“…it’s an absolute tour de force.” Attila The Stockbroker reviews Evidence-Based Punk Rock

I got a new one [CD player] to listen to Evidence Based Punk Rock, the new Steve White & the Protest Family album, and it is worth the money on its own: it’s an absolute tour de force. They’re another great example of genre-fluidity — think Chas n Dave meets the Tom Robinson Band with a magnificently militant Ian Duryish manic street preacher on lead vocals. Hearty singalongs interspersed with Steve’s sharp, witty performance poetry: an incredibly incisive, thoroughly enjoyable CD which sums up our battered country in 2025 to a T. Definitely my album of the year so far.

Read Attila’s full review in the Morning Star.

Evidence-Based Punk Rock

Coming soon!

The cover art is based on Steve’s songwriting notebook and the CD version of the album knits the songs together into consistent narrative with sounds and poems. Yes, Evidence-Based Punk Rock (or evidence-based punk rock, depending on whether you’re listening to the CD or the download/streaming version) is nearly here.

We’ll be announcing a release date soon but first we need to get the word out there. So, if you can help us out with a review/radio play/podcast/interview/etc., please give us a shout.

2024 in Thumbnails

This year saw a song about the floods (there’s going to be more of those, I’m sure), Greene King brewery exposed, Noah as a metaphor for Daily Mail-reading middle-England’s attitude to refugees, the unluckiest street in the UK, a love song based in a factory making weapons being used to destroy Gaza, two new additions to the Put Up Shut Up Britain collection, a song about loss, your actual five-a-day, another in the collection of St. George’s Day songs, another one about your diet, a Protest Family single, kicking out your kitchen fitters, a weather forecast for the east coast, yet another song inspired by Nick Ferrari on LBC, the follow-up to Pricks In Space, Hans Christian Anderson for the modern era, the first protest song to feature Rachel Reeves as Chancellor of the Exchequer, an attempt to expose election fraud by committing election fraud, mousetraps used to try to explain how global asset managers and index funds work, and a song that started life over a failed vegan breakfast in a Wetherspoons in Stourbridge on Remembrance Sunday.

We plan to release a new album next year. Which ones do you reckon will make the cut?

Brisbane Road

Like a newly refurbished East Stand cautiously avoiding talk of a stadium move, we present our brand new, PA upgrade-ready, version of Brisbane Road, complete with drums and updated lyrics, which you can stream on Spotify from today.

We are working on a limited edition 7″ vinyl release, more news on that when we have it, but for now stream away, and Up The O’s!

Not a Damn Thing

Words, music and film by Steve White & The Protest Family
Recorded and mixed by Ben Spence at Fuzzbrain Studios, Walthamstow
Mastered by Steve Honest

An Interview With Aldora Britain Records

I am increasingly angry, frustrated, and depressed … How we as a society
tolerate excruciatingly rich people getting even richer while people sleep on
the streets or have to choose between eating or being warm, I’ll never know.

Read the full interview here.