22/01/2010 : Happy Birthday To Us! A Competition, A Sale, A Memory
Believe it or not, it's ten years ago today that HR played their first proper show - 22nd January 2000 at The Peel in Kingston, supporting Spy Versus Spy. Unforgettable for loads of reasons - 300+ people showed up to see 4 totally underground, unsigned bands; Ashley Bird (soon to be editor) of Kerrang! came all the way out to Kingston; it was my birthday show, so the date was easy to remember.
We gave three homemade HR CDRs out that night. One was to Ash, another to Dan P Carter (who was in 'A' at the time) and I can't for the life of me remember who got the third, it may have been tank - excellent choices, anyway. They were the only demos we ever made - two months or so later, HR were in Kerrang! and supporting Kittie at The Garage.
Nuts to think that was before camera phones and digital cameras and suchlike... My photos from that show are lost in the ether (but if you have some PLEASE email - info@hundredreasons.com - because I'd love to see them) so here's a shot from the very first photo shoot HR ever did, spring 2000.
So there we are. We are ten. LET'S CELEBRATE!
* Firstly, the splendid folk of Atticus have produced a compilation. It's called, fittingly, "Atticus Presents Vol 1" and alongside HR it includes Biffy, Gallows, Rival Schools, Get Up Kids and loads more! You can click to read more and to buy online.
We have FIVE COPIES TO GIVE AWAY along with some Atticus logo shirts. Lovely! Enter our birthday competition by answering this teaser:
Atticus Clothing was founded by members of which band?
Send your answers to info@hundredreasons.com by 5th February. Winners will be picked at random and we'll email to let you know if you've got lucky.
* Secondly, oh my goodness we're having a WEEKEND MERCH MEGA SALE! Starts now, finishes Sunday, 24 Jan.
To mark TEN years of rock, you can get TEN items of merch for TEN pounds! There are only five of these sets available, so don't delay.
There are also huge reductions on other shirts - prices start from just £2!
Thanks for making it to the bottom of this epic post, but most of all thanks for listening. We're lucky to have you.
jane / H*R
16/11/2009 : That Was The Tour That Was
and that's how to finish one! Massive thank yous to Canterbury and Scholars for being brilliant and most of all THANK YOU if you came to a show, hope you enjoyed it as much as we did.
