'Catching More Than We Miss' is the brand new album from Miles Hunt & Erica Nockalls. To buy the album visit us at our upcoming gigs or click here.
The new single 'Stay Scared, Stay Tuned' taken from the forthcoming Miles Hunt & Erica Nockalls album 'Catching More Than We Miss' is now available for download from the following link...
I have been the singer, rhythm guitarist & principle songwriter in UK based band The Wonder Stuff since 1986. The band continue to write, record & play live to this day but I also find time to indulge myself in solo pursuits, sometimes accompanied by other members of The Wonder Stuff sometimes not. This MySpace page is pretty much dedicated to that area of my life. Please take a look at myspace.com/the_wonder_stuff for information soley about the band.
The Wonder Stuff took an extended break between the years of 1994 to 2000 during which I spent an eighteen month period as the presenter for MTV Europe's '120 Minutes' alternative music show. I was soon to be drawn back to the intoxicating environs of a band when I 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). In 1998 I began performing acoustic shows with Malc Treece (The Wonder Stuff) as well as shows in North America with Phil Hurley (Gigolo Aunts) and then eventually on my own.
In what has now become the last ten years I've made a handful of solo records 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 I signed to Eagle Records & made "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 I decided to commit more time to The Wonder Stuff.
In 2004 we released the first Wonder Stuff album in eleven years, "Escape From Rubbish Island" (IRL) and followed it up in 2006 with "Suspended By Stars" (IRL). The band has been steadily touring both the UK & North America for the last three years & I have to say it is the happiest & most creative period I have experienced as a member of the band.
2006 also saw The Wonder Stuff providing songs for the BBC children's t.v. show, 'Underground Ernie', which I had written with the show's creator, Sid Rainey, a couple of years beforehand. I'm not entirely sure, at this point, what will happen in the future with this project, but it has been said before that all I have ever done is write childish ditties, it just seemed that in this particular instance I had found the correct home for them. I'd certainly welcome the chance to do more of this kind of writing.
My last output of 2006 was a 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 songs from my solo releases, including three brand new songs.
In 2007, The Wonder Stuff took some time off as I was concentrating on writing & recording the "Not An Exit" (IRL) album with Wonder Stuff violinist, Erica Nockalls, and drummer, Andres Karu. Erica & I toured the UK extensively throughout 2007 in support of "Not An Exit" which had an official release date in the UK of April 30th & in the US of June 26th, released on Fake Chapter Records.
2008 saw myself & Erica touring constantly to promote our "Not An Exit" album (IRL). I think we played more shows in '08 than in any previous years & part of that touring took us the the US on a co-headline tour with Wayne Hussey of The Mission. There are still some video diaries from that tour here on my profile for those of you that wanna know more about the trials & tribulations of touring.
The Wonder Stuff played two shows in October 2008 to celebrate the 20th anniversary of the release of our debut album, "The Eight Legged Grove Machine". They went so well that we're doing a few more ELGM shows in May of 2009 (UK only). And to assist the current line up of The Wonder Stuff to get their heads around the old songs we took the opportunity to re-record "The Eight Legged Groove Machine", including extra b-side tracks, as a limited edition anniversary version of the album, available from IRL.
Erica & I get 2009 off to a rockin' start with a special show at Birmingham's Town Hall on Friday 30th of January. We were invited to play the newly refurbished venue in the Summer of 2008 & thought we should make something of an event out of the opportunity. So we have given the evening the name 'Shared' & invited some of our favourite players to join us in an evening of acoustic performance. The bill features Wayne Hussey (The Mission), Roddy Frame (Aztec Camera), Nick Heyward (Haircut 100) & Katell Keineg. We hope that this first 'Shared' event will be the first of many such occasions where we can put together a varied bill of stripped back performances.
March 2009 sees the release of another Miles & Erica album, recorded throughout 2008, titled "Catching More Than We Miss" (IRL). Most artists will often claim that their latest effort is their best and hand on heart, I can tell you that that is exactly how I feel about our new album. As a performing & writing duo I don't think Erica & I have ever sounded as good as we do on this new album. We are joined once again by The Wonder Stuff's drummer, Andres Karu and producer, Pat Collier, for this record.
Keep your eyes on the 'Upcoming Shows' section of my profile to stay up to date with both mine & Erica's & The Wonder Stuff's gigging activities in 2009.
The new True Margrit CD - The Juggler's Progress - is now available for pre-order, along with t-shirts and artwork, photo and drumheads, check it out here: http://bit.ly/7Cu8J
Next shows: October 26, Charlie's Bar and Grill in Olympia, WA October 27, The Swiss, Tacoma, WA October 28, Jazzbones in Tacoma, WA October 30, Mississippi Pizza in Portland, OR October 31, Nana's Irish Grill and Pub in Newport, OR November 1, Muddy's Hot Cup in Arcata, CA
Our tour wraps up with the big show at San Francisco's best rock club, Bottom of the Hill! For the complete show schedule, check here: http://bit.ly/1UgGqQ
hiya Miles, Thanks for a great night on wednesday, i forgot to tell you that 'magazine' were on jules holland the other week, you'll be able to see it on you tube if you havnt seen it already. take care, see you soon Matthew xx
great to see you and erica at the uea last nite... tune of the night for me was old reliables... never heard it live before... bloody brilliant ! thank you x
Top show last night there chaps, my friend got stuck at work until gone 2am so couldn't come, she was very chuffed with the photo I sent her, apparently you still look hot Miles. To balance that out, you looked fanastic last night Erica. Catch you at Brum
Hiya Miles, Helen told me about Jim Bob, bloody brilliant, I wanted to go to Stourbridge and watch him, but was unable to make it. Thanks for sending me the disc, see you soon, take care, Matthew xx
my names i think your amazeing ur a big part of my life plus the wonderstuff. i met u once at the manchester apollo backstage, u know me ma deana, check my profile im a tattooist from warrington. peace
took the train all the way to tokyo from Nagoya. got all the way to the block where the liquid room was, walked around the block about 4 times trying to find the place. asked half a dozen people where it was. got frustrated and went back to Nagoya... hope it was a great show. maybe i will get to see you guys someday...
September 1:st our 1:st single, Dare To Lick (Hunter's Red Sleeve), from our upcoming album SILENT REVOLUTION,was released and is available on iTunes but also on our MySpace of course!
The album will be released October 1:st and later that month we go on tour in Germany with The Movements.
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