Playing Singles and Drinking Doubles

Roddy & Gabriel Fleet FM
Back in 2009, I discovered this crazy radio show that was on Fleet FM Tuesday afternoons, called ‘Playing Singles and Drinking Doubles’ —if that name wasn’t brilliant enough, their music selections were out of this world. I didn’t know these guys at that stage, (well I had met Roddy at Frisbee studios on Albert St and seen his band Supercar play a couple of times), but this radio show was such a breath of fresh air, in that it plundered a vast catalogue of often not before heard (in their own words) “Country, Honky Tonk, Bluegrass, Western Swing, & tragic songs about life.”
After listening to ‘Playing Singles and Drinking Doubles’ whenever possible, I would download the podcasts of the shows, and sometimes save the show’s Fleet FM webpage as a PDF. I am making them available at this time, to honour the passing of our darling friend Roderick MacLellan (aka Roddy Pain) 1/10/71 – 2/2/2016. The Fleet FM website is now long gone, although there is a skeletal archive, but links to the podcasts are dead.
IMG_2471 Roddy shrine Kings Arms 1600 VIG
I met Gabriel today at Roddy’s wake, and he explained that the pair got so f**ked up on the day of the actual broadcast, it required a full recovery day afterwards, and this also resulted in them not saving any recordings themselves of the shows. So here are fifteen mostly 60 minute podcasts, some with their accompanying tracklists by way of the above mentioned PDFs. (Please note that links in the PDFs are dead, but the tracklists are good.)
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What makes these shows so special, is that the between-song banter has been severely messed with, all of the voiceovers have been rendered either chipmunk or demonic and at times the studio is either burning down with crackling fire sound effects, or under siege by a flock of squawking chickens, howling hyenas or growling doggies! But the choice of music is always top shelf.
Thanks to Roddy and Gabriel, and Fleet FM for that wonderful show, I only wish that I had saved more of them. Enjoy! —Kawowski

Playing Singles Drinking Doubles 16 playlist
Playing Singles Drinking Doubles 16a audio (29MB)
Playing Singles Drinking Doubles 16b audio (29MB)