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Hundred Reasons/Rival Schools: Tough Crowd Meets Boring Band

I've never seen a band try to so hard to induce a state of drowsiness or sleepiness in the audience and succeed!
10 maart 2002, Melkweg, Amsterdam (NL)

Tekst: Tessa Halm

Publicatiedatum: 28 maart 2002

Tonight's opening act is Hundred Reasons. With their first song these guys from England explode onto the stage, and singer Colin bounces and jumps around as if his life depends on it. This guy's energy is really something else, considering the band gets about zero response from the crowd.
Colin looks as if he came to us straight from the seventies, with his sort-of-Afro hairdo and huge sideburns, but the music Hundred Reasons make has nothing to do with that era. It's rock 'n' roll, that's for sure, but these days it's called emo-core. With emo, it seems it's not that important whether the singer can actually sing. In this case, the music is good, and the band is having so much fun onstage that we can overlook the poor vocal quality. As the band kicks in, playing 'If I Could', their current single, a small part of the audience actually reacts and starts to move. This encourages the bassist to start some jumping action too, and to really get into the song. But, as singer Colin literally points out, it's a "tough crowd" at the Melkweg tonight, and the band is probably glad to leave the stage after about 35 minutes.
When the main act, Rival Schools, starts their part of the show, suddenly the reason for the crowd's apathy during Hundred Reasons' gig becomes clear. If Rival Schools is the main reason for the crowd being here, then of course they wouldn't appreciate the energetic and powerful music Hundred Reasons produce: It's so hugely different from the music the main act makes. Rival Schools is dull. Boring, even. I'll go one step further and say I've never seen a band try to so hard to induce a state of drowsiness or sleepiness in the audience and succeed! Well, at least in the case of this reporter.
After enduring five songs and having more than enough of the music droning on, I decide it's time to leave. While retrieving my coat from the cloakroom I hear one of the employees telling the other that this band sucks. And he's right.

http://www.kindamuzik.net/live/rival-schools/hundred-reasons-rival-schools-tough-crowd-meets-boring-band/1426/
Meer Rival Schools op KindaMuzik: http://www.kindamuzik.net/artiest/rival-schools