EPEEAREA ATW PRE VEL IS EATEN RAO BE EF TIS FLL MEIM REL PAUNUN a ELE Gate LIEN ARNIS OE LU, EEE LPT & 7 Tour with Hip brings many new fans to local group THE ODDS’ latest disc Good Weird Feeling is flat-out rip- ping pop of the first order. By Michael Becker Music Reporter : The Vancouver band is currently “touring with the Tragically Hip. Odds — singer-guitarist. Craig Northey (North Vancouver’s own) was on line from Ontario earlier this week, : Michael: How’s the tour going with Tragically Hip? Craig: “Oh it's heaven, we're all friends..and we've got big, full venues. We started in Moncton and we're playing 5,000 to 18,000 (capacity) venues.” Michael: How are the Hip crowds accepting you? Craig: ‘They're pretty nice to us. We road tested it (the show) a cou- ple of times before we did this tour.” . Michael: Do you stii! play togeth- er as Dawn Patrol sometimes? Craig: “Regularly at. around Christmas time for. food-bankish things we play at the Roxy and we - did it again this year.” Michael: Do. you rekindle. some ._pre-Odds freedom in that guise? Craig: “It's kind of like letting a. - good wrestler be in the WWF for a while.’ We're allowed to be com- pletely vulgar and in disguise,.so if someone wants to dump us after the a show, they. can’t find us because we’ve got the wigs on. It s low high- brow humor.” _ Michael: There’ seems to be an '. intrinsic Qdds’ sound. that has ‘remained consistent over the course of your three CDs. Do you ‘personally see a progression with |. the band? Ae Naitg oe A PHOTO submitted THE ODDS are riding high with a fine new release, Good Weird Feeling. cheese. She was a friend of ours since we asked her to do the mixing on Neopolitan. We just kept think- ing that she would be able to under- stand what we wanted at this point and be able to put her nose in and out of the door at the right times. We also wanted someone on ths, record- ing Noor who could translate what was in’our minds. With Susan you could pretty much guarantee that she was getting the sound.” THE CURRENT issue of Sports Mlustrated (Feb. 13) offers a behind-the-visor look at North Vancouver's hockey phenom Paul Kariya. Writer Leigh Montville gushes about Kariya’s squeaky-clean image: “With a $6.5 million contract for the next three years, (Kariya) has landed in the home of a pediatrician and his wife and their kids instead of in the nearest Lamborghini show- room. Stop the tabloid presses. Disney (the owner of the Mighty Ducks) has found its G-rated man.” ~- Andrew McCredie UNDER NEW ‘MANAGEMENT Craig:'“We ‘all have an idea of {f - how: we -want ‘things to sound, Sometimes it’s half explainable and ‘sometimes it’s inexplicable. One of “the ‘challenges ‘is how to find out “how to articulate the sound. When “you can do that, it’all starts to just ‘fall ‘into. place —- ‘those are the . words Ineed there, or I’ve‘ spent some time with the musical dictio- “mary and I’m able to explain a sec- tion to Steve (singer-guitarist Steven Drake) © or Pat’. (drummer: Pat /Steward),’ So we produce ourselves . for the most part.” We've now. got a little more of that under. our belt and at the same ‘time as a band, the natural evolution is not something you quite pick, it ‘just happens by: playing all of the ~ time. '. “With those two factors put together. there is sort of an organic change.” Michael: Is Nigel’ the Cat, the “ gredited producer of Good Weird Feeling, you guys? Craig: “Well he’s actually my cat, but it is a name for our produc- tion team.” », Michael: “I guess you didn’t lave, : Nigel: and .Gina (disc engineer . Susan Roger’s dog whose grow is “ sampled: -. for the track » Sutokescreen) in the studio at the “same time? “Craig: “Well actually they goi: ‘along alright. Nigel is pretty intense. but Gina is a sensitive new- age kind . of a dog.” Michael: tribute to the sound on your lat- ‘ “est? : Craig: “She was the cheese that “held the casserole. together. 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