The Ordinarys

Not every band made it to the making of a single stage and let’s face it some probably shouldn’t have! Despite that they all have a story to tell and here’s The Ordinarys one courtesy of long-time contributor to the site Steve Phypers.

“The band I played drums for was called ‘The Ordinarys’ 1976-’79. The band’s name came from a New Hearts song called ‘Here Come The Ordinaries‘. Steve our singer knew Ian Page (later Secret Affair) and we’d go to see NHt’s whenever we could. Much later, NHt’s bass player, John Harty, joined The Ordinarys just before we burnt out! We all came from Hoddesdon in Hertfordshire except for the singer who came from Waltham Cross, Herts.

Don’t laugh, no… actually, do laugh! The Ordinarys appeared on ATV Televisions ‘New Faces’ in February 1978. Yeah I know, cringe, big mistake I always thought, anyway…We played an original song called ‘I Wanna Be An Ordinary’, Micky Most loved it!!!  but without decent management at the time, a follow-up didn’t materialise.

Massive local following, hundreds turned up to our gigs, great crack really. Including The Lyceum, London (sold out) 8th March 1978 .

The big numbers in the set, later recorded at Morgan Studios in Willesden, were ‘I Wanna Be An Ordinary’, ‘I Never Knew’ and ‘Get Me Up’.”

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