Best album on NME Albums of 2004 List (Peak Landfill Era?)

Gavin & Stacey seemed to help the career of landfill indie bands. They were always being played on it

Yeah, Preston was on Celebrity Big Brother. The thing was, at the time that he was on Celebrity Big Brother I had not heard one single note of The Ordinary Boys' music. I don't recall any Ordinary Boys tracks being played on nights out, and I don't remember their videos really getting any airplay on MTV2 or whatever. I don't remember much about them, apart from seeing their CD in a rack in a record shop while I was buying something else. I always assumed that Preston having to go on Celebrity Big Brother meant he'd either do anything for five minutes of fame or his band was wank, therefore I needn't bother. When I finally heard an Ordinary Boys track many, many years later, it turned out I was right on both counts. I hadn't missed anything. If Preston hadn't gone on Celebrity Big Brother, his band would have been so incredibly easy to ignore.

The Ordinary Boys had some airplay & hits before CBB . They supported Paul Weller before CBB.

Yeah, but they were being 'shown the door' pretty much, but "Boys will be boys" got back in the chart while he was in, and they got a bit longer to live.

was that a cover of the hit by 'A Bunch Of Wally's' ? ;)

I since found out that The Ordinary Boys were one of those bands that deliberately changed their name/sound/image in order to jump on the bandwagon. They were a hardcore band called Next In Line beforehand.

See also: The Bravery.
See also also: Kaiser Chiefs (formerly Parva)

Also "Modern Romance", three style changes at least.

See also also: Kill The Arcade/Wolf Am I/Brother/Viva Brother/Lovelife

I think a lot of britpop bands had started off in another life too. Like Travis and that Scottish band who did that terrible "smile" song that was a huge hit but started off as a grunge band.

Morrissey was a supporter of The Ordinary Boys for a while (they were named after one of his songs), put them on a compilation he made but after Big Brother he seemed to change his mind.

Gavin & Stacey seemed to help the career of landfill indie bands. They were always being played on it

Benchmark set in very first episode

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b007j8w4/segments

Landfill comedy with landfill actors