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Thread #29294   Message #2130286
Posted By: GUEST,Gerry McArdle
21-Aug-07 - 06:40 AM
Thread Name: Help: Oz: Mulga Bill's Bicycle Band
Subject: RE: Help: Oz: Mulga Bill's Bicycle Band
This is years after the event. Mulga Bill's Bicycle Band (title comes from a Banjo Patterson verse) began as a group of students from Latrobe University at the Polaris Inn in Melbourne in the early 1970s. I was just arrived from Ireland, and used to sing there sometimes on Friday nights in 1972. The Bushwhacker's Band also evolved from that group, and I have some of their CDs. I was hoping the Polaris might be there still, as I will be revisitng Australia in October this yeaar, 2007. Alas, it seems to have disappeared.
Gerry.