David Odlum is an Irish music producer, engineer, guitarist, and drummer[1] who has worked and played with Academy Award winners and Mercury Prize nominees.

Originally a member of Kíla, a band which was founded during his schooldays at Coláiste Eoin, he left them and joined rock group The Frames, fronted by the Academy Award-winner Glen Hansard, and with whom he played guitar from 1990 until 2002.

[3] Other musicians for whom Odlum has produced albums include The Frames, with whom he worked on the album Burn the Maps after he had left the band, dEUS, Nina Hynes, Josh Ritter, Eoin Coughlan,[4] Ham Sandwich (Carry the Meek[5]), Luka Bloom (Eleven Songs[6]) and Miriam Ingram (Trampoline[7]).

The Frames were soon being recognised by the producer Trevor Horn and a string of MTV Europe Music Awards nominations followed for the song "Revelate".

[14] Odlum previously dated Gemma Hayes, having first met the singer in the Irish Film Centre's coffee shop.