The Pukka Orchestra was a Canadian ‘new wave’ band based in Toronto, Canada in the 1980s and 1990s and became an important and revered contributor to the ‘Queen Street’ music scene of that era. The band comprised vocalist/guitarist/songwriter Graeme Williamson and guitarists/co-songwriters Neil Chapman and Tony Duggan-Smith. They had a Top 40 hit in Canada with a cover of Tom Robinson/Peter Gabriel’s “Listen to the Radio” and other singles “Cherry Beach Express” and “Might As Well Be on Mars” received widespread FM radio play. The group previously released two albums, an EP, and several singles, and won a CASBY/U-Know Award (CFNY 102 The Edge) for ‘Most Promising Group’ in 1985.
The band is back after more than a two-decade hiatus. The album, Chaos Is Come Again, is a collection of updated, reworked, remixed, and remastered tracks being widely released for the first time. The original basic tracks were available only to friends and local fans in the 1980s/1990s. These new recordings were posthumously finished by The Pukka Orchestra co-founders Neil Chapman and Tony Duggan-Smith after the death of Graeme Williamson, the voice and main writer of The Pukka Orchestra.
You can listen and share the album here
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