'Another Love' singer-songwriter, Tom Odell is bringing his Black Friday tour to Sydney in an exclusive Australian performance.
The English artist, who has won a Brit Awards' Critics Choice Award and Ivor Novello Award for Songwriter Of The Year, will perform material from his 2024 album 'Black Friday' and extensive back catalogue accompanied by Sydney's The Metropolitan Orchestra."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."
An artist who has amassed 2.75 billion TikTok views and 37 million monthly Spotify listeners, 2024 has seen Tom playing sold-out concerts across Europe, UK and North America.
"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," Odell says.
"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."
For Odell, the act of creating such an immersive body of work that is 'Black Friday' 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."
Tickets on sale from 9am (local time) on 25 October.
Tom Odell 2025 Tour Dates
Sat 4 Jan - Sydney Opera House* selling fastSun 5 Jan - Sydney Opera House* new show
