There wasn’t a lot going on at the Odds show on Jan. 15 at Average Joes except a whole lot of fun, a whole lot of catchy, bright guitar driven and quirky ’90s style rock and roll, 
courtesy of one of Vancouver‘s finest ’90s bands.
While 
I missed the opening set by the Jesse Roads band, I arrived just in time to catch the Odds’ well crafted , energetic set of hits, hits you forgot they wrote, new music and Corner Gas music.
They front-loaded the first part of their show with most of their best known ’90s chestnuts including the set beginning “Truth Untold,” the singalong “Heterosexual Man,” “It Falls Apart” and “Eat My Brain,” which frontman Craig Northey prefaced by saying it was the new jingle for “the best place to eat in Lethbridge.”
The band featured Northey’s signature voice and the rock solid drumming of Pat Steward, plus bassist Doug Elliott and guitarist/ vocalist Murray Atkinson’s superb vocal harmonies.
They didn’t have a very good sized crowd, but had most of the ones there enthusiastically dancing to the hits and even slow dancing to some of their brand new material off their trilogy of EPs.
“We wanted to cash in on the Lord of the Rings, but there’s nothing about elves on any of the EPs,” Northey quipped on stage.
They played one of their favourites I forgot they wrote “ Satisfied,” and then branched out on a few new songs from the EPs.
They also added a few tracks from the last full length CD “ Cheerleader” including “ Write It In Lightning” and “ Cloud Full of Rocks.”
They saved the Corner Gas material for near the end of the set including “Not A Lot Going On.” Port Moody , B.C. born Northey introduced “ Someone Who Is Cool” by calling it “Port Moody’s theme song”
Then delved back for a couple really early tracks including “King of the Heap,” “ Taking you back to 1991 when a band had to spend all their money on a video.”
They left the stage for that and after lots of applause, they returned, saying you didn’t even have to clap” and played “My Happy Place” to end the show.
