Welcome to the Official Website

Like a bird balanced on the edge of a razor blade, singing in the rain, Cockatoo dances on the precipices of the ethereal and the raw, the passionate and the delicate.

Emerging from the underground with "a deceptively fierce heart, even as it smiles sweetly at the listener through the dust, dancing in shafts of sunlight", (Nemesis To Go Magazine, UK ) Cockatoo are a Post-Punk band based in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada. They are most easily described as an unusual band dancing upon the shoulders of many alternative and post punk greats, such as Siouxsie and The Banshees, The Chameleons,The Cure, Bauhaus, Echo & The Bunnymen, and the Sugar Cubes.Listen Here

Notable shows to date have included opening for The Romantics, Brian Jonestown Massacre, and The Raveonettes.

This Site Under Construction June 2009