Buddha in a Chocolate Box

Buddha in a Chocolate Box was the name of a band from Hamilton formed in 2005. Members met through school. The name from the 1974 Cat Stevens album Buddha AND the Chocolate Box. In 2015 frontman Adrian Calvano told Forte magazine about the artist’s influence: “I grew up listening to Cat Stevens – my mum used to play it all the time. What I love about him is the fact that he’s not pigeon-holed. He’s not folk, he’s not rock, he’s not pop – and that’s how I base my writing. I want to make music about whatever I’m feeling at the moment, and I think Cat was a bit the same.” Starting out threw up a few challenges – chiefly being people seemed largely uninterested in giving a band from Hamilton a shot. They established a large following in Port Fairy and Warrnambool and expanded nationwide The band released their appropriately titled debut, The Keep on Keepin’ On EP, in 2010. In 2015 they changed their name to "The Settlement"