At the risk of getting on-topic... ;-)
It's a risk we have to take... <grin>
Reading that interview with Jimmy (the one with the .au website) got me thinking... He said that he'd recently got a royalty check from KLF tracks being played on Aus radio. Do you think he just said that because he was talking to an Aussie, or do you think it's true?
Well, as far as I know the only KLF CDs you can buy new in Australia now are the Arista imports, which I guess means that Liberation's licence has expired. So the KLF are as dead in Australia as they are in the UK in that respect. As to radio stations playing their songs... I think they still pop up every now and then. Hell, the Stadium House trilogy were all top 10 hits so why shouldn't they continue to get a bit of air play? They are *good* dance songs, and as such don't date as badly as other songs that just cashed in on the dance sound of the early 90s. Radio 1 played "Justified and Ancient" earlier this week, so they're still getting some royalties over here. (And they must be getting royalty checks from America whenever Wanda Dee impersonates them.)
The majority of stations over here are commercial and tend not to play anything that they are not plugging/being paid to play/current releases/etc.
I thought commercial Australian radio was pretty mediocre when I lived there, but having lived in the UK for a few years now I realise how lucky I was. Radio 1 has the smallest rotating play list of any radio station I've ever heard. Give me Triple M in Sydney with their "classic rock" play list anytime.
Of course there are exceptions (including the mighty jjj) but I can't imagine them playing KLF either...
Broadband users over here, tune in to JJJ or Nova FM on the net... You'll be glad you did. Michael