The Preston Dilemma

Credibility is a strange thing. Preston, former frontman of The Ordinary Boys, had it when his band released their proficient ska-punk debut Over The Counter Culture. Lost it with the appaling Brassbound. Heroically tried to side step the entire issue by entering Celebrity Big Brother and going on an arena tour which of course all ended in the end of the band, his marriage although apparently not his record deal.

Which brings us to Dressed To Kill, Sousxie and The Banshees sample aside, there is not a shred of dignity in this song. The pose shots in the video seem almost eye gougingly awful and the song itself is the next in the seemingly never ending factory line of electro pop. BUT it is good, maybe in a 'so bad it's good way' but still it's catchy as hell.

I can't really see a prosperous pop career for Preston purely on the basis that so many people would be happy to see him fail miserably. Yet if he can scrape together a few more tunes along this line, then he might be able to escape from the endeavour with more pride he than he did leaving the Celebrity Big Brother house.