Jay and the Doctor return to the airwaves – watch out Kyle and Jackie O
If Kyle and Jackie O were humbled by the tepid response to their Melbourne arrival in 2024, then the return of two of their most infamous agitators is hardly going to make for a pleasant start to 2025.
Triple J favourites Jay and the Doctor — Jay Whalley and Lindsay McDougall from Frenzal Rhomb — will be returning to the radio, this time on the more era-appropriate Double J. They’ll be the first to host the Artist[s] in Residence series, Sunday afternoons from 3pm.
For those unfamiliar with the battle between the ex-triple j broadcasters, and Sandilands and Henderson, it started back in 2004, when Henderson was a cool nine-hours’ late to MC a music festival, forcing headliners Frenzal Rhomb to push back their set by hours, and condense it by cutting songs.
By the time Henderson arrived, the band were furious, and McDougall simply played the riff to Thunderstruck over her attempts to talk to the audience.
Expletives were dropped, Henderson left the stage in tears – and it was over.
Until, of course, Sandilands decided to bring the duo onto The Kyle and Jackie O show, then the top rating show on Fox FM, in an attempt to chastise them. Of course, his hubris didn’t account for the fact that McDougall and Whalley were smarter, funnier, and more informed then he, laying waste to Kyle and Jackie on their own high-rating show.
Listen below for the finest 10 minutes of Australian radio history.
In a further hilarious irony, later that year triple j announced Whalley and McDougall as the new Breakfast host on triple j, where they would compete directly with Kyle and Jackie O in the Sydney market – while sailing into a national breakfast radio show – the one remaining prize the self-proclaimed King Kyle still covets.
What a punch in the face.
Tune in from this Sunday, at 3pm, via the ABC listen app.
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Nathan Jolly is the Features Editor at Mumbrella. He joined the team in July, 2023.
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i hope age has not wearied them and they continue to call out the bullshit that has become more and more normalised
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Best news I’ve heard all day. These two are bloody legends
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