Miles Hunt
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Guitarist
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and songwriter
Songwriter
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for the Stourbridge
Stourbridge
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, England
England
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-based Alternative Rock
Alternative rock
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band The Wonder Stuff
The Wonder Stuff
The Wonder Stuff are a British alternative rock band, originally based in Stourbridge, West Midlands, in the Black Country, England.-Origins:...
.
Early life
Union steward
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for the TGWU
Transport and General Workers' Union
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. In the 1970s, his father was based at Derby
Derby
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, and they lived in Etwall
Etwall
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for four years, with Hunt attending the Etwall Junior School and his brother attending the John Port School
John Port School
John Port Specialist Technology, Mathematics and Computing College is a very large academy in the village of Etwall, Derbyshire, England.-Admissions:...
. Hunt now lives in South Shropshire and regularly plays acoustic gigs in the locality.
Hunt married the late-night/early-morning BBC Radio 1 DJ Mary Anne Hobbs
Mary Anne Hobbs
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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. His partner is Erica Nockalls, violinist with The Wonder Stuff.
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 ItselfPop Will Eat Itself
Pop Will Eat Itself are an English alternative rock band, originally formed in Stourbridge in 1986, with members from Birmingham, Coventry and the Black Country. Initially known as a Grebo act, their style changed to incorporate sample driven indie and industrial rock...
. After leaving this band he formed The Wonder Stuff
The Wonder Stuff
The Wonder Stuff are a British alternative rock band, originally based in Stourbridge, West Midlands, in the Black Country, England.-Origins:...
and was their lead singer and principal songwriter until their split in 1994. He briefly presented 120 Minutes
120 Minutes (UK TV series)
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on MTV Europe
MTV Europe
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until mid '95, 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
CBeebies
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television programme Underground Ernie
Underground Ernie
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Over the last few years he has written a series of printed and online articles for Nottingham-based culture magazine.
He also performed at the festival Bearded Theory on 15th May 2011 with Erica Nockalls.
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 Nockalls, April 2007)
- Catching More Than We Miss (Miles Hunt & Erica Nockalls, March 2009)
- SharedSharedShared may refer to:* Sharing* Shared ancestry* Shared care* Shared Cost Service* Shared decision making* Shared delusion* Shared government* Shared intelligence* Shared library* Shared morality* Shared ownership* Shared parenting...
(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)