After over a decade-long hiatus, The Ordinary Boys today make their musical return with brand new single ‘Peer Pressure’ – a superb offering that draws on the Worthing band’s synonymous indie-ska roots and arrives via label Scruff Of The Neck – listen here.
“Peer Pressure is a song about the stories we tell ourselves to rationalise our excesses, and how we ignore the real problems of life in a post AI world with its billionaires and manosphere” explains frontman Samuel Preston. “For our first song back we wanted to make something that sounded like an amalgamation of all the music we love and all The Ordinary Boys songs that we released in the 2000s. We wrote peer pressure as a song that we wanted to hear the crowd singing back to us.”
It’s been 20 years since the band burst onto the scene, delivering iconic albums Over The Counterculture, Brassbound & How To Get Everything In Ten Easy Steps, and spawning Top 10 singles that filled the airwaves in ‘Boys Will Be Boys’, ‘Nine2Five’, ‘Lonely At The Top’ and ‘I Luv U’. 2006 was also the year that saw their landmark Glastonbury performance which included Phil Jupitus joining the band on stage, as well as extensive international touring and chart-topping success.
In March, the band performed live for the first time in over a decade with two sold-out intimate shows at London Strongroom and Worthing’s The Venue, ahead of the band heading out on the road this Spring and Summer alongside Madness as well as performing at a range of summer festivals, including Victorious Festival and Wales’s Together Again Festival.
And as Preston puts quite simply; “It’s so fun to be back playing again and releasing songs.”
UK LIVE DATES
May
23rd – The Ridings Recreational Area, Chipping Sodbury w/ Madness
24th – Darwen Music Live, Darwen
July
24th – Together Again Festival, Chester
August
9th – Outdoor, The Spitfire Ground, Canterbury w/ Madness
15th – Sausage and Cider Festival, Wrexham
28th – Big Feastival, The Cotswolds
29th – Chelmsford Park w/ McFly
29th – Victorious Festival
30th – Coast Fest, South Shields
September
5th – FOMO Fest, Stowmarket
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