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Miles Hunt and Erica Nockalls

From United Kingdom

Over the past 20 years The Wonder Stuff have notched up 5 top 20 albums and played to hundreds of thousands of people throughout the UK. 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 2,000,000 sales worldwide. Having played 7 festivals and 2 UK tours in 2006 founder-member and lead vocalist, Miles Hunt, and fiddle player Erica Nockalls have recorded the incredible new album ‘Not An Exit’, which is currently being heralded as Miles’ finest work. In April and May they duo took to the road for a 6 week tour performing acoustic versions of old and new Wonder Stuff songs, as well as selected titles from the album. Erica brings a new dimension to set, playing fiddle on classic Wonder Stuff songs as well as on songs that have never featured fiddles before. The strings throughout the entire set show the more roots/folk side of The Wonder Stuff’s songs. By way of introducing each song in the set, Miles recounts stories of life on the road, tales from The Wonder Stuff and life in general. It's a double dose of Miles; the singer-songwriter and monologue-ist!More info:www.thewonderstuff.co.uk