‘Aus Radio Didn’t Want To Play Us’: How The Local Industry Blocked Indecent Obsession
They had hits all in excess of the environment, but there was just one detail late ’80s/early ’90s synthpop band Indecent Obsession couldn’t take care of – and that was to get performed on Australian radio.
In the new episode of podcast A Journey Via Aussie Pop, David Dixon, the former singer of the team that Molly Meldrum snapped up for Melodian Records, talks about the battle Indecent Obsession had acquiring acceptance at home.
Though in the beginning thriving on the ARIA chart thanks to new music video perform and teenager magazine protection, with Say Goodbye and Convey to Me Some thing the two going major 20, the band experienced hassle acquiring the radio guidance they desperately essential for observe-up releases.
“Radio did not want to participate in us because we weren’t grownup orientated rock. We had been pop. And the only time we seemed to get any airplay was in the top 40 at evening,” he explained. “It wasn’t quick all all-around back again then to have a productive Australian pop band. There have been a lot of hurdles alongside the way.”
The deficiency of encouragement from their property state was in particular apparent on next album Indio, released 30 yrs in the past. Dixon unveiled that when they were advertising and marketing the report in Australia, supportive DJs would explain to the band they ended up “just not allowed” to participate in their songs.
“It was seriously irritating and definitely very odd,” he recalled. “If you have been an global pop act, you’d get performed on the radio, but if you were being an Australian pop act, you wouldn’t. And I could under no circumstances figure it out. In the relaxation of the planet, we have been just acquired as yet another band. We did not seriously have any fight to get played on the radio in other nations around the world.”
Dixon also described why he still left Indecent Obsession at the peak of their intercontinental achievement, which noticed them topping the chart in South Africa and acquiring hits all over the place from the US to France to Indonesia.
“We had triple platinum sales, we did stadium displays, but I went, ‘Actually, this is not what I want,’” he described. “This is not what I assumed it was likely to be and I just made the decision that I’d had enough.
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