Rockers band, Odds, are on the tour trail and they’re hitting Camrose!
Playing at the Jeanne and Peter Lougheed Performing Arts Centre on Oct. 18 at 7:30 p.m., this is a live concert event you’re going to love. It’s all part of the Shuman Insurance Presentation Series for our 10 year anniversary of bringing the performing arts to Camrose.
Heads up, this event is show-sponsored by Sunrise Outdoor Advertising.
But enough about our 10 years, here’s some information about Odds and what they did to the rock and roll scene in Canada.
Founded in Vancouver, B.C. in 1987, Odds burst onto the recording scene in 1991 with their rambunctious, self-produced major label debut, Neopolitan.
“We seem to resolve even our most dire songs with a weird sense of optimism.” Odds’ Craig Northey.
The band brings singer/guitarist, Craig Northey, bassist/vocalist, Doug Elliot, drummer, Pat Steward, and guitarist/vocalist, Murray Atkinson to the stage.
Their 1993 Gold-selling follow-up, Bedbugs, featured the iconic single “It Falls Apart” and they continued a run of successful and critically acclaimed releases including 1995’s Platinum-selling Good Weird Feeling, and the 1996 album Nest, featuring the hit singles “Someone Who’s Cool” and “Make You Mad.” In the years since their 2008 release, Cheerleader, they have continued to release EPs (compiled on their 2013 release, Universal Remote) while taking frequent detours into film and television music for the likes of The Kids In The Hall, and Brent Butt (Corner Gas).
And after this many years, the band is still out there, producing music and touring. Their latest album, produced at the end of 2023, is called Crash the Time Machine.
“We’ve been waiting a long time to share this album,” says Northey, “and we’re all really proud of it. We’ve been playing it for some of our musical inner circle for a while and it truly buoys our spirits when somebody says it sounds like Odds, but it also sounds new.”
As the title implies, Crash the Time Machine finds the Odds firmly embracing the future and the possibilities of catharsis.
“We seem to resolve even our most dire songs with a weird sense of optimism,” says Northey. “There’s been unrest over the last few years, but upheaval allows voices to be heard that should have been heard ages ago.”
After laying down most of the basic tracks at the band’s Doghouse of Thunder studio in North Vancouver, Odds enlisted their good friend and frequent collaborator, Steven Page, to co-produce the album, adding various touches remotely at his own studio in Syracuse, New York.
“Steven was a true collaborator; he’d hear mixes or ideas or lyrics along the way and when he had something to say, he spoke up. He also became part of the vocal blend as we shaped the record, remotely from our homes, as we all added what I call the ‘icing’ and fixed anything we couldn’t live with.”
Odds’ Craig Northey was at the Jeanne and Peter Lougheed Performing Arts Centre last season to perform with Paige, so we’re glad to see him return with Odds!
Page isn’t the only musical friend on board. The album’s striking cover illustration for comes courtesy of, Rob Baker, another frequent musical collaborator and a founding member of The Tragically Hip.
On Crash the Time Machine, Odds embrace the awesome power of Now, while celebrating the friends we make along the way. These 13 original songs constitute a vibrant painting of struggle and the community that both feeds it and transcends it.
Odds aren’t the only rock and roll group to hit the Lougheed Centre in Camrose. We’ve seen quite a few groups like Finger Eleven on the stage, plus we’ve got Sloan coming up on Jan. 11 and old school satire rockers, The Arrogant Worms on March 12!
When it comes to live concerts and events in Camrose, the Lougheed Centre is the place to find them.
