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Surrey-based rock outfit HUNDRED REASONS finally ended much speculation following a massive amount of A&R interest when they penned a worldwide recording deal with Columbia Records in mid-April 2001. What most people don’t know about is the 14 months of touring, working and rehearsing it took to get them there.

January 2000 saw HR in a familiar situation to anyone who’s just started out in a new band. Their equipment was temperamental, their bank balances were in the red and they were unsigned. Each member was a reluctant employee with a ‘get you by’ job to make the rent and pay for rehearsals. Prior to the end of 1999, HR members had existed in two different guises, namely Jetpak and Floor. Both bands shared the same management and drifted around their local scene, gaining notoriety amongst those who knew about them but not much else. Both bands eventually crumbled and Hundred Reasons was the outcome, their name taken from a poster at the extreme sports company w...