Hundred Reasons
Winners of the Kerrang Award for Best Album of 2002 - this band arrive on the Radio One stage with prescense that makes you think they should be the main headliners of the whole event. With only one album behind them and a new album in the pipeline you stll manage to think that this band could perform for a whole day without boring the crowd.
They perform an explosive set of Brit-rock. Just 18 months performing to about 2,000 people at the second stage of Ozzfest 2002 they were amazed at this being their largest event. Last summer they played to around 5,000 people early in the morning for the Carling Weekend 2002. Tonight the second stage has about 10,000 people crowded in and spilling out of every exit.
Normally festivals are not the place to try out new music - but somehow the crowd love the new material as much as classics such as "If I Could" and "Falter". The only difference is that when "If I Could" is played all 10,000 people sing every single word to the chorus drowning out the singer. You can only imagine how this band must feel and how much they have achieved in 12 months.
Tonight Hundred Reasons are Reading Festival. They are what Reading is about. They are a band with truely limitless possibilities who one day would be able to quite happily do justice to a dedicated crowd of 80,000 fans on a stadium tour. Hundred Reasons are the most refreshing live act to come out of England so far this decade.