Malcolm Todd, the Los Angeles songwriter whose “Earrings” became a sleeper hit on both sides of the Atlantic, plays three nights in Brixton behind his second album.
Malcolm Todd, the Los Angeles songwriter behind “Earrings”, brings the Do That Again Tour to O2 Academy Brixton on Tuesday 2, Wednesday 3 and Thursday 4 March 2027.
He was born Malcolm Todd Hobert in 2003 and grew up in the Palisades. His father wrote for the television series The Middle, and his mother sang in musical theatre.
He taught himself bass during the pandemic and made his first EP with a school friend. “Art House” and “Roommates” spread across TikTok in 2023, Columbia Records signed him, and the mixtape Sweet Boy followed in 2024.
His self-titled debut album of 2025 carried “Chest Pain (I Love)” into the Billboard Hot 100. In 2026 “Earrings”, an older song, reached the top 40 in Britain and America. Do That Again, released in June, entered the American album chart at number five.
His songs thread classic songcraft through indie pop and alternative R&B. The three London nights are built around the new album.
Brixton’s Academy opened in 1929 as a cinema, the Astoria, and has staged concerts as the Academy since 1983. It holds close to 5,000 people standing.