Tom Odell Announces Wonderful Life Tour For January 2026

MELBOURNE, Monday September 8, 2025: Award-winning British singer songwriter Tom Odell has today announced his return to Australia on the Wonderful Life Tour, set down for January 2026. Odell is a firm favourite of Australian audiences. After quickly selling out two shows at Sydney Opera House last year, this will mark Odell’s first full Australian tour since 2014. This tour will showcase his vast catalogue, on top of cuts from his highly anticipated seventh studio album A Wonderful Life, released last week.

The Wonderful Life Tour will kick off on Friday January 16 in Sydney at Hordern Pavilion, followed by Brisbane’s Fortitude Music Hall on Sunday January 18, before concluding in Melbourne at Festival Hall on Wednesday January 21.

Tickets will be available starting with an artist presale on Tuesday September 9 at 9am, running until Thursday September 11 at 8am.

Mastercard cardholders have special access to presale tickets commencing on Tuesday September 9 at 9am local time, concluding on Thursday September 11 at 8am. Plus, preferred ticket access to some of the best tickets is available from Thursday September 11 at 9am. Check out priceless.com/music for details.

The Live Nation Presale starts Wednesday September 10 at 11am running until Thursday September 11 at 8am or until allocation is exhausted. To access presale tickets, sign up now at livenation.com.au/register.

 A Spotify presale runs from Wednesday September 10 at 1pm running until Thursday September 11 at 8am.

 General onsale is Thursday September 11 at 9am.

 All times are local.

 For complete tour, ticket and VIP information, visit livenation.com.au

Tom Odell is one of the most distinctive voices in contemporary music, known for his emotionally charged songwriting and willingness to embrace vulnerability. Since breaking through with “Another Love” — now a global anthem with over three billion Spotify streams — Odell has consistently pushed beyond pop conventions, offering music that speaks to the fragility of the human condition and the complexities of modern life. His blend of stark honesty and poetic lyricism has resonated with millions worldwide, with recent singles like “Black Friday” (nearly 700 million streams) cementing his place as an artist unafraid to confront both pain and beauty head-on.

With the release of his seventh studio album, A Wonderful Life, Odell continues this journey of unflinching honesty. Written across tour buses, trains, and studios, the record captures a world in flux — where doomscrolling, anxiety, and fractured modernity collide with moments of deep reflection and fragile hope.

Songs such as “Don’t Let Me Go” and “Wonderful Life” carry an intimacy that feels both universal and personal, with Odell’s voice reaching through the noise to offer connection and comfort. The live, human quality of the recordings — captured with his band playing together in the studio — adds to the sense that these are not just songs, but conversations.

Now, as he prepares to bring A Wonderful Life to audiences around the world, Odell is stepping into a new chapter defined not by polished pop stardom, but by fearless truth-telling. His music remains a refuge for listeners navigating their own struggles, and a reminder that even in the darkest of times, moments of beauty and connection can still be found.

TOM ODELL
WONDERFUL LIFE TOUR – AUSTRALIA 2026

Hordern Pavilion, Sydney
Friday January 16

Fortitude Music Hall, Brisbane
Sunday January 18

Festival Hall, Melbourne
Wednesday January 21

General onsale is Thursday September 11 at 9am.
 Artist Presale: Tuesday September 9 at 9am - Thursday September 11 at 8am
MasterCard Presale: Tuesday September 9 at 9am - Thursday September 11 at 8am
Live Nation Presale: Wednesday September 10 at 11am - Thursday September 11 at 8am
Spotify Presale: Wednesday September 10 at 1pm - Thursday September 11 at 8am
All times are local.

For complete tour, ticket and VIP information, visit livenation.com.au

About Tom Odell

Tom Odell has been stripping back the layers, creating a prolific and increasingly vulnerable canon of work that speaks to the frailties of the human condition and the fragility of the world around us. Particularly since the pandemic and 2021’s Monsters, Odell’s songwriting has put rawness and honesty to the fore, with a whole new generation of fans finding vital solace in his music in response. Sixth album Black Friday's haunting title track has earned nearly 700 million combined streams since its late-2023 release, while a resurgence of excitement around his first ever single - 2012’s ‘Another Love’ - has seen it soar to over three billion plays on Spotify alone.

As Odell has become braver as a writer, pushing himself to uncover the most fragile and often painful parts of his psyche, so has he established himself as a true artist of note: a fact underlined by a pair of Ivor Novello nominations for Best Song Musically and Lyrically, in both 2023 and 2024. For the now-34-year-old, it’s been an illuminating journey. “The things that you feel slightly uncomfortable playing to your friends or your parents, they’re what you should put out because then it’s worth sharing,” he says. “We keep so much stuff inside, and that’s what tends to torture us the most - not the things we’re prepared to talk about - so I try to write about that as much as possible.”

Though Odell first came to prominence as a Brit Award-winning new UK pop hope, it’s never been this type of shiny, mainstream success that fuels him. “I never applied to the role of pop star and I always felt like I was being perceived in the wrong way,” he reflects. And as he’s committed further to his own vision, crafting intensely personal songs dealing with mental health struggles, body image issues and beyond, he’s seen the connections spread across the globe, through his 2.7 million TikTok followers and out into the real world environs of the live stage, where he’s been supporting Billie Eilish on her European arena tour before embarking on his own run of intimate underplays. “It alleviates some of the loneliness of existing,” he suggests of why his music has resonated so strongly, “which is what we’re all going through, together.”

Now, with his seventh studio album, Odell has created a record that embodies this spirit of empathetic, total honesty; one that looks out at the broken landscape of modern, fractured society and finds dystopia and doom, but also - integrally - glimmers of beauty and hope. A Wonderful Life was written over nine months in 2024, on tour buses and trains. More than any album previously, perfecting the lyrics was a true labour of love. “I laboured over every line,” he nods. “I went in on those words every day, on every plane journey, just refining and refining and refining. I can be a bit obsessive, and the obsessive part of me is probably the worst part of me and the bit that I would pay so much money for a therapist to tell me how to lose. But it’s also the bit that does not give up on songs.”

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