “Another Love” experienced a massive viral resurgence in 2022 resulting in over 4 million creates on TikTok and cementing it as one of the most streamed songs of all time on Spotify, where Black Friday’s title track recently drew an electrifying response that’s included garnering over 80 million views and generating fan content with over 1 billion interactions proving the profound resonance of his lyrics. As Odell continues his meteoric rise, October found him embarking on his biggest North American tour to date, playing to sold-out venues in major markets like New York City, Los Angeles, Nashville, and Philadelphia.
In a departure from the piano-driven minimalism of Best Day Of My Life, Black Friday presents a selection of songs written and extemporaneously performed on a nearly-100-year-old guitar in Odell’s East London studio. “I sat there on the sofa with a couple of mics and no click and tried to deliver the songs in a way that felt more spoken or conversational,” he recalls. Although Odell and his co-producer/longtime collaborator Cityfall made a point of preserving the unvarnished intimacy of those sessions (some of which featured a full band), they later adorned Black Friday’s mercurial form of indie-rock with dreamlike textures and a full orchestra. “Because the record was so raw I thought it might be exciting to bring in an orchestral element, which totally transformed the songs,” Odell says. “To me it feels like a living being, where in some moments it adds a whole other layer of tension and in other moments it feels very liberated and free.”
Opening on the pained yet playful confession of “Answer Phone,” Black Friday unfolds with equal parts intensely personal detail and incisive reflection on such matters as loss, anxiety, and the fragility of connection. “I wanted to write something that carries the same nuance that loving someone does,” says Odell. “Whether it’s romantic love or friendship or family, it’s something that keeps me fascinated.” Along with its gorgeously aching title track—a September release that amassed two million streams in its first day alone, making Odell one of the top 100 most streamed artists in the world, and quickly surpassed 60 million streams—Black Friday finds Odell mining inspiration from such eclectic sources as a Jungian analysis of the artwork of William Blake (on the unsettling and strangely euphoric “Loving You Will Be The Death Of Me”) and Luca Guadagnino’s Call Me By Your Name (on the indelibly tender “The End Of The Summer”). And on “Parties,” Odell shares a cinematic piece of storytelling whose emotional landscape encompasses everything from bitter self-loathing to sweetly hopeful longing.
For Odell, the act of creating such an immersive body of work involved balancing his bracing honesty with a certain element of poetic freedom. “I wanted to open myself up and bring a real degree of vulnerability to these songs, but by no means was there an attempt to create a sort of musical diary entry,” he says. “The idea of making something purely autobiographical seems quite boring to me; I need there to be much more creativity and imagination involved. At the same time, I ended up exploring how I felt about things that I’d never really thought about before, and discovering things about myself that I might not have learned otherwise. It was a very exhausting and intense process, but ultimately I feel like that’s the best place for me to be as an artist. Instead of putting out the same ideas, I want to always take risks and try to say something new.”
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