[6] Alongside Stebbing’s brother Simon and Bob Manton (both from The Purple Hearts), Clark and Callahan had previously played together in The Changelings, also known as "The Change Lings", who mostly performed classic garage band covers from the Nuggets and Pebbles compilation classics: the band received a single photo review in Sounds and placed one song, recorded on a cassette player, on Hit Records' Garage Goodies Vol.

Their first EP Cut the Cake[6] was well enough received for the NME to include them on their C86 compilation album, to which they contributed "Feeling So Strange Again".

In the six or so hours we had to record that afternoon, we could have done ("The Anti-Midas Touch") really well and it would have been on a tape that ended up selling tens of thousands.

"[6] In spite of this, the band saw an abrupt and substantial spike in the number of people coming to their shows, and went on to play the C86 gig at the ICA, at which they went down very well.

[11] After a compilation of earlier material, second album proper Bright and Guilty was released in 1989, featuring the singles "Son of Nothing", "Rent Act" and "Happy Shopper".

The sound progressed further with the albums Blown Away (also 1989) and Attitude (1990), which found them in Sonic Youth territory,[12] interspersing raging guitars with elegant compositional exercises.

"[13] Golding and Stebbing formed Crawl, while Callahan joined forces with former Ultra Vivid Scene member Margaret Fiedler in Moonshake.

Over the years, Callahan had received offers to perform with or be interviewed about The Wolfhounds, but by that time had established himself as a freelance ornithologist and had no interest in revisiting his musical past.

[14] However, he was finally convinced into reforming The Wolfhounds in 2006 for a gig organised by Bob Stanley of Saint Etienne to play at the ICA in London, alongside Roddy Frame and Phil Wilson, to celebrate the 20th Anniversary of the C86 cassette.

In March 2012 they played with Laetitia Sadier from Stereolab in support at a benefit to raise funds for the Timperley Frank Sidebottom memorial statue.

An EP called EP001 was released on Vollwert-Records Berlin in April 2012 containing three songs that pre-date the band's first single[15] but that were never recorded satisfactorily at the time.

Also in 2014 an anniversary limited-edition issue of Unseen Ripples from a Pebble (plus bonus tracks) was released by Optic Nerve Recordings.

[20][21] Andy Golding, as Dragon Welding, released an eponymous LP in 2019, and second album Lights Behind The Eyes in 2021.