Once upon a time, West Midlands street punk 4 piece Wolf Bites Boy (https://www.facebook.com/wbboi/) were a regular fixture on Just Some Punk Songs. Their 2015 album, Family Isn't Always Blood, was my favourite lp of that year and they followed it up with splits with Aggro Culture, Fibonattis and Seaside Rebels which whilst in my opinion not quite reaching the heights of Family were still perfectly decent additions to their discography. Their last release was an album titled The Story So Far which mixed new material and live studio session versions of old favourites but it's been a long wait for a new record by them. Occasionally they'll pop up with an appearance on a compilation such as this https://8uprecords.bandcamp.com/track/wolf-bites-boy-bang-to-rise but on the whole they've been quiet. I asked frontman Stuart Marsden recently why the long wait and from what he said I think it's just a question of waiting till they have something ready that they're happy with but hopefully they'll be back all guns blazing once the current pandemic dies down a bit.
To keep us going till then, they've just made another one of those compilation appearances on an impressive 40 track benefit titled Give Sweatshops the Boot Vol.1. Since the launch in May 2019 of Punks Against Sweatshops, bands from around the world have been signing up to kick sweatshops out of the global punk scene and source band T-shirts ethically. All the proceeds from the comp are being split between building the campaign and the Garment Workers Solidarity Fund set up by No Sweat https://nosweat.org.uk/
As well as WBB, the album also boasts many other great bands such as Jello Biafra and the Guantanamo School of Medicine, Petrol Girls, The Menstrual Cramps, Oi Polloi, Rubella Ballet, The Restarts, Bratakus, Wonk Unit, Armoured Flu Unit, The Crash Landings, Propagandhi and many more...
You can find it here : https://punksagainstsweatshops.bandcamp.com/album/give-sweatshops-the-boot-vol-1
The Wolf Bites Boy track is, as we've come to expect from the band, a working class anthemic singalong and it's called Rubble And Decay...
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