There’s a particular breed of British protest music that refuses to die quietly, despite every attempt by algorithms and streaming platforms to suffocate it with playlists and bite-sized consumption. Steve White & The Protest Family’s Evidence-Based Punk Rock belongs to this stubborn lineage, standing defiantly at the crossroads where Billy Bragg’s righteous fury meets the Manic Street Preachers’ conceptual ambition.
What ultimately elevates Evidence-Based Punk Rock above mere agitprop is its refusal to wallow in despair. The press release’s declaration that “things might be grim, but better world is possible” isn’t just marketing copy—it’s the album’s beating heart. In an era where cynicism masquerades as sophistication, there’s something genuinely punk about maintaining hope while clear-eyed about the obstacles.
Steve White & The Protest Family’s latest LP, ‘Evidence-Based Punk Rock,’ is an album that needs to be heard by the masses. It’s rich with subgenres, political commentary, and conversations that we need to address not just as individuals but as a collective. At the end of the day, Punk was created to shock the system, and this Album did a job well done.
They’re hanging flags on the lampposts of Breaking Britain They’re painting the roundabouts red The concerned mums of Epping are lighting fires While Bobby’s on the beach winding up their suppliers They’re kicking the refugees out of The Bell Next thing they’ll wanna kick you out as well They’re breaking Britain They’re breaking Britain
A oner gets you Farage on a football shirt But the flag is flying upside down Nicky did a Trump dance and a fascist salute He’s off to Liverpool in a too small suit Anti-immigrant poison is what they sell Next thing they’ll wanna poison you as well They’re breaking Britain They’re breaking Britain
They’re breaking Britain with division They’re breaking Britain with derision They’re breaking Britain with hate for a scapegoat mate And making a pretty penny while they’re at it too They’re breaking Britain They’re breaking Britain
While Both Sides Sheila argues both sides Not all nazis are nazis she opines Not sure I’d want asylum seekers down my street She’s down with the othering of not like me And the high street is some lawless kind of hell Next thing the law will come for you as well They’re breaking Britain They’re breaking Britain
Kier looking on without a clue, he’s breaking Britain Rachel in the wings without a penny for you, she’s breaking Britain Kemi trying to be the baddest of the bad, she’s breaking Britain Nigel the worst MP Clacton ever had, he’s breaking Britain He’s breaking Britain
They’re breaking Britain with division They’re breaking Britain with derision They’re breaking Britain with hate for a scapegoat mate And making a pretty penny while they’re at it too They’re breaking Britain They’re breaking Britain They’re breaking Britain They’re breaking Britain
Pre-orders of the album will open on Bandcamp this coming Friday (8 August) which will coincide nicely with Attila The Stockbroker’s latest column in the Morning Star. Pre-orders will come with an immediate download/stream of Oh, Noah.
The album will be released on Friday 5 September when everyone who has pre-ordered will get a download link for the whole album and CD’s will start hitting doormats.
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.
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?
Steve White & The Protest Family 