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International touring blues rock band Catfish have been nominated in five categories in the 2021 UK blues awards. In 2020's UK Blues Awards they were named Band of the Year and Matt Long the guitarist was named Blues Instrumentalist of the Year. In 2018 they won the UK Blues Award for Blues Act of the Year (England) to add to their 2016 British Blues Award for keyboard player of the year (Paul Long).

In the last few years, they have played at almost every major UK blues festival. They now tour regularly in Europe.

Their first two albums 'So Many Roads' and ‘Broken Man’ both reached no. 1 in the IBBA airplay charts. The second of these, ‘Broken Man’, was also nominated for a UK Blues Award and was named album of the year by the IBBA. Their third album 'Burning Bridges' was released in May 2019. It was the third most played album by the Independent Blues Broadcasters Association in 2019 and was nominated for a UK blues award for 2020 as album of the year. Catfish released a new live CD and DVD set on 1 December 2020 'Exile - Live in Lockdown’ which was recorded during lockdown at a full band live stream.