The Doctor f***s off

After 10 year of presenting on Triple J, Lindsay McDougall, a.k.a The Doctor has hung up his headphones.

The Doctor’s first on air shift at the J’s was in 2005 as a breakfast presenter alongside Frenzal Rhmob bandmate Jay Whalley. He continued for five years through various changes in presenters until 2010 when he took over the drive seat.

October saw McDougall announcing his departure in style, playing a song titled “I’m F***ing Off” that assured listeners that he was leaving to pursue music and his marriage, not because of the recent cuts to the ABC.

His final shift saw a variety of listeners, musicians and friends ringing in to thank him for keeping them company at home, at work and in traffic jams. The Triple J staff busted rhymes for him in a rap song and he ran his 5 After 5 segment where callers explained big things the future had in stall for them.

Celebrations for his time at the station began earlier in the week with as he hosted an OB on thursday from his very own F***ing Off party. Among Andy Bull, Art vs Science, The Jezabels and other musicians present were Triple J alumni Tom Ballard, Marieke Hardy and Myf Warhurst.

On her fond times with The Doctor, Missy Higgins said “I think my favourite interview with Lindsay so far is when he kept referring to my pregnant belly as my “ukulele ledge”! Chatting with Lindsay’s like chatting with an old mate, which is exactly the way you want all interviews to be.”

John Butler from the John Butler Trio described him as “Lindsay, the man in the safari suit, the vegan, the guitarist from that punk band that wrote that song about Russell Crow, The Doctor, the man who went head to head with me in a Busk Off… the list just goes on.”

In an interview with the Sydney Morning Herald earlier this week, The Doctor explained that among all the fond memories from his time at the station, he particularly enjoyed writing last year’s chart topping Christmas Number One, from which all the proceeds went to the Red Cross.

His low point however, involved awarding a musical idol Josh Homme from Queens of the Stone Age the “Friday F**wit” award live on air after he stood up Tom and Alex for an interview earlier in the week. The award led to Homme supposedly verbally abusing his producer off air.

In his time at Triple J, Lindsay registered over 2,200 radio shows, with more than 6,100 hours on air. He has performed around 3520 interviews from 26 Australian cities, from Sydney to the Sunshine Coast, Townsville to Tumby Bay, Cowra to Karratha and everywhere in between.

Tags: |