{"id":712056,"date":"2026-07-26T13:55:09","date_gmt":"2026-07-26T13:55:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/712056\/"},"modified":"2026-07-26T13:55:09","modified_gmt":"2026-07-26T13:55:09","slug":"tom-odell-says-latitude-festival-has-figured-out-its-identity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/712056\/","title":{"rendered":"Tom Odell says Latitude Festival has &#8216;figured out its identity&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;It&#8217;s a great line-up and the site is very pretty \u2013 it seems lovely,&#8221; added Odell, whose grandfather supported Ipswich Town.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;[Like Latitude], my career has built up slowly &#8211; last year we played arenas and it took 13 years to get there, and I wouldn&#8217;t have wanted to do them when I was younger.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;And the same goes for tonight at Latitude. When you start out, you play earlier in the afternoon and that&#8217;s nice because you can go drink beer for the rest of the day.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;But, as you get a bit more accomplished and you have more songs and more albums and a few people know you, it feels more comfortable playing in the evenings.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Before taking to the stage with his &#8220;amazing band&#8221;, just before headliner Teddy Swims, Odell took time to explore the festival and catch some other acts.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">He said having a chance to get a feel for what the festival was about before his performance, which included a brass band, was &#8220;really important&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;I try to get there and soak up some of the energy, and each festival is so radically different and the people in the audience want something different of us,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"&#8220;It&#8217;s a great line-up and the site is very pretty \u2013 it seems lovely,&#8221; added Odell, whose grandfather&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":712057,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[6491,96,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-712056","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-celebrities","tag-celebrities","tag-entertainment","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/712056","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=712056"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/712056\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/712057"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=712056"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=712056"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=712056"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}