The River is inspired by and a tribute to Pauline Town.

Pauline is the beating heart of We Shall Overcome. Every day, her tireless work feeds over one hundred people, homeless and rough sleeping, and she has helped over a thousand people into safe, secure, permanent accommodation.

At the heart of everything that she does is a raw kindness and down-to-earth humanity: a practical socialism that doesn’t judge but raises a fist of anger at the cruelty of the system while extending the helping hand of solidarity.

If Pauline is the beating heart of We Shall Overcome, then it’s spiritual headquarters is her pub, The Station in Ashton-under-Lyne. Over the course of the pandemic, it has become a community hub and place of safety and refuge.

The Station is re-opening as a pub in May 2022 and costs need to be covered alongside the fundraising for food and shelter, so go and have a pint if you can and chuck a few quid in this digital bucket to help our hero keep doing everything that she does to support people living at the roughest edges of Tory austerity.

www.justgiving.com/crowdfunding/andrew-stanworth-934

The River

From the forthcoming album, Trickle Down Town, released Friday 2 June 2023

Trickle Down Town

Bin Bags

Put Up Shut Up Britain

For all the sabs (and the rest of us too).

The Side of the Fox

Have a Word

Consent as described using the movies of Harrison Ford

Han Solo

Simon Armstrong - Bass & vocals
Russ Chandler - Banjo & vocals
Funky Lol Ross - Mandolin, guitar, melodica, ukulele, keyboard & vocals
Andi Bridges - Drums, percussion, vocals
Steve White - Guitar, harmonica, bouzouki & vocals


QUOTES about Steve White & The Protest Family:

"Constructive political music" - Joe Solo

"I love this song- should be compulsory before every match or at half time. It's a love song, an anthem , a hymn and its ours."
Constanza LOFC Message Board talking about Brisbane Road

"This band may be sick but they are fecking brilliant too" - London Celtic Punks

"All the delicacy of a cornered rat coupled with the fearsome bite of a rabid hyena" - FolkWords

"Very provocative" - Johnny Vegas

"Imagine a traditional English percussion-less folk ensemble, crossed with a 1985 edition of Class War, crossed with a football terrace, crossed with George Orwell, crossed with the most militant end of the British Trade Union movement."
Babyface Thee Faction

"Sex Pistols were pussies, SW & TPF are the REAL SHIT!!!!!!!!!" - Clint Coker

"A superhero......a f*****n by day and an activist singer-songwriter by night" - Paddy Nash, speaking on BBC Radio Ulster

" Steve White & The Protest Family remain the best band on the circuit, and are, without a doubt, the most personable, charming, comradely way of trojan horsing militant messages into unsuspecting audiences....." - Chris Fox

"This is punk folk protest music at its best. Full of rebel spirit and excellent musicianship. Great stuff" - Acoustic Review

"Rough, raw, ragged, rebellious and quite wonderful" - Four Dogs Music

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