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Blending reggae rock with Indigenous storytelling the Doomadgee based DMC Boys have become rockstars across north-west Queensland. Now, they’re dreaming for more and blazing the trail for other young regional musicians to follow.

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00:02Under Outback Skies and the state's northwest, the DMC boys are captivating a home crowd.
00:10I had no idea how to play any instruments when we first went in.
00:13Pretty much just made ourselves learn.
00:18From the remote golf community of Doomadgee, this reggae rock outfit are local stars.
00:23We've got younger boys who are coming along now and wanting to join in and learn music
00:28and sing and play a guitar or a drum or whatever, so we've definitely made an effect in our community.
00:35But finding their sound hasn't always been easy.
00:39Nerve, a bit of shame, like you get a bit of guilt, a bit of shyness.
00:48Now they're showing the stage with acclaimed Australian act, King Stingray.
00:52Real hooky songs, the choruses, like, yeah, that golf country boys, those tunes, yeah, some great songs.
00:59It's very important to see representations of people that left our region and gone away and made themselves good.
01:07They've started looking past the golf.
01:09We're hoping that maybe in the next few years we might be, well, worldwide.
01:17We really want to try and be somebody and something for our people.
01:22And while their plans are big, their message is simple.
01:25Never let your dream fall.
01:28And the story may be true and bad.
01:28Obviously the story may come from one day to another video or another at 24-7 vivo circus vorher work.
01:28PPE.
01:34And that's where we are.
01:352018 is a month from Yunyi.
01:35We're hoping thisigan offered to do many very problems.

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