Hundred Reasons

Hundred Reasons

Run as you might, you can never escape who you really are. Well, not unless you’re Surrey’s Britrock survivors Hundred Reasons, whose fourth album finds them sounding, variously, like Franz Ferdinand, Idlewild and Super Furry Animals. Strange,...

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Hundred Reasons : Nottingham Rock City

Hundred Reasons : Nottingham Rock City

"Get on your knees for saviors" Hundred Reasons ' curly maned singer Colin Doran bellows on rock juggernaut 'Savannah' during tonight's long-awaited live comeback. This unusually extroverted acknowledgment of Hundred Reasons ' own greatness is...

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Hundred Reasons : Shatterproof Is Not A Challenge

Hundred Reasons : Shatterproof Is Not A Challenge

The world is a very strange place. Barely halfway through their twenties, and Hundred Reasons find themselves, like big sisters who have to wipe the baby's bottom because Mom's drunk, as elders of a family they never knew they were starting. The...

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Hundred Reasons/Snow Patrol : London ICA

Hundred Reasons/Snow Patrol : London ICA

You can’t knock charity. It’s a bit like calling Frank Bruno 'mad' to his face or pointing out to Prince Philip that his wife is a bit of a minger – really not the thing to do. Two years ago, Amnesty International held a comedy charity...

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Hundred Reasons : Norwich University of East Anglia

Hundred Reasons : Norwich University of East...

Does one break a butterfly on a wheel? No? What about a moth then? There are lots of good reasons to like Hundred Reasons . Well, three reasons actually. They've got a stout guitarist for a start. He's not that fat by average bloke standards. But...

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Hundred Reasons : Falter

Hundred Reasons : Falter

Number 87 in the Reasons’ hundred-point plan to bring emo to the masses (following No: 56’s "sound a bit like Fugazi " and 74’s "flaunt thy afro") sees the "boys" grapple with the hitherto rock-unfriendly Epic Ballad. Tunes may still be an...

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Hundred Reasons : Kiewit Pukkelpop Festival

Hundred Reasons : Kiewit Pukkelpop Festival

With a crowd initially more interested in flinging around wet straw than anything happening on stage, they were right to worry. Even Paul's dangerous declaration "if you're not going to dance, then throw mud" elicits no response. So, with Colin...

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Hundred Reasons : Glasgow QMU

Hundred Reasons : Glasgow QMU

Red eyed and raw, Hundred Reasons ' debut album, 'Ideas Above Our Station', makes a solid case for the Surrey-based quintet being the anti- Creed . Because, tonight, their brazenly entertaining, emo-scented spectacle is the perfect antidote to...

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Hundred Reasons : Ideas Above Our Station

Hundred Reasons : Ideas Above Our Station

Taking back what's been stolen. Taking back what is ours. If you were going to be a real petty minded prick you'd say Hundred Reasons sounded a bit like Reef , but for the greater good we'll rise above that. 'Cause here we are. It's 2002 and...

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Hundred Reasons : Silver

Hundred Reasons : Silver

Oh, how the world has shifted on its axis. Like when, exactly, did it become okay to make a record that might remind an innocent passer-by of Metallica 's 'One'? Not to mention- Green Day[/url]. Similarly, what are an ostensibly nice bunch...

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