Birmingham show promotes new Tom Odell record
Fans will be showing Another Love for Tom Odell after he shared details of his brand new forthcoming third studio album Jubilee Road, and a tour stopping off in Birmingham to promote it.
Jubilee Road is set for release on October 12 on Columbia Records, with Tom bringing his piano and luscious blonde hair to the O2 Academy on October 21.
Record number three may well be Odell’s most honest and personal outing so far. Packed with grandstanding melodies, Jubilee Road intertwines real life stories of the time Tom spent living in a house in East London. Choosing to fictionalise the street to preserve his former neighbours' privacy, the listener is drawn into the affecting real-life dramas that Odell paints.
From the scene-setting of the street’s colourful community and the whiskey-shaking gamblers in the local betting shop (Queen Of Diamonds), to the almost unbearably bitter-sweet celebration of Wedding Day.
Speaking about the album Tom, aged 27, said: “I wrote this in a house on a quiet terraced street in East London. The lyrics are inspired by the lives of the friends I made while living there. I recorded most of the songs in the living room of the house and if I listen back closely, I can still hear the sound of the old man’s television shows coming through the walls from next door, the kids from the house opposite playing football in the street below and the sound of my girlfriend’s footsteps on the wooden floorboards above.
"I don’t live there anymore, my life has changed somewhat, but I will always remember the time fondly and I hope you enjoy listening to the album as much as I did making it."
Tickets for Tom Odell's O2 Academy gig, priced at £31.60, are available here.
