IT’S a new era for The Ordinary Boys admits frontman Samuel Preston.

This year marks the tenth anniversary of their debut album Over the Counter Culture, a critically-acclaimed effort full of Morrissey-esque anthems and Clash-style riffs that put the Worthing boys on the map.

Follow-ups Brassbound and How to Get Everything You Ever Wanted in Ten Easy Steps sold well but failed to hit the same notes.

The band went on indefinite hiatus and Preston, now 32, progressed with his song-writing, penning hits for Olly Murs, Chloe Howl and Enrique Iglasias.

Now they are back together and back to their best, with a new addition in Louis Jones from Spectrals.

Tomorrow they return to The Joiners in St Mary Street, a venue that a 14-year-old Preston fell in love with watching pop-punk bands in the late 90s.

“I’ve got pictures of us as a band playing there when we were 12 and 13,” Preston told the Daily Echo.

“One of our first tours was with a Japanese punk band, and The Joiners was kind of like the first ever place we played properly.

“It was the best place to see emo and pop-punk bands in the early 2000s.

“In fact they (The Joiners) just tweeted me to say there is an Ordinary Boys sticker there from the first tour in 2003!”

Preston is back living in Sussex after a stint in the capital and says the move has reinvigorated his passion for music, and being surrounded by his best friends persuaded him to get The Ordinary Boys back together.

He said: “I was doing so much pop music that I had a massive itch to scratch to play the right music I wanted to play, something a bit more raucous and heavy.

“I kind of remembered I had this band that my best friends are in and we all met up.

“I moved to Brighton. It’s good for my work as I didn’t make a huge amount of friends in London. The older you get the other side of 30 the harder it is to make friends.

“I am really excited to fit into a van with your best mates and don’t stop with the private jokes for two weeks.”

The band have been working with the likes of Rory Attwell from the now defunct Test Icicles, Palma Violets, MJ from Hookworms and Ryan Jarman from The Cribs to come up with a heavier sound – one that will excite tonight’s audience.

“We are definitely going to play a lot of stuff from the first album,” Preston added. “A lot of fans want to hear those songs and we enjoy playing them.

“We are going to put a new album out but see how we can go about doing it.”

Tickets for The Ordinary Boys are available at joiners.vticket.co.uk.