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Thread #29294   Message #3576175
Posted By: GUEST,Don Reis
16-Nov-13 - 05:56 AM
Thread Name: Help: Oz: Mulga Bill's Bicycle Band
Subject: RE: Help: Oz: Mulga Bill's Bicycle Band
Hi, Marsh Robinson was in the folk group Shearer's Nightmare in the early 1980s. They were based in Rockhampton. They released one album of mostly self penned tunes in 1984 on the Larrikin label [LRF 149] called Burning Sleepers. A friend of mine called Paul Keating [not the ex-PM] was also a member along with Rob Brock, Barbara Bowman and Mick McGinty. I saw Mulga BIll's Bicycle Band on Thursday Island while I was teaching there in 1974. Paul was a high school teacher there at the time and I guess this is where he first met Marsh. One of the band spent most of the day before the concert riding around the island on a penny farthing bike.