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"We played for hours and hours in this shearing shed, I'll never forget the smell of the lanolin in the wood."
A band sitting in the back of a van.

"I wish we still played shearing shed gigs, I think it would make a fabulous independent tour, going to sheds around Australia,"
she said.

A singer performs on a shearing shed stage.

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"Bands have cut their teeth on those type of gigs — it was a big part of the music biz,"
Mr Gomm said.
A band plays in a shearing shed.

Man sits in shearing shed in regional western australia.

"It was a fantastic hobby — at rehearsal you'd sit around and talk about farming for half an hour, we were all wool growers comparing notes,"
he said.

A dog walks in the shearing shed

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