Public Address Podcast

AN ENTERTAINMENT DELIGHT

Public Address: AN ENTERTAINMENT DELIGHT

• "I've always felt that it's the point of the artist to try and challenge themselves and the audience at the same time. Irony is a powerful, sincere force. Being able to reveal yourself without irony can be very pretentious. We've never been a band that likes to take itself too seriously, and sometimes when it comes across too seriously, I try to keep it theatrical. You can quite happily exist in your own version of the world built around you, which you can build for yourself. As human beings, we create belief systems that make us feel happy with the choices we make. You'd have a lot of unhappy people regretting everything if they didn't create the belief system in which they could explain all their choices and feel like they've done the right thing."

  Robert Del Naja/3D, Musician (Massive Attack)

   

  Written Produced and Presented by Thom McKeown © 2024

IT'S OVER

Public Address: IT'S OVER

Let’s be honest, a break-up is one of the hardest experiences that you can go through in life. While relationships can be tough enough at the best of times, when you have to say goodbye, for better or for worse, it's never easy. Whether you’ve been together for just a couple of weeks or for several years, ending things with someone that you have given your heart and love to can leave you feeling devastated, utterly heartbroken and lost. While you're trying to get over a split, there are plenty of songs out there that will say the things you can't. Here in this Public Address special - you'll hear quite a few - so you're not alone in feeling so bereft.

Written Produced and Presented by Thom McKeown © 2024

SOMETHING IN THE AIR

Public Address: SOMETHING IN THE AIR

"There's always the possibility that you're going to come across a record that transforms your life. It's like a leaf on the stream. There are little currents and sticks lying in the water that nudge you in a slightly different direction. And then you break loose and carry on down the current. There's nothing that actually stops you and lifts you out of the water and puts you on the bank but there are diversions and distractions and alarums and excursions which is what makes life interesting really. It's fantastic." John Peel, Broadcaster/DJ

Written Produced and Presented by Thom McKeown © 2024

CHRISTMAS SPECIAL

Public Address: CHRISTMAS SPECIAL 2024

The annual festive celebration featuring two hours of tinsel-infused music and interjections to help enhance your seasonal delight.

Written Produced and Presented by Thom McKeown © 2024

 

 

NEW COUNTRY

Public Address: NEW COUNTRY

Story songs are one of new country music's greatest assets. Telling stories that hook listeners has been a hallmark of the genre since it evolved some years ago. Many artists into the 21st century, have recorded vivid stories set to music in a fresh era of New Country. In this edition, you’ll hear some of the very best story songs in this field. These performers, and the writers behind these tunes, have captured listeners' attention with their impressive attention to detail.

Written Produced and Presented by Thom McKeown © 2022/2024

Discover It Now!

Public Address: DISCOVER IT NOW!

"Everybody's playing the game but nobody's rules are the same... Never make a promise or plan. Take a little love where you can... Never stay too long in your bed. Never lose your heart, use your head... Never take a stranger's advice. Never let a friend fool you twice... Never be the first to believe. Never be the last to deceive... Never leave a moment too soon. Never waste a hot afternoon... Never stay a minute too long. Don't forget the best will go wrong... Better learn to go it alone. Recognise you're out on your own. Nobody's on nobody's side." Sir Tim Rice, Lyricist

Written Produced and Presented by Thom McKeown © 2024

BRACE FOR IMPACT

Public Address: BRACE FOR IMPACT

"Music is like a psychiatrist. You can tell your guitar things that you can't tell people - and it will answer you with things people can't tell you."        Sir Paul McCartney Musician

Written Produced and Presented by Thom McKeown © 2024

YOUR MUSIC RENDEZVOUS

Public Address: YOUR MUSIC RENDEZVOUS

"A pale sun poked impudent marmalade fingers through the grizzled lattice glass, and sent the shadows scurrying, like convent girls menaced by a tramp." Vivian Stanshall English singer-songwriter, musician, author, poet and wit, best known for his work with the Bonzo Dog (Doo Dah) Band

Written Produced and Presented by Thom McKeown © 2024

ON THE AIR

Public Address: ON THE AIR

"People are people. They laugh, cry, feel, and love - and music seems to be the common denomination that brings us all together. Music cuts through all boundaries and goes right to the soul." Willie Nelson Musician

Written Produced and Presented by Thom McKeown © 2024

MUSIC BOX

Public Address: MUSIC BOX

“I explored rock culture and what the guitar can do through people like Jimmy Page and John McLaughlin, and the music moves away from pop.” Johnny Marr Musician

Written Produced and Presented by Thom McKeown © 2024

IF YOU DON'T LISTEN ... you'll never hear it

Public Address: IF YOU DON'T LISTEN -- you'll never hear it!

"I was sleeping in the woods one night after a gig we'd played somewhere, when I saw this girl appear before me. That girl was Emily. (On how he wrote "See Emily Play") "Chapter 24" - that was from the "I Ching", there was someone around who was very into that, most of the words came straight off that. "Lucifer Sam" was another one - it didn't mean much to me at the time, but then three or four months later it came to mean a lot." Syd Barrett, Pink Floyd original member

Written Produced and Presented by Thom McKeown © 2024

MASH-UP MIX HOUR

Public Address: MASH-UP MIX HOUR

A one-hour one-off special of Mash-Ups. A mash-up is a creative work, by blending two or more pre-recorded songs, typically by superimposing the vocal track of one song seamlessly over the instrumental track of another and changing the tempo and key where necessary. How many performers can you recognise and from which original tracks?

Mixed and Produced by Thom McKeown © 2024

THE VERY DAB

Public Address: THE VERY DAB

Every musical movement that is big enough has to produce some good musicians who wouldn't have had the incentive to start playing without it. Alexis Korner Musician and Broadcaster

Written Produced and Presented by Thom McKeown © 2024

HALLOWEEN

Public Address: HALLOWEEN

That creepy, haunted, blood-curdling event each year is upon us – which means it’s time for the acclaimed annual Public Address Halloween Special! Two nerve-wrangling, spine-tingling hours of macabre melodies as the ghoulies and ghosties emerge to wreak horrifying havoc in your ears. Allow your hesitant listening organs to take it in, with anticipatory anguish, if the moonlit hour allows your visceral velocity to withstand the audio terrors therein! Woooooooooooaaaaahhhhhh!

Written Produced and Presented by Thom McKeown © 2024

 

QUITE THE THING

Public Address: QUITE THE THING

"I always say a song is like a woman, you don't know what it is until it's in the room." Mark E Smith, musician

Written Produced and Presented by Thom McKeown © 2024

 

SOUND DECISION

Public Address: SOUND DECISION

Rock'n'roll is an attitude, it's not a musical form of a strict sort. It's a way of doing things, of approaching things. Writing can be rock 'n' roll, or a movie can be rock 'n' roll. It's a way of living your life. Lester Bangs, American music journalist

Written Produced and Presented by Thom McKeown © 2024

RELAXEZ-VOUS - SLOWER SESSION

Public Addres: RELAXEZ-VOUS - SLOWER SESSION

A specially extended 4-hour Public Address laid-back sesssion of calming, relaxed, less-frenetically-paced music to help you unwind and feel more at ease.

Written Produced and Presented by Thom McKeown © 2024

SIDELOADED

Public Address: SIDELOADED

"When I did The White Stripes we were trying to trick people into not realising we were playing the blues. We did not want to come off like white kids trying to play black music from 100 years ago so a great way to distract them was by dressing in red, white, and black. I'd dabbled in things like Howlin’ Wolf, Cream, and Led Zeppelin, but when I heard Son House and Robert Johnson, it blew my mind. It was something I’d been missing my whole life. That music made me discard everything else and just get down to the soul and honesty of the blues." JACK WHITE Musician

Written Produced and Presented by Thom McKeown © 2024

TASTE THE MUSIC

Public Address: TASTE THE MUSIC

"I can't compose or play music; I'm not that fortunate. But I can write and I can talk and sometimes when I'm doing either of these things I realise that I've written a sentence or uttered a thought that I didn't absolutely know I had in me... until I saw it on the page or heard myself say it - and music is a stimulant I cannot be without". Christopher Hitchens Celebrated maverick polemical journalist whose career was a rollercoaster of love and loathing

Written Produced and Presented by Thom McKeown © 2024

PSYCHEDELICIOUS!

Public Address: PSYCHEDELICIOUS!

Psychedelic music (sometimes called psychedelia) is a wide range of popular music styles and genres - a style of rock music that was largely inspired by hallucinogens, or so-called “mind-expanding” drugs such as marijuana and LSD (lysergic acid diethylamide; “acid”) - enhanced through the use of feedback, electronics, and intense volume - and has been found to have a significant influence on psychedelic therapy. In this 2 hour Public Address special, Thom McKeown explores some audio examples in Psychedelicious!

Written Produced and Presented by Thom McKeown © 2024