Plan B 'continuing Strickland character'

Plan B has revealed that he will continue writing songs for his Strickland Banks character.

The singer said that he will carry on the story of Banks - who is thrown in jail for a crime he didn't commit - despite previously insisting that he was keen to 'retire' him.

“I want to do Strickland Banks's Greatest Hits - the songs that made him famous," he told the Daily Star.

"'Make Me Your Religion', which I played at the iTunes Festival in London, is for that. There’s a handful of other songs that I wrote after the album came out in a similar vein. They don't tell Strickland’s story, but they sound like his songs.

"I'll repack them with Defamation but I don't think I'll do a whole new separate album about Strickland again. I want to keep moving on."

The 'She Said' star, real name Ben Drew, also admitted that he prefers writing made-up stories to songs about his life.

He added: "Real life is boring. I wonder what people get out of Kerry Katona and Jordan's books. The same goes for me. What would people get out of reading my life story?"

The repackaged edition of The Defamation Of Strickland Banks is due out later this year.

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