Does This Man Look "Punk Rock" To You?

There are a lot of phrases I might use to describe Preston from the Ordinary Boys ("Pretty Boy", "Unable to Play More Than Two Chords of Any Song When Given a Guitar on Celebrity Big Brother", "That Poor Idiot Who Broke Up With His Fiancee to Date Chantelle, One of the Least Attractive Women I Have Ever Seen"), but "Punk Rock" is not one of them. Yet, despite his shenanigans in the Celebrity Big Brother house and his now regular appearances in the glossy tabloids, Preston still sees himself as a punk rocker at heart. Indeed, so much so that he has felt the need to repeatedly make the point in practically every interview he has given since finishing fourth on the programme.

Consider the following selection of recent Preston quips:

"We've always had this punk rock attitude and going on Big Brother was me thinking let's do something outrageous and take a big risk."

"We're always going to be a punk rock band."

"When we plug in and turn up to 11, it's still going to be punk rock."

Bit sensitive on this point, eh Preston?

To further prove he's still down with the kids, Preston is also said to be making a guest appearance in an upcoming new video from The Streets. Apparently he and Mike Skinner recently met and hit it off like the proverbial house on fire.

Finally, Preston is looking ahead to the next Ordinary Boys album. Given his insistence that the band will always be "punk rock", you might be expecting something along the lines of Never Mind the Bollocks or Sandinista!, but alas you would be mistaken. Instead, says Preston, the band's main inspiration for album three will be The Kinks country/folk classic Muswell Hillbillies.

Now that's what I call turning it up to 11.