Reflecting on the period in 2022 when the music industry began to reopen, Hunt admitted he was struggling with the idea of performing. “I was about to start gigging again and then I just thought, ‘I don’t think I’ve got anything in the tank.’ I wasn’t looking forward to gigging,” he shared.
Instead of forcing a comeback, he looked toward a local institution: The Three Tuns, the oldest licensed brewery in the UK. “I saw on one of the social media platforms that this local brewery… was needing new draymen, and I thought, ‘I could do that for the summer,’” Hunt explained. The interview process was delightfully informal: “I wandered into the brewery… and the lads, they know me from the pub, they’re like, ‘Oh, Miles, what you’re doing?’ And I’m like, ‘Can I have a job?’” When they asked what he wanted to do, Hunt replied, “I want to be a dray.” After confirming he had a clean driving license, the instructions were simple: “‘Get here at 7:00am tomorrow morning,’ and the next morning I was humping barrels of beer around, and I did that for seven months. And I loved it.”
Beyond his time in the brewery, Hunt used his “shockingly good” memory to clear up a legendary rock ‘n’ roll rumor involving Bob Mortimer and Vic Reeves. Addressing Mortimer’s recent claim that the band forced “several tumblers of vodka” on them before their 1991 Top of the Pops performance of ‘Dizzy,’ Hunt set the record straight: “None of this is true – they were shots of tequila!” —
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