Bringing bouncing, effervescent indie pop to the UK's morose, shoegazey scene of
the late 1980s, The Wonder Stuff's sneering flamboyance and boisterous,
good-time energy quickly made them cult favourites. The band self-funded their
first EP A Wonderful Day after a win on the Football Pools by bassist Rob Jones,
before signing with Polydor for debut album The Eight Legged Groove Machine
(1988). Second album Hup (1989) made the big breakthrough, reaching Number 5 in
the UK, before the huge summer single Size Of A Cow took its follow-up Never
Loved Elvis (1991) to Number 3. Inspired...