Tue 12 Apr 2005
Edited from the most recent “Where’s The Street Team” (Magnet Magazine) column (cuz it’s not funny):
(the theme was band reunions)
THE WONDER STUFF
So vexing that it transcends mediocrity. The “stuffies” return, and not in a line-up that remotely resembles the original, but not that you care, or not that you care like some of those original members, who are protesting the formation of this crime against logic. We must give America credit for never buying into this nonsense, despite the Wonderstuff¹s arena popularity in the U.K. Had the new album been released by another band in 1990 (the year that this calls up), it would have seen the ass end of Miles Hunt’s on-stage ridicule. Seeing as how that last Radio 4 album sounds identical to Jesus Jones, maybe this is an unnatural but impending order of things. Nightmare scenario: Miles Hunt picks you out of crowd to poke fun at, and actually delivers a good jab.