The Ordinary Boys - 'How To Get Everything You Ever Wanted In Ten Easy Steps' (B-Unique) Released 23/10/06

And so beckons the return of The Ordinary Boys, with an album set to prove Preston and co. (who are the others again?) as either musicians with celebrity or celebrities with music to the critics and fans, and demonstrate to a seemingly clueless public whether they ever were any good or not.

The Ordinary Boys journey so far has been far from it, debuting with an album that raised praise from the most unlikely of sources in a certain Stephen Patrick Morrissey, (A.K.A, err... Morrissey), who usually bottles up all the enjoyment he has for Sunday afternoons in front of the corrie omnibus. Unfortunately, they fell to the dreaded 'difficult' second album curse in 'Brassbound', a record displaying none of the punk sensibility of 'Week in, Week out' or the stick of rock up yer arse that was 'Seaside' from their debut, and ended up as an album far too ambitious and bland to stop them becoming labelled as anything other than 'Ordinary'. Nice.

And then he went and spoilt it all by doing something stupid like dumping his French girlfriend, selling himself to the media whore that is C.B.B (you know the acronym!) and marrying the eventual winner, who showed herself to be, albeit a very sweet one, a total wannabe. Now this is where Preston and his bunch of Fred Perry men stand, and you get the feeling that when all the Hello and O.K magazines have being destroyed with the melting of the polar ice caps, this is the album that, like cockroaches, can survive. Or can it?