I’m happy to announce I’ll be composing the score for “the Corner Gas Movie”. The original cast are all back and the movie will be out in December. It’s all happening now. I had a great time in Rouleau Saskatchewan…
Scotty Hard and I are currently composing for the film “Being Canadian”. Rob Cohen is a noted screen writer for such comedy masterpieces and the Simpsons, SNL and the Ben Stiller Show. He and his compatriots have crafted a documentary…
I’ll be sharing the stage with Adam Levy at Rockwood Music Hall in New York on Nov 22nd. We’ll play some songs together, some surprise covers and fiddle around on our own as well. It’s recommended to get advance tickets…
Free concert at sunset in John Lawson Park. What could be better. C’mon out. Bring the family. Bring the motorcycle gang. Bring an entire wedding party. http://harmonyarts.ca/liam-titcomb/
Spent the day deep down into the dissection of Beatles songs. I’m up to my elbows in singing harmonies “on the 3rd of the scale” and using my “nose voice”. A mountain of charts and mp3’s have arrived from Andrew…
I’m still effected by last week’s passing of Donald “Duck” Dunn. He was an archetypal bass player and one of my faves – Dunn, Jamerson, McCartney, George Porter Jr . Seems like an even deeper loss than with regular heroes….
You may even read this before the National Post publishes it. Here’s My unedited version of today’s diary. Here I am in the middle of rehearsals for the upcoming Art of Time Ensemble Sgt.Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club celebration. Digging into…
Here’s the unedited version of Thursday’s National Post Diary Today was day one of rehearsals for the Art of Time’s re-imagining of Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band. The musical structures have only been changed enough to illustrate how amazing…
Hi all, I have been writing a diary for the National Post this week. They asked me for 150 words a pop but gave me examples that were 350 to 400. I split the difference. In the end the cut…
This should be fun. Steven Page, John Mann, Andy Maize and I will be the vocalists fronting the talented and inventive “Art of Time Ensemble” at the Enwave Theatre in Toronto May 31 to Jun 2nd. It’s the 45th anniversary of…
Yes! Dog of Thunder’s adopted hockey squad won the championship last night in a tight checking 2-1 affair with the North Shore Lucky Legs. In this pic you can see me (Craig) 2nd from left in the front row. In…
Sam Thom has put up some video and photos of our friend Steven Page and I in Victoria a couple of weeks ago. He does call me “Marley” at one point in his text but that’s OK…I love Bob Marley…
Hi All, The tour has been a blast. Victoria on Wednesday. Here’s a good picture Shawn Morgan took at the North Vancouver show. This was the first time I could walk home from a gig in many years and have…
Packing my bags right now for my upcoming string of shows with Steven Page. As the great Brad Delp of Boston sang, “gettin’ crazy anticipatin’ love and music”. This is the schedule. It’s the first time we’ve performed together since…
Hi everyone. The date of the website launch will be easy to remember. My 50th birthday. I’m not sure why I’ll have to remember the exact date of the launch but frequently I am asked to summon information that I…
Not only do Steven and I have a new song out on his “A Different Sort of Solitude” EP stevenpage.bandcamp.com/track/manchild we will also hit the road together with two acoustic guitars for select dates this March. Go to www.stevenpage.com and…
Toronto’s Art of Time Ensemble www.artoftimeensemble.com/pastperformances.html do amazing string orchestra arrangements of pop music. They’ve made albums and performed shows with Sarah Slean, Steven Page, Melanie Doane etc. They’ve asked me to be part of their re-working of the Sgt.Pepper…
Colin James is going to be coming out with a fresh new album in a few months. He switched back to his old label EMI and he teamed up with our old pal Joe Hardy (see: Fuse) to make the…
Hi everybody. The “Dog of Thunder” website is coming along. I’ve been busy and have neglected my duties as the steward of my namesake dot com. There have been births and deaths, brilliant victories and catastrophes that have all gone…
We Odds and all our extended family loved Mike Norman very much and we will hear his laugh always when the right wrong joke is told. See you in the sky Mikey. http://www.mikenorman.com/
Bob and I are doing a house concert. It has come to my attention that they can squeeze a couple more people in so I am letting you know that it in in Victoria BC this saturday August 21st email…
Fandango is just one of those words. It works in all languages. I imagine flames and speed and delicious food. As it rolls off the tongue you imagine yourself as being able to speak Spanish and how much sexier you…
It is with a heavy heart that I ask you all to raise a glass for Dan Achen. Dan was a good man and solid chum who went to the next realm doing something he loved to do. http://www.chartattack.com/news/80240/ten-reasons-dan-achen-was-cool
What happened to this site you say? Why doth he forsake it? Well…I’ve been pretty busy with Odds stuff and that ends up over there on that page and then this Twitter thing got invented and I find it easier…
And you guys all thought I was an atheist. Someone put a name on it and that’s what I am.
oh yes…at the Westin at 9 pm. Sort of secret show. We’re running the play. “A Good Weird Story”. If you like a good yarn and some rock n roll…come down. Ticket master has a few tickets.
Hi all, Odds will be performing on top of the English Bay Bathouse (south foot of Denman in the West End) @ 8pm as part of the HSBC Celebration of Light. It’s China’s night to compete in the fireworks competition…
Usually our blogs are fairly abstract but I will be straight with you…I think we may have entered the realm of musical theatre. I guess that is not so straight. We wrote a “play” of sorts that involves an Odds…
Tonight at the Port Theatre in Nanaimo. “Odds: In a Good Weird Story”. It’s the first night of our “play”. There are movies and pictures and some good laughs. Saturday at the Cowichan Theatre in Duncan. Sunday at the Tidemark…
I wrote this for Glenn Anderson’s glennsglobalgames.com site I first met Glenn Anderson at a late night party in Toronto on March 20th 1994. He probably wouldn
We couldn’t go 6 seasons without being allowed to appear on our favourite show. The brilliant writers found a way to write us geeks into an episode. February 9th on CTV in Canada. We don’t know when it airs in…
HI all. I know the site is extremely stale and that I never post gigs. Working on changing my ways. I’m currently in Ottawa tonight with the little duo thing I do with Colin James….Centrepointe Theatre in Nepean. Odds will…
I know I know…I will do something about it soon…but while we’re at it Hello all you surfers and skippers. We..’ve put up two new ..’unreleased..’ songs on the myspace page. They are cover versions of great songs we loved…
Sometimes I write because I have the time and then I just see what comes out. Other times I am compelled by an idea. Generally I don
I haven’t updated here in awhile but I promise I haven’t been idle. See below! I hope to see a lot more of you all this year. MapleCore and Kim Cooke hook up to launch Pheromone Recordings with the release…
What holiday? I’m a musician. Hope you are all snug in your beds and rolling around in gingerbread crumbs. Renewing bonds and enjoying each other…that is the way it should be. Gift ideas: Go to theWorldvision site and see what…
Dr.Dolittle could talk to the animals and that might be every child’s dream. Why was that just doing little? It was a 10-minute walk to the park. Through the mountainous gray chicken coops and corridors of exhaust in the West…
It was easier for the man to see the city on foot. He got his exercise and threaded his way through the hustle and flow of the city. There is no better way to connect. Halifax harbour was vivid and…
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Things I’m up to: – The show with Jeremy Fisher @ the Commodore was so much fun for everyone that Pat Steward & I have been asked to do more of the same. There is some clandestine footage at this…
I’ve put up my blanket gig schedule in the “performances” section. The fall looks varied and exciting. I thought I’d give you a “heads-up” bulletin for this week. June 21, 2007 – Jeremy Fisher @ the Commodore I will be…
Dirty creatures. Wasps, ants, cockroaches, and rats. Stinging nettles, poison ivy, bracken and milfoil. Mudshark, bullhead, leach, jellyfish and the red tide. Rub you the wrong way. Other species key in on you. Rat steals the starling’s egg and scurries…
The matted old cat has cancer. Four years past his fighting form there is less drama. At 17 he sleeps a lot, shits and pisses where he wants and smells a little like a teenager’s room. He no longer has…
Baffled by musicals. Breaking from dialog into narrative song. Barely supporting a bizarre and oversimplified plot line. Opera cooked up in a garage meth lab by sentimental scientists already stoned on the fumes. All glitter and clich
Had to get over out of the house fast. The dog wanted to go with me. She always does. There was a cup of coffee in my hand and it was in a nice cup. I guess you could call…
Long time no clicky clacky of keys. Here is a really unimaginative diary style info newsletter. I much prefer to go outside but I figured I better let people know what was up. Doug Elliott, Pat Steward and I have…
The rain fell this hard for a reason. It ground down on us to say,
OK I know. I have been busy with home life and writing a record with my pals. I have a lot of pals but I guess these are the original pals. Pat Steward, Doug Elliott and I are almost ready…
I found this today and ejoyed it a lot. Tought I’d share it. It was by a gentleman using the handle “silverjew” and it was a review of the Odds album “Bedbugs”. I tried to write to him but just…
I’m Sorry teacher. There was nothing exciting happening in the traditional sense of the words “exciting happening”. I left the internet alone for a while because it was busy with so many other people and didn’t notice that I left….
Hi everybody. One of those interesting cul de sacs of my weird career. I will be performing, with the others in Sharkskin (no Pat Steward but the great Shawn Soucy on drums), as part of Cheech Marin’s band for his…
If you go over to my myspace site I’ve put up a live board tape of “Old Mistakes” recorded at the Glossie awards in 2005. This is a fake movie awards show held at the Commodore Ballroom in conjunction with…
The Minister of Canadian Heritage invites you to join the Prime Minister, the Governor General, and thousands of fellow Canadians for a fun and lively street party on Parliament Hill. Join the fun from Noon to 1:30 pm on Saturday…
Tim Der has put some cherished moments from CBC’s “Hockeyville” up on his Odds site. Stripper’s Union. Shaye. Pat’s happy leprechaun dance. click here Thanks Tim. Lyric changes to “Shake it Off” were inspired by Brent Butt. You can catch…
Here’s a link to an interview I did for Inside Home Recording. I hope you audio geeks get something out of it:
Strippers Union will perform “Shake It Off (Walking With the King of Funk)” on CBC’s Hockeyville, Sunday June 11th. This is the final episode. “Shaye” will also be there to perform a song written by CN with the “Hounds of…
Sorry everyone. Three things happened to bring down my site for awhile. 1. Sabotage at the hands of spammers who attack the comments sections of sites and fill them up with porn. 2. Massive downloads of the picture of Rob…
Jesse & I wrote this while we were out on that little tour. I took it from his myspace page. Today is Pat Stewrad’s birthday: Poughkeepsie,New York Current mood: accomplished Hey Everybody, We just finished this sweet little tour. Craig,…
We had a little birthday show in Kingston Ontario for our fearless leader R. Baker. It wasn’t well publicized because we all know what happened to the Who in Cincinnati. Wouldn’t want that to happen as throngs rushed madly into…
Dave Chappelle said, and I paraphrase because I saw in on
