The Wildhearts: 10 Tracks You Need To Call Yourself A Fan

Nothing Ever Changes But The Shoes is one of The Wildhearts earliest songs, but also one of their best. They were performing it live back in 1991 before they had officially recorded a note of music, and when even the band name was very slightly different - The Wild Hearts, instead of the now familiar Wildhearts.

The song was originally taken from their debut release Mondo Akimbo a-Go-Go, released in 1992, but all four songs from that EP were remixed and added to a longer EP called Don’t Be Happy… Just Worry, also out in 1992.

In fact, Mondo Akimbo a-Go-Go saw the band embroiled in their first - but far from their last - piece of controversy. Kerrang!’s Neil Jeffries walked out of an interview with the band after being accused by frontman Ginger of trying to stifle the band’s career. The reason? He’d given the EP only three out of five.

In later years, the band would target Kerrang! again, smashing up their offices; they accidentally set fire to their room at New York’s Chelsea Hotel, and even inadvertently started a riot in Germany.

One thing it has never been with The Wildhearts is dull.