Tom Odell: No Bad Days Tour...
Tom Odell has just announced UK tour support acts on the No Bad Days Tour! Joining him here in Plymouth on Sat 5th November are Rag n Bone Man and Johnny Lloyd!
In early 2014 a somewhat exhausted Tom Odell suddenly realised with some sense of horror that he had spent more than a year promoting songs from his debut album “Long Way Down”, the album which had propelled him to huge and seemingly inexorable success upon release the previous year.
Huge sales notwithstanding – the album went straight into the UK chart at No1, turned platinum and ultimately achieved a staggering 1 million sales - Odell also knew that the success of the album had meant that he hadn’t written any new material throughout the whole cycle of promotion and live shows. For such a hugely talented writer, whose first collection had seen him scoop an Ivor Novello Award for Best Songwriter, it was galling to think that the gestation period for the first set of songs – his whole adolescent and adult life, basically – might need to be condensed into a very short period of writing new material for his second album.
It’s a typical issue facing every creative artist – how to find the time to write a follow-up to an album which, in this case, was lauded by supreme songwriters including Elton John, Billy Joel and The Rolling Stones ,who invited Tom to support them at London’s Hyde Park.
A brief return home in the Spring of 2014 saw Tom tour Europe and collect his prized Ivor Novello Award, but by September his wanderlust kicked in again and he left London, this time to LA where he rented an apartment in the back streets of Echo Park. It was in LA, home and adopted home to so many legendary singer/songwriters , that “Wrong Crowd” began to take shape.
Tom; “With the brilliant Jim Abbiss producing, I wanted the songs to sound big and dramatic; big strings and melodies emphasizing the songs further, rich in musicality and holding nothing back. I’d been touring for a few months by this point with my dear friend Andy Burrows(drums) who plays with such flair. His drums provided the darkness and excitement. On the track ‘Silhouette’ I had always imagined a big Gershwin-style introduction, which we recorded at Abbey Road. But most of the recording was done in Rockfield in Wales which provided the kind of quiet we needed to make such a loud noise.”
“The album follows a narrative of a man held at ransom by his childhood, yearning for it, yearning for nature. A desire for innocence in this perverse world in which he now lives. It’s a fictional story but the emotions and feelings are obviously ones I have felt – although the stories are elaborated and exaggerated. I wanted to create a world with a heightened sense of reality, like in a Fellini film.”
“Really, I’d love to live in a time when music gave people a real sense of elevation. When my music is sad I want it to be REALLY sad. When it’s happy I want it to feel euphoric…I suppose I want the record to express the heightened feelings and emotions we all get in our lives.”
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