Fun 100

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Fun 100
Image:Fun100.jpg Left to right: Steve Matheson, Marc Boucher, Ryan Dyck, Bruce Dyck, Adam Fothergill
Origin	Abbotsford, British Columbia
Country	Canada
Years active	2000 - present
Genres	Indie Rock Pop Punk
Members	Ryan Dyck Bruce Dyck Adam Fothergill Marc Boucher Steve Matheson
Past members	Nathan Rothenburger Robin Price Mark Jaholkowski
Website(s)	Fun-100.com

Fun 100 are a Canadian indie rock band from Abbotsford, British Columbia. They formed on the first day of the year 2000. They now mostly play in and around Vancouver, and have gone on two tours across Canada.

The band's name came from a roll of stickers that said FUN 100 on them. Since they already had the stickers, they decided to go with the name for their band.

1 Influences
2 Charts, awards, and coverage
3 Band members in other projects
4 Discography
5 Band members
6 Former members
7 External links

[edit] Influences

Fun 100's songs often feature references to early 1990's pop culture, with subjects from Michael Moore's film Roger and Me, television programs like Full House, to family films including The Mighty Ducks and Home Alone 2. Other influences and inspirations include the 1993/94 Vancouver Canucks, 1910 Fruitgum Company, Devo, the Pointed Sticks, Gary Numan, Japanese Pop Music, moog records from thrift stores and nostalgic pop punk in general.

[edit] Charts, awards, and coverage

Fun 100 frequents college charts in Canada. Besides being number one on UBC's CITR, Kamloops' CFBX, Lethbridge's CKXU and Waterloo's CKMS, Fun 100 has charted on over a dozen campus/community radio stations across Canada. More importantly, Fun 100 spent time in the top 50 on both major Canadian campus radio charts, Chart (reached #21 in December 2005) [1] and Earshot (#46 in November 2005) [2].

Fun 100 has been featured in articles in several music publications including Terminal City [3] and Discorder as well as CBC Radio 3's regular broadcast, website, podcast and satellite radio show. Positive reviews of the band have appeared in Vice Magazine, Maximum Rock n Roll, HeartattaCk, and the Nerve.

Fun 100's song "Computer" has been ranked as the 65th best song of 2005 by CBC Radio 3 [4]. The band has since received much criticism for neglecting to play it live.

[edit] Band members in other projects

Several members have or are in other musical projects. Steve Matheson was a member of The.WPP, Target, Burden and The Seams and currently plays in Ghost House with Jesse Gander of DBS. Marc Boucher was the mind behind Andrew Squared as well as a back-up vocalist for the contemporary alternative pop band Manoah. Bruce Dyck was the original drummer of You Say Party! We Say Die! and has put in time with Raised by Wolves, The Temper Tantrums, and others, while Adam Fothergill is in the two-piece Title Shot with Jonny Hughes of Cran, STICKS, and The Hand, as well as L'ananas, which also features Jason Nicholas, formerly of You Say Party! We Say Die! Adam has also played with You Say Party! We Say Die! and Raised by Wolves on occasion.