In 1975, after spending 5 years as a floor singer around the many folk clubs in the North East of England as well as being a resident singer at the famous “Davylamp” Folk Club in Washington, BOB FOX met up with fellow North Easterner TOM McCONVILLE and his career as a professional folk singer/musician began.
In the duo with TOM he toured the vibrant folk club scene of mid 70’s Britain playing a mixture of Irish & Scottish dance music and singing mainly traditional songs primarily from their native North East, TOM on fiddle and BOB on guitar and piano.
BOB was vaunted as one of the best new singers on the scene and when the duo with TOM dissolved after 2 very successful years BOB formed a highly acclaimed partnership with ex-Hedgehog Pie man STU LUCKLEY.
BOB FOX & STU LUCKLEY amazed the folk clubs, festivals, reviewers and music press alike with their unique and innovative approach to arranging folk songs old and new, their first album
“NOWT SO GOOD’LL PASS” was voted FOLK ALBUM OF THE YEAR by Melody Maker on release in 1978 and remains a classic album.
BOB & STU were in great demand and played almost every folk club & festival in the UK and were support artists on major British tours for both RICHARD & LINDA THOMPSON and RALPH McTELL. The duo also toured Germany, Holland, Australia and New Zealand and released a second album “WISH WE NEVER HAD PARTED” in 1982 before breaking up to pursue individual projects.
Since that time BOB has worked on developing his SOLO career and has also created a songs and slide show “HOW ARE YOU OFF FOR COALS” with BENNY GRAHAM depicting and celebrating the rich and varied culture of the coal mining communities of Durham & Northumberland.
In 1996 BOB & BENNY recorded the mining songs from the show and a few extras on a CD with Fellside Recordings of Cumbria “HOW ARE YOU OFF FOR COALS?” – FECD111 and the following year re-recorded a selection of 14 songs from his previous albums with STU on the CD
“BOX OF GOLD” – FECD 124. These two CDs come highly recommended by reviewers who once again place BOB at the top of the singer’s tree!
“FOX always was one of the scenes superior singers and his voice is as confident and ebullient as it ever was!” Colin Irwin - FOLK ROOTS
In the year 2000 BOB celebrated 25 years of singing folk songs professionally and was invited to appear as “special guest” on the FAIRPORT CONVENTION “Wood and the Wire” UK tour in February. His first ever solo CD “DREAMS NEVER LEAVE YOU” - WRCD 035 was subsequently recorded at DAVE PEGG’S Woodworm Studio with various members of FAIRPORT playing on it.
The CD delighted both the folk press and BOB’s growing legion of fans, he also performed an impressive set at the CROPREDY FESTIVAL in August 2000.
In May/June 2001 BOB had a great reception on his first tour of US/Canada and in Sept/Oct Bob made the same impression on audiences in Australia and New Zealand.
Bob completed a Round the World tour in Sept/Oct/Nov 2002 and released a brand new CD “DARK TO THE SKY” recorded in the North East with new band THE HUSH.
The album has received rave reviews with ”Here’s the tender coming” being nominated Best Traditional Track and Bob nominated Best Folk Singer in the BBC Radio 2 Folk Awards 2003.
Bob started 2003 with a busy schedule which included extensive tours in the UK, a third US tour, a return to Australia to perform at the National Festival in Canberra and Fairbridge Festival in W.A. and continues with appearances at some of the most prestigious Folk Festivals in England throughout the Spring/Summer. He has also signed a 3 CD deal with TOPIC RECORDS, the first one entitled “BORROWED MOMENTS” was released on 3rd Sept and is already receiving ecstatic reviews!
Bob was nominated Best Folk Singer once again in the 2004 Folk Awards and his version of the Chris Leslie song My Love is in America, recorded on Borrowed Moments, gained a nomination for Best Original Song.
For info visit Bob’s website www.bobfoxmusic.com or the agency website www.iconicmusic.com
“BOB FOX, surely one of the great voices of the whole of the Folk Revival…”
John Muirhead – LIVING TRADITION
“…possibly the most complete male artist in English folk, his quietly impressive “Dreams Never Leave You” is my album of 2000.” Colin Randall – THE DAILY TELEGRAPH
Bob's second TOPIC album released on16th October 2006 already getting rave reviews and his "Special Autumn Tour" with Billy Mitchell has also been going great with a "Live" CD available by end of November.
CONTACT BOB FOX by tel/fax 0191 388 6505 (24hr) mobile 07885 213691
E mail bob@bobfoxmusic.com website www.bobfoxmusic.com
Hello friend Bob Fox: Thank you for having accepted me as your friend. Your repertoire does consist of nice tunes, your voice is tuneful and what really matters: beautiful. Your personal interpretation for "Monday, monday" is topping and even "Mamas and the Pappas" themselves would be glad to hear you out. My felicitations and good luck in all your musical undertakings. Hope you can also hear and evaluate my provincial songs displayed and available here on my site. Cordial thanks and please receive a fraternal musical embrace from you admirer in Brazil,
Oh you charmer! I had a chat about you on Facebook with some old English folkies living here in Ireland - and they're such big fans of the Bob and Stu camp, raving about the 30 anniversary album.... and I'm introducing you to my students in the Ceoltoir Diploma course where I teach in term time..... loads of fans over here! Hope to do a gig WITH you sometime instead of just having breakfast! Gigs are coming in and I'm off to USA/Canada this summer, oh and Italy too. I'll be in the UK in September - tiny tiny gigs though - so I must work on getting more. Take care x
...thanks for adding, and the possibility to listen to those wonderful and gentle music,we wish you success and also great ideas for and with your music, greetings from germany,
Every time that we listen & write music... play an instrument... dance... act in a play... or work in some audio/image/video engineering process... something is healing inside...
When we share it with friends... something is healing all over...
Love can drive... in a simple way... everything
We are connected
Vibejays & Friends
------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Estimada/o BOB FOX,
cada vez que escuchamos o escribimos musica... tocamos un instrumento... bailamos... o trabajamos en procesos de ingenieria de audio/imagen/video.... algo se sana por dentro...
Cuando lo compartimos con amigos... algo se sana en todas partes...
El Amor puede conducir... de manera simple... todo...
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