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Bob and Stu nominated for 'Best Duo' award

Iconic is delighted to announce that Bob Fox and Stu Luckley have been nominated in the 'Best Duo' category of the BBC Radio 2 Folk Awards 2009. The nomination follows their very successful reunion tour this autumn and the September release of the album 'Thirty Years On'.

Nominations are decided by votes from a panel of nearly 200 people involved with folk, roots and acoustic music. The same panel will now vote again to decide the winners in the various categories. The winning acts will be announced during a gala evening at The Brewery in London on Monday 2 February 2009.

"Obviously we are absolutely delighted to be nominated," says Bob. "The Radio 2 Folk Awards is a great institution because it brings our genre of music to a wider public. Stu and I have had a great time working together again and finding that the old magic is still there after all these years. It's been great fun bringing our music to a new generation of folk fans as well playing to people who saw us first time round."

Bob and Stu took the folk world by storm when they began playing together in the late 1970s. Their reputation was cemented in 1978 with the release of their debut LP 'Nowt So Good'll Pass' which won Melody Maker's Folk Album Of The Year award in 1978.

The duo's recent tour was organised by Iconic to celebrate the thirtieth anniversary of 'Nowt So Good'll Pass'. The lads visited over 30 selected folk clubs and arts centres during October, playing to full houses nearly every night. To accompany the tour, Bob and Stu re-recorded the songs from 'Nowt So Good'll Pass' and the follow-up LP 'Wish We Never Had Parted' and released 'Thirty years On' as a double CD set. The album includes as a bonus several previously unrecorded songs that never made it onto the original records.

Story published 19 Nov 2008