Gilks who was born in Stourbridge, was originally the drummer with Midlands-based The Mighty Lemon Drops before leaving in 1985 (allegedly sacked for not wanting to cut his hair), and later joined Miles Hunt, Malcolm Treece, and Rob "The Bass Thing" Jones to form The Wonder Stuff in March 1986.
He also continued his career as director of music videos, including clips for New Order, Happy Mondays ("wrote for luck" "24 hour party people" and "Hallelujah"), Pop Will Eat Itself and The Mighty Lemon Drops(A certain ratio)(sugar cubes).
Mighty Morphin Power Rangers | Mighty Mouse | The Mighty Mighty Bosstones | The Mighty Boosh | Liz Lemon | The Mighty Ducks | Mighty Morphin Power Rangers: The Movie | Blind Lemon Jefferson | Mighty Sparrow | Mighty Mike McGee | The Mighty Ducks (movies) | The Lemon Song | Smith & Mighty | Keith Lemon | Chet Lemon | Bigfoot Presents: Meteor and the Mighty Monster Trucks | the Mighty Mighty Bosstones | The Mighty Lemon Drops | Mighty Max | Mighty Man | Mighty Diamonds | Lemon Sky | Lemon Jelly | D3: The Mighty Ducks | D2: The Mighty Ducks | The Mighty Boosh (TV series) | The Mighty | The Lemon Pipers | Ralph Lemon | Mighty Sam McClain |
Like their contemporaries Primal Scream, The Mighty Lemon Drops and The Weather Prophets, The Bodines went on to sign up with a major label with great hopes of transferring their success to the mainstream charts.