Together the band have notched up 5 top 20 albums and played to hundreds of thousands of people throughout the world. Best known for their number 1 single with Vic Reeves, ‘Dizzy’, the band have performed hundreds of TV shows with their 17 top 20 singles and made 3,000,000 sales. In recent years they have played a myriad of festivals (including no less than 7 in 2006) and tours around the UK performing material from their seminal albums “Eight Legged Groove Machine”, “Hup” (recently quoted by Mark Ronson as the album that changed his life), “Never Loved Elvis”, “Construction For The Modern Idiot”.

The band continue to write, record & play live to this day but Miles still finds time to indulge himself in solo pursuits, sometimes accompanied by other members of The Wonder Stuff sometimes not.

The Wonder Stuff took an extended break between the years of 1994 to 2000 during which Hunt spent an eighteen month period as the presenter for MTV Europe’s ‘120 Minutes’ alternative music show. Hunt was soon to be drawn back to the intoxicating environs of a band when he formed the mighty, but short lived, Vent 414 in 1996 with Pete Howard (EAT & more recently Queen Adreena) and Morgan Nicholls (Senseless Things, The Streets & more recently Muse). 1998 saw Miles performing acoustic shows with Malc Treece (The Wonder Stuff) as well as shows in North America with Phil Hurley (Gigolo Aunts). Since then Miles has continued to play solo shows, shows with Malc Treece, and for the past 2 years with Erica Nockalls (the violinist in The Wonder Stuff).

Over the past 10 years Miles has released solo records both here and in the UK including “Miles Across America” (acoustic album, Gig Records), “Hairy On The Inside” (album, Gig Records), “By The Time I Got To Jersey” (live acoustic album, Gig Records), “Life’s Great EP” (Gig Records), and “Five Songs EP” (Gig Records).

In 2001 Hunt signed to Eagle Records & released “The Miles Hunt Club” album with Andres Karu (Love In Reverse, The Amazing Meet Project & more recently The Wonder Stuff) and Michael Ferentino (Love In Reverse, The Amazing Meet Project & more recently Transfusion M). That band toured with Stuart Quinnel (Understand & The Wonder Stuff) on bass a number of times during the early 2000’s before committing more time to The Wonder Stuff.

2004 saw the first Wonder Stuff album released in eleven years, “Escape From Rubbish Island” (IRL), followed up in 2006 with “Suspended By Stars” (IRL). Throughout these years the band steadily touring both the UK & North America.

2006 also saw The Wonder Stuff providing songs for the BBC children’s t.v. show, ‘Underground Ernie’ as well as Miles’ live solo album, “Interloper” (IRL), which was recorded at a couple of late summer gigs in the UK and features Wonder Stuff favourites as well as solo releases, including three brand new songs.

In 2007 The Wonder Stuff took a year out whilst Miles, Erica and Andres (The Wonder Stuff’s drummer) recorded the “Not An Exit” (IRL) album. Miles and Erica toured the album non stop from it’s release in April 2007 to the very end of December 2008, including a month long tour on the US.

Whilst touring ‘Not An Exit’ in 2008 Miles and Erica wrote a follow up album ‘Catching More Than We Miss’ to be released in March 2009. The same year saw the 20th anniversary of The Wonder Stuff’s debut album ‘The Eight Legged Groove Machine’ release. To mark the occasion the band played 2 sell out shows at Birmingham Academy and London’s Shepherds Bush Empire. They also released a very limited edition recorded version of the album.

2009 sees the first ‘Shared’ event, currated by Miles at Birmingham Town Hall on 30th January, which features acoustic performances by Wayne Hussey of The Mission, Roddy Frame of Aztec Camera, Nick Heyward of Haircut 100, Katell Keineg alongside Miles and Erica. Following on from that Miles and Erica will be touring their ‘Catching More Than We Miss’ album for the rest of the year as well as Wonder Stuff tour in May, followed by festival appearances. Miles will also be taking ‘Shared’ onto his own stage at Heavenly Planet festival in July.

Not content with a year of releases and tours Miles will also be finishing his first book!

Touring being the band’s main activity they recorded their debut album, ‘The Eight Legged Groove Machine’ over a period of twenty eight days in 1988, taking time off from support tours with Big Country, Zodiac Mindwarp & The Love Reaction and Pop Will Eat Itself among others.

Although it took a further three single releases to reach the Official British Top 40, The Wonder Stuff regularly graced the covers of New Musical Express, Melody Maker & Sounds – the three essential music weeklies of the day. It was here that the arrogant, self-confident manner of vocalist/guitarist Miles Hunt, began to make something of himself beyond the sneering lyrical content of the band’s songs, a personality known well to thousands of fans that had seen them live.

During 1989 the band added North America & Europe to their touring schedule, picking up an international fan base before returning to the UK to record their second album ‘HUP’. This album showed a genuine development from their previous twin guitar buzz signature sound, aided & abetted by multi-instrumentalist Martin Bell who would become a mainstay in The Wonder Stuff’s future sound.

All three single releases in 1989 were Top 20 Hits in the UK and each successive tour saw the band playing larger venues to capacity audiences, but commercial success couldn’t save the band from internal difficulties and in December ’89 Rob Jones left the band. He was replaced in the Spring of 1990 by an old friend, Paul Clifford, who was quickly thrown into a busy touring schedule as the band played support to The Mission in both Europe and North America.

The Wonder Stuff released only one single in 1990 – a song recorded prior to Rob Jones departure from the band, ‘Circlesquare’ which once again achieved Top 20 status in the UK.

Despite the line up changes, 1991 saw the band go from strength to strength. Their third album, ‘Never Loved Elvis’, produced four hit singles, including a collaboration with Kirsty MacColl on the song ‘Welcome To The Cheap Seats’ and the band’s first Top 5 hit with ‘The Size Of A Cow’.

Having already appeared at both Reading & Glastonbury festivals in previous years, The Wonder Stuff staged their very own open-air event, The Big Day Out, to coincide with the album’s release at Walsall’s 22,000 capacity Bescot Stadium. The event’s name was inspired by hit television show ‘Vic Reeves’ Big Night Out’ and Vic Reeves himself compered the day’s events. Vic would later ask the band to return the favour by being his backing band on ‘Dizzy’, a track he was recording for an album that he planned to release later in the year – upon it’s release in October 1991, the track reached Number One in the Official UK Singles Charts.

Touring took up most of 1992’s calendar for The Wonder Stuff, including a headlining spot at The Reading Festival, their only visits to Australia & Japan and several North American tours, both headlining and in support of Siouxsie & The Banshees.

1993 saw the release of the band’s fourth album, ‘Construction For The Modern Idiot’, and although the critics were not entirely convinced by this record the fans did not waver. More hit singles and longer tours in larger venues carried them through into 1994 when they were booked to headline Stratford-Upon-Avon’s Phoenix Festival. It came as some surprise then that only weeks before their appearance at the festival, they announced their split. Hunt would later go on to say that the commercial success of The Wonder Stuff had taken much of the enjoyment out of being in the band and that he felt they had little else left to do.

With The Wonder Stuff consigned to the history books, Miles went on to front his own show on MTV Europe, ‘120 Minutes’, before taking advice from no less than Paul Weller himself in abandoning a career in television and returning to the music industry with new group Vent 414, alongside Morgan Nicholls of Senseless Things and Pete Howard of EAT. The trio (briefly enlarged to a four-piece with the temporary enrolment of The Cult’s Billy Duffy) released two singles and one album before begin discarded by Polydor Records.

Meanwhile, the other former members of The Wonder Stuff pulled in another Eat member, frontman Ange Dolittle, for their new group We Know Where You Live. After almost two years together, two EP’s and a shedload of gigs up and down the British Isles, they too called it a day in the Autumn of 1996.

With everyone going off into other areas of the industry, well away from the labours of rehearsing, recording and performing live, it was Miles who eventually hooked back up with Malc Treece in 1998 when the two of them embarked on a holiday-cum-acoustic tour of the UK and USA. This began a new career in the chapter of The Wonder Stuff as they performed a range of material from their lengthy careers including new songs, Wonder Stuff material and Vent 414 tracks. Since then, Hunt has regularly split his time between his solo work and that of The Wonder Stuff’s, with seven solo albums released to date and another in the pipeline.

Almost six years after the date of their final performance at the Phoenix Festival the group announced plans to reform, albeit with Stuart Quinell taking over bass duties in place of Paul Clifford, resulting in a sell-out five night residency at London’s Kentish Town Forum. In the three years that followed, the group would go on to play a handful of dates and festivals around the UK before, at the end of 2003, disagreements within the group once again saw a major fall-out within the ranks resulting in Hunt and Treece renewing the line-up of the group with Radical Dance Faction’s Mark McCarthy on bass and Love In Reverse’s Andres Karu on drums for the release of a new Wonder Stuff album ‘Escape From Rubbish Island’.

Undaunted by the grievances of former members, Miles, Malc, Andres and Mark went on to tour both the UK and North America throughout 2005 and in 2006 released a sixth Wonder Stuff studio album, ‘Suspended By Stars’, featuring new member, Erica Nockalls on violin.

Since the end of 2006, Miles and Erica have combined The Wonder Stuff’s touring and recording schedule with their own acoustic work of Miles and Erica. With a live album and two studio albums now under their belt, the duo regularly tour the length and breadth of the UK, playing to both smaller audiences and large festival crowds alike supplying a mix of tracks from Hunt’s entire career, alongside inter-song banter and some explanations into the stories behind the songs.

2008 saw the group celebrate the 20th anniversary of the release of their debut album, ‘The Eight Legged Groove Machine’ with two concerts in Birmingham and London where they performed the album, in it’s entirety, along with a selection of other tracks from their illustrious recording career. Further dates were added in May 2009 and an album was also released of the new line-up re-recording the original album.

In June 2009, the group headlined the Avalon Stage at the Glastonbury Festival, one of a number of festival appearances at which the group would appear during the year. December 2009 saw the group return to their original stomping ground with a very special homecoming show at the 02 Academy in Birmingham to perform their HUP album in it’s entirety which was recorded for release early in 2010 along with a full studio re-recording of their classic 1989 album.

2010 was another busy year with more live dates planned for Miles and Erica along with some new dates and material as part of the Shared project. The Wonder Stuff themselves toured the UK during April and May performing the HUP album as well as appearing at a handful of festivals in the Summer also. In November 2010, drummer Andres Karu left the group to pursue other interests paving the way for former Pop Will Eat Itself drummer to bring history full-circle buy joining the group in Dre’s place.

In 2011, The Wonder Stuff will be touring with The Levellers as part of their Levelling The Land anniversary tour which will culminate at London’s Brixton Academy exactly 25 years to the day that the group originally formed.