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Jan 2018 - p.6
It’s been 27 years since two of Stourbridge’s
finest exports,
The Wonder Stuff
and
Ned’s
Atomic Dustbin
, have shared a stage, and
they’ve just announced a one-off, 12-date,
double-headline UK tour in spring 2018.
The two bands grew up alongside one another,
in the heyday of the ‘Stourbridge Scene’ and
their first ever live show together was on The
Wonder Stuff’s ‘Disco King’ tour at the legendary
Hummingbird in Birmingham.
With a career spanning more than three
decades, The Wonder Stuff have sold millions of
albums worldwide with eight studio releases to
date. The band continue to record and tour
internationally and led by the inimitable Miles
Hunt, The Wonder Stuff has achieved vast
critical acclaim with hit singles and early releases
from
The Eight Legged Groove Machine
(1988),
Hup
(1989),
Never Loved Elvis
(1991)
to
Construction for the Modern Idiot
(1994)
and their latest album,
30 Goes Around The
Sun
(2016) entered the UK Top 30 and made
Top 3 in the Indie Chart. Miles has also recently
penned a collection of books,
The Wonder Stuff
Diaries
.
Formed thirty years ago in 1987, Ned’s Atomic
Dustbin quickly gained momentum and a huge
fan base after those initial shows with The
Wonder Stuff and shot straight to Number 1 in
the Indie Singles Chart in July 1990 with the
monumental hit,
Kill Your Television
. Being
their huge ‘crossover’ single, the song, the
slogan, and the distinctive t-shirt stands as the
deepest footprint the band left on the indie rock
planet. The Ned’s saw their first Sony single
Happy
(1991) storm into the Top 20 of the UK
charts and their seminal debut album,
God
Fodder
, landed with a thud in the Top 5 as well
“I’m less inclined to use the word hits because
we had none, and I don’t know about best of....
so let's call it live favourites”
-
Jonn Penney, Ned’s Atomic Dustbin.
APR
14
APR
15
