With the new Millennium only a few days old, Miles was already making plans for the year ahead.  'Four To The Floor' (with Carina Round) and 'The Feeling I've Been Waiting For' were the first tracks to be released through the MP3 Club, a handful of tourdates across America were announced and details about his second album 'Flapping On The Pier' were released.   The album was initially scheduled for release in Summer 2000 with a five-track sampler, 'Life's Great', being released in mid-February to coincide with his US tour which would also feature Amazing Meet Project's Michael Ferentino.

As part of the tour, in Toronto, Miles and Michael paid a visit to the 2kool4radio radio station where they were interviewed by one of the stations DJ's and also played two tracks live - 'Everything Is Not Okay' and 'Smoked'.  At the time the interview was taking place, the radio station were being filmed by a national US television station and part of the interview was later broadcast on television.  Miles also took part in an interview for the Rolling Stone website who later broadcast his Chicago concert over the internet.

The tour saw a marked change in Miles' selection of songs being performed.  More and more of his solo material was being showcased including many of the tracks from 'Hairy On The Inside' in addition to some of his newly recorded work such as 'Smoked', 'A Yes And A No' and 'A Quick Fix'.  Partway through the tour, a handful of UK dates were announced for April and May.  These were once again played as solo performances but finally it seemed as if the audiences were accepting his newer material as the heckling and vocal abuse which had ruined so many of his past UK performances appeared to be more subdued.  Again, the setlists concentrated heavily on is solo work with renditions of Wonder Stuff and Vent material being reserved for the encore periods.

In between UK dates, Miles took time out to participate in a live webchat on the Megastar website, run by the Express and Star Newspapers conglomerate.  During the hour-long chat, Miles spoke about his current work and answered questions put forward by members of the chatroom who also submitted their requests when he offered to perform some tracks acoustically - 'Smoked', 'Fixer', 'Maybe' and 'Sing The Absurd'.  He also agreed to play his cover of Tom Robinson's 'Not Ready', a track which he still featured in his live sets when playing in the UK.

Shortly after the webcast, more UK live dates between June and September were announced.  One of these dates included an appearance at Dudley Castle to celebrate the 30th anniversary of legendary Midlands club, JB's.

Shortly after, news started to surface that The Wonder Stuff were reforming at that Miles' appearance at Dudley Castle would now be as part of a group revival.  Although still being talked about right up until he took the stage (alone), such a reformation was always strongly denied.  However, only two weeks before the performance, the New Musical Express leaked the information that the group were indeed reforming - although not appearing together in public until December.  This led to a rapid change of plans with regard to the planned release of Miles' next album.  Having started the year as being scheduled for a Summer appearance, it had already been put back to the Autumn before now being moved further back to Spring 2001 (at the earliest).  Recording for the album was still proving highly productive with at least another album's worth of tracks having since been recorded in addition to the tracks featured on the 'Life's Great' EP.   To compensate for the lack of new solo material, plans were put in place to release another five track EP, tentatively titled 'He'll Leave The Light On For You', in the Autumn.  This led to some concern from a number of fans that the eventual release of the second album would only include a couple of new tracks in addition to the tracks already available on the EP's upon its release.  Miles was quick to respond by saying it was now unlikely that all, if any, of the tracks on the EP's would now feature on his next album.  Those that did would, like before, be different recordings to those previously released.

Despite expectations that the former members of the Stuffies would all be busy relearning their old songs from September until December, Miles continued to plan live dates during September and November.  At GIG Records' annual appearance at Ocober's CMJ Music Showcase in New York, the Miles Hunt Band made their debut with Miles on guitar and vocals, Tony Arthy on drums, Dom Murphy on bass and Michael Ferentino on guitar and backing vocals.  Tony and Dom had already contributed heavily to tracks planned for the second album and were intended to be a firm fixture in any group line-up that reaches the UK shores.  In a message on the Wonder Stuff's message board, Miles said that after rehearsing with the other members of The Wonder Stuff he had been concerned that it would take the shine off his solo work though after a short period of rehearsals in the States in preparation of their CMJ showcase, he responded that "I say it myself, but this band is sounding amazing".

On his return to the UK, and in-between rehearsals for the Wonder Stuff's live dates, Miles played a solo acoustic date in Northampton before preparing to embark on a handful of acoustic dates around the UK during November which would also feature the works of two other musicians - Soul Coughing's M. Doughty and Madder Rose's Mary Lorson.  The plan for the gigs was that all of the acts would be onstage at the same time taking turns to play their own material although Miles and Mary were rumoured to have rehearsed at least one track together.

Shortly before the start of the tour, confusion struck.  People who had purchased tickets for the London Union Chapel date were contacted by the Wayahead ticket agency saying that the gig had been cancelled and they should return their tickets.   Concerned fans contacted the venue who denied the gig had been cancelled.  One rumour suggested that a hoax caller from the ticket agency had made the calls but even Miles confessed to having no knowledge of whether the dates had been cancelled or not.  Only a couple of days before the tour was due, Miles announced that he had just discovered the tour had indeed been cancelled.  In an interview for the Dotmusic website, Miles said that the tour had been cancelled due to poor ticket sales even though at least a couple of the venues had reported an excellent response to the gigs.   Miles said he felt that he could understand the poor response considering the impending Wonder Stuff's appearances in Dudley and London although he went on to say he hoped the joint tour with Doughty and Lorson could be rescheduled for another time.

Also in November, GIG Records released their second Miles Hunt 5-track EP, now simply titled '5 Songs'.  All tracks featured Dom, Tony and Martin Bell in addition to Miles' Uncle Bill on keyboards on at least one track.  Retaining the family connection, one of the tracks, 'Line 'Em Up', was credited to Hunt/Hunt as part of the lyric had originally been written by Miles' brother Russ during the mid-80's for his own band, The Libertines.

Artwork for the EP was a very simple black and white design although only a short time before it's release it had boasted a full-colour design but Miles expressed unhappiness with the design and asked to change it for 'a more 70's appearance'.