Tom Odell

In the organizer's words:

The Wonderful Life Tour 2025

Between hope and the abyss:

Tom Odell and the fragile happiness of a "Wonderful Life"

Opener: Matilda Mann

Support: David Kushner

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Once hailed by the public as a new British pop hopeful, Tom Odell has long since moved away from the slick surface of mainstream pop. With "A Wonderful Life", his seventh studio album, he has now created a work that is more than just music: an unsparing inventory of an artist who liberates himself through writing - and at the same time a silent embrace for a world in a state of permanent crisis.

The album was created during nine intense months, on buses, trains, airplanes - wherever the 34-year-old found himself between tour dates and moments of solitude. "I worked on the lyrics every day, over and over again. It was like an obsession," says Odell. This obsession is reflected in the precision of his songs: sometimes whisperingly tender, sometimes painfully direct, often both at the same time. "A Wonderful Life" is pervaded by a feeling of loss of control. The world news flickers like an apocalyptic endless loop in which hope and powerlessness alternate. Odell channels this restlessness in songs like "Don't Let Me Go", which shakes things up with lines about social media dystopia and the emotional emptiness of the digital age: "You smile and look down at your phone / The city is filling with smoke". In "Why Do I Always Want The Things I Can't Have", he takes responsibility: not as an accuser, but as part of a system that he himself helps to shape.

And then there is "Ugly" - a song that cuts deep. "You don't wanna touch me / Don't wanna fuck me / 'Cause I'm ugly." Hardly any other artist with such range would dare to sing so relentlessly about their own body and feelings of shame. But Odell does it. Because it has to be said. Because, as he says, it's "fucking powerful" when you stop hiding.

But the music is never just dark. There is comfort between the lines. In the title track, for example, Odell searches for beauty in the everyday, for calm in the midst of chaos. "Prayer", on the other hand, seems like a tender conversation with his own childhood self - an act of reconciliation.
Odell's voice - fragile, close, almost confidential - carries it all. Supported by a production that consciously refuses perfectionism: recorded live, with the deliberate "bleed" of the instruments that creates closeness instead of distance. This warmth makes the album an alternative to the coldness of world events.

The fact that Odell is a global star today, with over 14 billion streams and 31 million monthly listeners, only plays a marginal role in his art. He is concerned with something else: connection, the sharing of pain - and ultimately, he says, with the
attempt to "alleviate the loneliness of existence a little".

In the fall, Tom Odell will go on a major arena tour through Europe with "A Wonderful Life". In addition to appearances in London, Paris and Amsterdam, he will also be playing in Germany. A rare opportunity to experience this unusually approachable artist on a large scale. And perhaps, for a few hours, to feel together that life - despite everything - can be beautiful.