MILES HUNT: THE WONDER STUFF, INFLUENCES AND MIDLANDS MEMORIES To celebrate the release of the first volume of The Wonder Stuff diaries Lead ‘Stuffie’ Miles Hunt walks us through his influences and Midlands memories… Early Midlands musical influences…. That’s easy… my uncle Bill was the keyboard player in a late line up of The Move, he was then a founding member of The Electric Light Orchestra, but then accompanied Roy Wood when he split from ELO to form Wizzard. Consequently Wizzard was a very big deal in our house. Of course, this being around ’72 to 75, Slade were omnipresent. They were blowing down doors with every single release during those years, so they were absolutely unavoidable, but knowing that they were from just up the road from where we lived was a major bonus. Punk Rock and New Wave cleared the decks shortly after that and that gave us the likes of The Killjoys, Suburban Studs, The Au Pairs, Fashion, and Dexy’s. I was massively into the reggae bands of The Midlands too, Steel Pulse still are one of my all time favourite bands, Weapon of Peace knew how to lay it down too and the the first couple … Continue reading MILES HUNT: THE WONDER STUFF, INFLUENCES AND MIDLANDS MEMORIES