The Northern Pikes & the Odds at District Wine Village

2 FULL PERFORMANCES | 2 GREAT BANDS | ONE GREAT NIGHT

Date | Thursday, August 14th, 2025
Time | Patio & Club Member Ticket Holders doors open at 5pm 
General Admission doors open at 6pm 
This is a 19+ Concert 

Odds hit the stage at approx. 7pm. 
The Northern Pikes hit the stage at approx. 9:00pm 

The Northern Pikes are one of a handful of acts that have a permanent footprint on the psyche of generations of Canadian rock and pop fans. Since first forming in Saskatoon in 1984, the group has had one platinum album with 1990’s Snow in June, four gold LPs, and eight hit singles that remain mainstays across the country.

Its latest album, TIME to TIME, released June 9, 2023 across all digital platforms, and on LP and CD, finds the band taking a step back to reflect on and revisit the best-loved tracks from Snow in June. The Pikes have stripped the songs down to their essentials and created fresh acoustic arrangements of “Dream Away,” “Love These Hands,” “Kiss Me You Fool,” “She Ain't Pretty,” “Green Fields,” “Girl With a Problem,” and the title track. They’ve also included three new songs that seamlessly fit into flow with “Only a Lover's Dream,” “The Things You Saw in Me,” and “Taken.” All of the tunes feature The Pikes’ core trademarks, including gorgeous vocal harmonies, pulsing basslines, lush and piercing guitar, and kinetic, creative drumming.

The band’s lineup includes vocalist and bassist Jay Semko, vocalist and lead guitarist Bryan Potvin, and drummer Don Schmid, who’ve been together as a working unit, on and off, since 1986. It also features vocalist and guitarist Kevin Kane, co-founder of the iconic Grapes of Wrath, who joined as a full-time member in 2017. In addition, the recording includes guest appearances from violinist Donald MacLennan and keyboardist Glenn Patscha.

The original intention was to have TIME to TIME released to correspond with the 30th anniversary of Snow in June in 2020. The band began sessions in October 2019 and planned to continue in spring 2020, but the COVID-19 pandemic left it unable to reconvene face-to-face until September 2021. At that point, The Pikes were finally able to spend several further weeks recording and mixing the album, together with co-producer John D.S. Adams, at Stonehouse Sound in Mahone Bay, NS.

Odds were born out of the 1987 Vancouver music scene and made their mark with the Zoo/BMG album "Neopolitan" in 1991. Warren Zevon ended up with a copy and recognized a kindred spirit - taking Odds on the road as his opening act and backing band. Black humourists, Stax fans and power-pop purveyors, Odds released three more critically-acclaimed albums Bedbugs, Good Weird Feeling and Nest before taking a hiatus. Their albums had broken through and achieved platinum status in their native Canada, along with 6 JUNO nominations, several top 10s, and a few top 40 hits in the USA and around the world. Songs you may recognize include: "It Falls Apart", "Eat My Brain", “Make You Mad”, “”Nothing Beautiful”, “Heterosexual Man" and "Someone Who's Cool" and the theme song to Canada’s most successful comedy series Corner Gas -“Not A Lot Going On”. The band returned in 2008 with Cheerleader, featuring the single “My Happy Place” (Corner Gas outro). The band was named the Vancouver Canucks 'house band' of the 2010 and 2011 NHL playoffs and at Canada Hockey House during the 2010 Olympics. Odds performed the theme music to the CBC/IFC television series The Kids in the Hall: Death Comes to Town.

Three EP’s of new Odds music were released in 2013-14 and later collated as their next album “Universal Remote”. In 2023 Odds reached a high water mark with their newest album “Crash the Time Machine”.