Cirrus@Austlit

Kuckles emerged from a vibrant music scene in Broome in the 1960s and 1970s, in the days before television came to town. The above line-up formed in 1981 when a number of Broome musicians travelled to Adelaide to study at the Centre for Aboriginal Studies in Music (CASM), drawn there by the success of other newly formed Aboriginal bands such as No Fixed Address, Us Mob, and Coloured Stone, and by the opportunity to focus full time on their music. Kuckles created a distinctive Broome sound by using traditional language with a fusion of country, folk, rock, and reggae. The title track of their groundbreaking 1981 recording 'Milliya Rumarra' translates from the Yawuru language as first (or brand new) day. Each of the Kuckles members was involved to varying degrees in the early workshopping of Bran Nue Dae.