Even the best performers have bad days. And when Tom Odell played the Hollywood Forever Cemetery in 2016, he wrote the gig off as a dud.
"I was really dissatisfied with that show," he recalls. "I was frustrated, and I don't think it went how I wanted it to go. I don't even think it was a full crowd."
But in the audience that night was an 18-year-old musician called Finneas O'Connell and his younger sister, Billie Eilish.
A few months earlier, they'd uploaded a demo song to Soundcloud. Something about Odell's performance changed the trajectory of their lives.
"I was already a fan," said O'Connell, "but I watched the show he put on, and his band were incredible and his songs were incredible.






