Tom Odell

Tom Odell
Background information
Birth name Thomas Peter Odell
Born (1990-11-24) 24 November 1990
Chichester, West Sussex, England
Genres Indie pop, Folk pop
Occupation(s) Singer-songwriter, musician
Instruments
  • Vocals
  • piano
  • keyboard
  • organ
  • guitar
Years active 2012–present
Labels
Associated acts Craig Messum
Website tomodell.com
Tom Odell, Zelt Musik Festival 2015 in Freiburg, Germany
Tom Odell, Zelt Musik Festival 2015 in Freiburg, Germany

Thomas Peter Odell (born 24 November 1990) is an English singer-songwriter. He released his debut extended play, Songs from Another Love, in 2012 and won the BRITs Critics' Choice Award in early 2013. His debut studio album, Long Way Down, was issued on 24 June 2013. His second studio album, Wrong Crowd, was released on 10 June 2016.

Early life

Odell was born in Chichester, West Sussex, England, to an airline pilot father and a primary school teacher mother.[1] He has an older sister.[2] He spent part of his childhood in New Zealand because of his father's job. He was educated at Seaford College.[1] He studied piano classically to Grade 7, and began writing his own songs at the age of 13, but told no one because he felt it was "uncool".[1][3]

At 18, Odell abandoned plans to attend the University of York[4] and attempted to gain a place at a music college in Liverpool.[5] He appeared at open-mic events nightly: "It was full of humiliation: dragging a keyboard round, turning up to find out I’d been taken off the bill, gangs of lads grabbing the mic off me and laughing... I learnt to perform and learnt what songs work."[1][6] A year later, he moved back to Chichester after being made redundant from his job as a barman.[5] Using his grandmother's car, he travelled regularly to London to play shows and to put advertisements in music schools.[6][7] He studied at the British and Irish Modern Music Institute[8] playing as part of the band Tom and the Tides[7][9] before moving to London in 2010. Tom and The Tides recorded the song "Spider" for the British and Irish Modern Music Institute student album[10] What's Inside Your Head Vol. 3.[11] However, he later decided to become a solo artist because he "didn't want to have to rely on people".

Career

2012–13: Career beginnings and Long Way Down

Odell is signed to In the Name Of, an imprint of Columbia Records. He was discovered by the label head Lily Allen, who remarked that "his energy onstage reminded me of David Bowie".[12] He was given an album advance: "I went out and bought an old Mini Cooper for cash. Then three weeks later I got back from a show in Scotland and the car was gone. So if you see a racing-green classic Mini Cooper, it's mine".[1] He released his debut extended play, Songs from Another Love, in October 2012.[13] He made his television debut in November 2012 as a performer on Later... with Jools Holland; the show's producer Alison Howe later described it as "a classic Later debut".[5][14] Odell was announced as one of 15 nominees for the BBC Sound of 2013 poll in January 2013.[15] Also that month, his single "Another Love" was used by the BBC to advertise their 2013 schedule.[16] Odell's music has been used in numerous Burberry fashion runway shows.[17] He was named the BRITs' Critics' Choice Award winner, previously won by artists such as Adele and Florence and the Machine and was the first male artist to win the award,[18] and was interviewed alongside previous winner Emeli Sandé during the television ceremony in February 2013.[19]

Odell's debut album, Long Way Down, was released on 24 June 2013[20] and reached No. 1 in the UK Official Chart. He was due to support The Rolling Stones at London's Hyde Park on 13 July 2013,[21] but was unable to perform because of illness.[22]

2014–15: Recognition

Odell performed his first new song since the release of Long Way Down, entitled "Alex", on 7 February 2014 at the Plymouth Pavilions.[23] The show kicked off the last leg of his UK Long Way Down Tour.

Odell was named 'songwriter of the year' at the 2014 Ivor Novello Awards ceremony.[24] Odell's song "Can't Pretend" was used in the TV series The 100. "Can't Pretend" and "Long Way Down" were also featured on The Blacklist and the award winning movie The Fault In Our Stars. His song "Grow Old With Me" was featured in an episode of Reign. His song "Heal" was also used in the movie If I Stay, the TV shows NCIS and The Vampire Diaries along with "Another Love".

Odell's next song, a cover of "Real Love" by The Beatles, was the audio track to the 2014 John Lewis Christmas advert and gained him great publicity. Within hours of the advert being aired for the first time, the track reached to the top of the music recognition service Shazam's trending list. Within three days of release, it went straight to 21 in the UK top 40, peaking at 7.

Odell's music was featured in a Sony advert in 2016, with a cover of "True Colours" by Cyndi Lauper.

2016–2017: Wrong Crowd

Odell began working on his second studio album in 2015, and played a variety of new songs at Forest Live, a concert series in England's forests by the Forestry Commission.[25] On 4 April 2016, the first single, "Wrong Crowd", was released, and an upcoming second studio album of the same name was announced. In addition, Odell announced that he would be going on tour in the US and Europe.[26] On 15 April 2016, the second single from the album, "Magnetised", was released. The next day, Odell revealed that his sold-out shows were titled the No Bad Days Tour, which kicked off on 20 April 2016 in London.[27] The full album was released on 10 June 2016.[28] In an interview with Holly Willoughby and Phillip Schofield on This Morning, Odell revealed that in some countries outside the UK, audiences have misunderstood the title of the album to be an insult, that they are in fact a bad crowd or so to speak the 'wrong crowd'.

2017–present: Jubilee Road

On his 'No Bad Days' tour, Odell revealed he is writing for a new album and played new songs live. In November of 2017 he toured Germany on the New Fall Festival in Düsseldorf and Stuttgart and announced that the album has been finished and a first single was to be released imminently. On December 20 2017, Odell announced in an interview on BBC Radio 2 that the new album is scheduled for release in mid-2018. On 14 June 2018, the first single from Odell's upcoming album, "If You Wanna Love Somebody", was released worldwide. The album 'Jubilee Road' will be released on 26 October of the same year.

Influences

Odell grew up listening to Elton John. One of the first albums he listened to was Goodbye Yellow Brick Road (1973). He also cites David Bowie, Jeff Buckley, Bob Dylan, Arthur Russell, Leonard Cohen, Leon Russell, Billy Joel, Randy Newman, Tom Waits, Rodríguez and Bruce Springsteen as influences.[2][6][29][30][31][32] He is a fan of Arcade Fire, Adele, James Blake, Cat Power, Blur, Beach House, Radiohead, Coldplay and Ben Folds.[2][6][31][33][34]

Odell has said his lyrics are inspired by his "inability to sustain a relationship with someone for longer than six months." He says, "I find that I write much better songs when I'm being honest, and writing about things that happen to me. It can get a little weird though, when friends or girlfriends work out that a song is about them. But it's amazing what you can get away with it. Artistic licence, I think they call it."[35]

Discography

Studio albums

Title Details Peak chart positions Certifications
UK
[36]		 AUS
[37]		 AUT
[38]		 BEL
[39]		 DEN
[40]		 GER
[41]		 IRE
[42]		 NL
[43]		 NZ
[44]		 SWI
[45]
Long Way Down 166485361751392
Wrong Crowd
  • Release: 10 June 2016[49]
  • Label: Columbia
  • Format: CD, digital download, LP
 2293513—1669—[upper-alpha 1]2
Jubilee Road
  • Release: 26 October 2018[51]
  • Label: Columbia
  • Format: CD, digital download, LP
 ——————————

Extended plays

Title Details
Songs from Another Love
The Another Love EP
Spending All My Christmas with You
  • Release: 9 December 2016[53]
  • Label: Columbia
  • Format: Digital download

Singles

Single Year Peak chart positions Certifications Album or EP
UK
[36]		 AUT
[38]		 BEL
[39]		 FRA
[54]		 GER
[41]		 IRE
[42]		 NL
[43]		 NZ
[44]		 SWI
[45]
"Another Love" 2012 10211111246—23 Long Way Down
"Can't Pretend" 2013 67—52200—————
"Hold Me" 44————————
"Grow Old with Me" 46—53——————
"I Know" 92—70——————
"Real Love" 2014 7—71——1683—— Spending All My Christmas With You
"Wrong Crowd" 2016 ————————— Wrong Crowd
"Magnetised" 40—51157—62——[upper-alpha 2]73
"Here I Am" ——58——————
"True Colours" ————————— N/A
"Silhouette" ————————— Wrong Crowd
"Jealousy" 2017 —————————
"If You Wanna Love Somebody" 2018 ————————— Jubilee Road
"—" denotes single that did not chart or was not released.

Promotional singles

Title Year Album
"Sirens" 2013 Long Way Down
"Jubilee Road"[60] 2018 Jubilee Road
"Half As Good As You"
(with Alice Merton)

Tours and concerts

  • Long Way Down Tour (2013)
  • No Bad Days Tour (2016-2017)
  • Jubilee Road Tour (2018)

Awards and nominations

Year Organisation Award Result
2013 MTV Brand New For 2013[61] Nominated
BRIT Awards Critics' Choice[19] Won
BBC Sound of 2013[15] Nominated
2014 BRIT Awards British Male Solo Artist Nominated
British Breakthrough Act Nominated
Ivor Novello Awards Songwriter of the Year Won

Notes

  1. ↑ Wrong Crowd did not enter the NZ Top 40 Albums Chart, but peaked at number 6 on the NZ Heatseekers Albums Chart.[50]
  2. ↑ "Magnetised" did not enter the NZ Top 40 Singles Chart, but peaked at number 7 on the NZ Heatseekers Singles Chart.[59]

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