NEW ODDS
“Nothing Beautiful Lasts”. That was the title of one of “the Odds” last singles. I guess that was true for a little while. Actually…what the hell were they thinking? The critically and commercially acclaimed post punk power pop band recorded four albums from 1991 to 1996 and then walked away. They didn’t realize that beautiful things just change and come back in new forms.
Early this year they began writing songs together and doing a show or two. Their pals “Barenaked Ladies” took them out on a rock festival type cruise ship last January and they needed another guitar player to fill out what they’d written. Their friend Murray Atkinson threw his hat in the ring and it all fell together instantly. Their three year-old temporary name “the Craig Northey Power Trio” wouldn’t work anymore. They weren’t the old “Odds” because they now had a new member….they were “the New Odds. It was a stupid name to begin with and now at least it is a different stupid name. Rock band names are stupid.