Following the completion of the Wonder Stuff's tour, and also a small UK tour embarked upon by Miles and Erica, Miles began working with Erica and Andres on the follow up to his 1999 solo album, Hairy On The Inside.

By the end of the month, plans were being made for the release of the new album and a UK tour to promote it.  Indeed, as the weeks progressed, more dates kept being added to the itinerary making this one of Miles' longest spanning tours taking in all parts of the country.

As a taster for the album, Miles set up an area on the MySpace social-networking site where he included the first track from the album 'Back On The Charm Offensive'.  An outtake from the Interloper album was also included on the site.

The album, 'Not An Exit', released in April 2007, was billed as a Miles Hunt album featuring Erica Nockalls and Andres Karu but the album was very much a full performance by all three artists, with Andres' drumming contributions performed and recorded at his home studio in New York and sent to Miles via the Internet for mixing into the album's tracks.

Many felt that the album showed a more upbeat, mellower side to Miles (despite the bile-fuelled lyrical content of tracks such as 'Back On The Charm Offensive').  Where 'Hairy On The Inside' had been firmly seen as a Miles Hunt album largely performed, recorded and mixed by Miles himself (and assisted by Martin 'Fiddly' Bell on other tracks), Not An Exit found many reviewers making comparisons to the fact that the sound and instrumentation could almost made it a fully-fledged Wonder Stuff album is the other two members of the group (Malc Treece and Mark McCarthy) had featured on it.

With a varied mix of styles from the poppy 'Easy Way (Like Californians)' to the folky, Levellers-like 'The Cake' and 'Corny But True' (Miles' self-confessed first proper love song), 'Not An Exit' picked up acclaim with many reviewers' but ultimately would prove difficult to feature many of the tracks in their live acoustic shows.  One particular track, 'Note To Self' became a firm favourite of both Miles and Erica's but with the vocal lines almost mixed into each other in one continuous stream, it would prove difficult to emulate on stage.  The first couple of times they performed it, they tried to slow it down but agreed that it didn't work so Miles took to performing the track with his lyric book in front of him to remind him of the lines and only pause for breath when absolutely necessary!

Promotional acoustic shows for the album also saw the start of what, four years later, would still be known as 'he Never Ending Tour.  Eager to promote their wares to the public, and with a new-found enjoyment of performing live, the pair could usually be found performing, when convenient to other schedules, somewhere in the UK almost every couple of weeks - smaller venues here and there around the country, often in locations you wouldn't expect to find them.

The tour also found the duo taking part in some in-store record shop performances although their scheduled appearance at the ill-fated Fopp store in Bristol must have made them wonder whether such shows were worth the extra effort as the store had undertaken no prior promotion or preparations for them to perform, instead simply clearing an area of space in their shop window shortly before they were due to arrive.  Former Wonder Stuff manager Les Johnson was first on the scene, aside from a small number of fans who had made the journey to see them performing, and he was quick to express his concern at the lack of effort on the part of the record shop.  So mis-managed was the appearance that Les and Miles were telling people that they would not be appearing after alll whilst the shop (STILL without any advertisements or posters on display for the appearance) were still telling fans who went in to enquire when the show would be on that it was still going ahead.  Eventually it was left to fans to circulate the word amongst themselves and to let others know who were coming in to the store that the performance had been cancelled.  Unconnected, Fop closed down shortly after...  Further pre-arranged in-store appearances were considerably more successful although they never did any again after the handful that were booked in this year.

July saw the pair's debut at the renowned WOMAD Festival - being held for the first time at Malmesbury in Wiltshire following a need to move to a bigger location from it's famed home in Reading.  With the festival also celebrating it's 25th anniversary, a wide-range of acts were featured at the festival and Miles and Erica performed a mix set of both 'solo' and Wonder Stuff material.  Their performance was recorded by an on-site audio company and shortly after their set had finished, a limited number of CD's were available to buy which were unavailable anywhere else outside of the venue.

Shortly after their WOMAD appearance, Miles and Erica took their acoustic show over to America for a brief ten-date tour starting on the East Coast and then heading across to the West Coast before turning back around again to finish their tour in Boston.  After heading home again, a support slot on Vinny Peculiar's UK tour was undertaken to finish up a rather busy year for the pair.  Shortly before the support tour, Miles and Erica popped into the Janice Long Show on BBC Radio 2 to talk about their latest album and also a perform a couple of tracks from it.

2008

Another busy year for Miles and Erica found them travelling around the country on a regular basis performing a couple of shows every few weeks.

Aside from the smaller club venues, a number of larger shows were arranged including an appearance at the Wychwood Festival in June, Scotland's Wickerman Festival in July and also some support slots alongside The Mission, The Proclaimers and Dodgy.

Throughout September, Miles and Erica went on a tour of America with long-term friend and Mission frontman Wayne Hussey.  The idea of the shows was to showcase their own individual material to new audiences but as the tour was planned as a joint headline tour, each act performed a selection of their own tracks before the other act came onstage and they performed jointly.  Although not performed every night, most shows saw Erica performing with Wayne on Mission track 'Like A Child Again' with Miles featuring on another Mission track 'Keep It In The Family'.  All three acts would regularly combine to perform The Mission's 'Tower Of Strength' although one of the highlights of many shows was a slowed-down piano version of The Wonder Stuff's 'On The Ropes' which Wayne himself performed primarily although Miles and Erica sometimes joined him onstage.  A video diary recording events throughout the whole tour was also recorded which Miles aired through his MySpace webpage.

Whilst the US tour was proceeding, the Rockworld digital television channel in the UK began what would become a near-constant rotation of an interview and session which Miles and Erica had recorded for the Gary Crowley show.  Crowley's broadcast featured an interview with Miles combined with exclusive acoustic performances by Miles and Erica including 'The Cake', 'Here Comes Everyone' and also a cover of The Cure's 'Inbetween Days'.  Another broadcast of the show, simply titled 'Miles Hunt In Session' featured the same tracks but without the interview and also gained an additional track, 'Corny But True'.  At one stage, the session performance was being broadcast on a near daily-basis, especially towards the end of the channel's life as the owners of the channel attempted to continue broadcasting for as long as possible without having to invest in new programming or features!

Upon their return to the UK, Miles and Erica joined up with the other members of The Wonder Stuff for two shows to celebrate the anniversary of their debut album 'The Eight Legged Groove Machine' but as soon as the two dates were completed headed back out on the road again for a handful of UK dates in November and then a further six dates (later shortened to five when their Christmas Eve performance in Sheffield was cancelled.