The Cuckoos are a musical group from Melbourne, Australia noted for their epic Elvis Presley/Roy Orbison-style inspirational power ballads and lyrically cheeky rock songs. The band is made up of members from a variety of notable Melbourne acts including Little Red, Hercules in NY and Grizzly Jim Lawrie.
There are two bands with this name: 1) The Coolies were an Atlanta-based band that put together two off-beat records on DB records. The first, 1986's dig . . .?, was a set of Simon & Garfunkel songs with weird styles (surf, psychedelia, funk, etc). In 1988 they released Doug (and thus having their two albums naming out a 1980s video game fave, Dig Doug), a rock opera that tells the story of a skinhead who murders a transvestite short-order cook, sells the victim's recipes to gain fame and fortune only to subsequently develop paranoia and substance abuse and end up in the gutter.
Sydney-based band Toucan create jazz-influenced 'brainy' pop.
'Londons Kings of Surf Noir...'NME The best fez-wearing surf band to rock the Big Chill and Bestival festivals!