The Doctor’s Heading To Soundwave

Fresh from exiting triple j after his long stint as the host of Drive, Lindsay McDougall aka The Doctor will join the Soundwave Festival team to “take the pulse of this year’s Soundwave inpatients”. From this Sunday, 21st December, fans can access a series of in-depth interviews by McDougall with Soundwave artists, every week until March 2015.

Feature artists will be announced every Wednesday on the Soundwave Festival Facebook page and published every Sunday at 7pm AEDT on the Soundwave Festival website. To kick things off, The Doctor will be chatting with Smashing Pumpkins ringleader Billy Corgan, after the band’s inclusion on the latest wave of acts announced for the festival.

“I’ve been going to Soundwave since it was a much smaller punk and metal festival down the bottom of my street in Newtown, and I’ve interviewed bands playing Soundwave pretty much as long,” says McDougall on the Soundwave Festival site. “And now I get to combine the two; chat to heaps of rad punk and metal bands, both new and old, for the Soundwave website. I get to talk to Exodus, Steel Panther, and Judas Priest! And, I probably get to go to Soundwave again as well. Tops!”

“Lindsay has spent the better part of the last 10 years as one of Triple J’s leading radio presenters, first co-hosting breakfast and then later moving to drive time,” says the festival “He’s easily one of the most experienced presenters / interviewers in the country and a punk rocker at heart!”

McDougall’s punk rock cred remains unchallenged. Upon his exit from triple j, The Doctor said he plans to focus on making more music, as guitarist with venerated punk band Frenzal Rhomb.

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