Miles Hunt

Miles Hunt performing live, 2009

Miles Hunt (born 29 July 1966, in Birmingham) is the singer / guitarist and songwriter for the Stourbridge, England)-based pop band The Wonder Stuff.

Early life

Miles Hunt, casual, 2008

His father was a union official for the TGWU. In the 1970s, his father was based at Derby, and they lived in Etwall for four years, with Hunt attending the Etwall Junior School and his brother attending the John Port School.^[1] Hunt now lives in Marston Green, Solihull, West Midlands

Hunt married the late-night/early-morning BBC Radio 1 DJ Mary Anne Hobbs in April 1990, in the London borough of Tower Hamlets. She was working for the NME at the time. They were married for five years.

Career

Hunt's first band (in which he played drums) was called From Eden, and featured future members of another successful Stourbridge group, Pop Will Eat Itself. After leaving this band he formed The Wonder Stuff and was their lead singer and principal songwriter until their split in 1994. He briefly presented 120 Minutes on MTV until 1996, when he formed a new band Vent 414 who failed to match the success of his former band. He toured as a solo performer for a time until he reformed The Wonder Stuff in 2000. They are still together to this day, and are facing something of a career relaunch, having appeared on many summer festival bills in 2006. He also co-wrote and sang the theme tune to the CBeebies television programme Underground Ernie.^[2]

Over the last few years he has written a series of printed and online articles for Nottingham-based culture magazine LeftLion.

Discography

Albums

• Vent 414 (Miles Hunt's post Wonder Stuff bands one & only album, October 1996)
• Miles Across America (an acoustic collection of Wonder Stuff, Vent 414 & new tracks, November 1998)
• By The Time I Got To Jersey - Live Acoustic (also known as "Common Threads", November 1998)
• Hairy On The Inside (April 1999)
• The Miles Hunt Club (May 2002)
• Interloper - Live Acoustic Summer 2006 (October 2006)
• Not An Exit (Miles Hunt & Erica Nochalls, April 2007)
• Catching More Than We Miss (Miles Hunt & Erica Nochalls, March 2009)
• Shared (V/A Put together & Including Miles Hunt & Erica Nockalls, July 2009)

Singles and EPs

• Fixer - Vent 414 (September 1996)
• Life Before You - Vent 414 (November 1996)
• Life's Great (EP May 2000)
• Five Songs (EP December 2000)
• Everything Is Not Ok (April 2002)

References

External links

• Interview at Blueyonder
• Interview with Tasty Fanzine
• Miles Hunt writes for LeftLion Magazine