When singer-songwriter Tom Odell first walked into London’s Roundhouse aged 14, it felt like catharsis. It was the first time Odell – from sleepy Chichester in West Sussex – saw his favourite artist, The Kinks’ Ray Davies, performing in the capital. “It was one of those strangely formative moments,” he remembers. “It blew my mind. Where I grew up, we didn’t have any venues as great. It had a huge influence over me.”
Odell is just one of the starry names paying it forward for Roundhouse Three Sixty, a groundbreaking new festival of contemporary culture happening at the Camden landmark this April. Across 30 days, the venue will offer a range of music, spoken word, theatre, visual arts, podcasts, and club nights, led by some of the biggest names in British talent, with the help of hundreds of young people and emerging artists as part of Roundhouse’s youth network.
