Kuckles ( Broome kriol for '' cockles'') was an Australian band. They formed in 1981 by students from

Broome, Western Australia Broome, also known as Rubibi by the Yawuru people, is a coastal pearling and tourist town in the Kimberley region of Western Australia, north of Perth. In the the population was recorded as 14,660. It is the largest town in the Kimberley regi ...

studying at the Centre for Aboriginal Studies in Music in

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. Their music moved from acoustic calypso toward an electric reggae/rock style. They recorded an audition tape, ''Milliya Rumarra'', which won them a trip to Germany to the Third Annual International Cologne Song Festival in 1982. They returned to Broome later that year and disbanded. Kuckles contributed to Chi's musicals '' Bran Nue Dae'' and '' Corrugation Road''. Chi and Manolis later were part of a new band called Bingurr which is moonlight in Bardi. Pigram played with

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and

The Pigram Brothers The Pigram Brothers are a seven-piece Indigenous Australian band from the pearling town of Broome, Western Australia, formed in 1996. They were heavily involved in Broome's musical and theatrical exports – forming the original backing band f ...

Discography

Studio albums

Soundtrack albums

Awards and nominations

Deadly Awards

The

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were an annual celebration of Australian Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander achievement in music, sport, entertainment and community. They ran from 1995 to 2013. (wins only) , - , rowspan="2",

1998 1998 was designated as the ''International Year of the Ocean''. Events January * January 6 – The ''Lunar Prospector'' spacecraft is launched into orbit around the Moon, and later finds evidence for frozen water, in soil in permanently s ...

, ''Corrugation Road'' (with Jimmy Chi and The Pigram Brothers) , Excellence in Film or Theatrical Score , , -

References

* {{DEFAULTSORT:Knuckles Indigenous Australian musical groups Western Australian musical groups Musical groups established in 1981 Musical groups disestablished in 1982 People from Broome, Western Australia