Peter Momtchiloff (born 10 March 1962) is a British guitarist and bassist. He was educated at

Winchester College Winchester College is an English Public school (United Kingdom), public school (a long-established fee-charging boarding school for pupils aged 13–18) with some provision for day school, day attendees, in Winchester, Hampshire, England. It wa ...

and

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. His musical career began in 1978 playing bass guitar in Winchester band The Big Figure. At Oxford he continued as a bass player and vocalist in Ron and His Beat Busters (under the name Miguel Horton) and Communist Alliance. These outfits played a combination of cover versions and original material with new wave, R&B and

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influences. As a guitarist he played in

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trio The Shovel Robinson King Biscuit Country Blue Band. Momtchiloff was a founding member of the seminal

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bands

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, Heavenly, and its later incarnation

Marine Research Marine Research were an indiepop group, based in Oxford/London (UK), formed in 1997 by four of the five members of Heavenly ( Amelia Fletcher, Peter Momtchiloff, Cathy Rogers and Rob Pursey), following the death of Heavenly drummer Mathew ...

. In 1999, he joined Jessica Griffin in her band the Would-Be-Goods. He has also played guitar for Scarlet's Well, Les Clochards, and Hot Hooves. In 2014, he devised a band called Tufthunter to record an album of his songs, each sung by a different singer. This album was released in 2015 under the title ''Deep Hits''. A second album of 'garage exotica', ''Dream Diary'', was released in 2023. From 1993 to 2023 Momtchiloff was

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for Philosophy at

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References

External links

Tufthunter website with free download of the first albumTufthunter bandcamp page where both albums can be downloaded for free
1962 births Living people British male guitarists British bass guitarists British editors People educated at Winchester College Oxford University Press people British male bass guitarists {{UK-guitarist-stub