Public Address Podcast

BE GOOD DO GOOD FEEL GOOD

Public Address: BE GOOD DO GOOD FEEL GOOD

“I don't know how much more expressive you can get than by being a rock and roll singer.” Robert Plant Musician

Written Produced and Presented by Thom McKeown © 2025

GET IT ON

Public Address: GET IT ON

“There's a fine line between genius and madness, and I'm happily dancing on it.” Marc Bolan Musician

Written Produced and Presented by Thom McKeown  © 2025

MEDIOCRITY IMPOSSIBLE

Public Address: MEDIOCRITY: IMPOSSIBLE

'There's the paradox of making pop music when you're in your 50s. People weren't meant to be doing that originally and yet now they are. Mick Jagger used to say "we're not going to be doing Satisfaction when I'm in a wheelchair".' Neil Tennant Musician Pet Shop Boys

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VERSION 2

Public Address: VERSION 2

Since the 1950s, musicians have been playing what they call cover versions (the reworking, updating, or re-interpretation) of songs as a tribute to the original performer or group - or indeed a revamp of one of their own particular earlier/previous recordings. Using familiar material is seen as an important method of learning music styles. In Version 2 of Public Address, Thom McKeown has put together yet another varying selection of these, and the programme is 'presented' by his A.I. voice-creation or 'human version' Fontana Cordell.

Written Compiled Edited and Produced by Thom McKeown © 2025

EXTRAORDINARY!

Public Address: EXTRAORDINARY!

"There, in the chords and melodies, is everything I want to say. The words just jolly it along. It’s always been my way of expressing what for me is inexpressible by any other means." David Bowie Musician

Written Produced and Presented by Thom McKeown © 2025

VINYL HELL

Public Address: VINYL HELL

 

Hello music fans, prepared to be tortured on this Public Address Special compiled by Thom McKeown and presented by Vox Deluxe! Over this interminable audio nightmare, beware of your jaw opening and your ears trembling, as you suffer some vinyl horrors from the turntables of the past!

 

Written and Produced by Thom McKeown © 2025

WHAT A GAS!

Public Address: WHAT A GAS!

"I learned very early in life that without a song, the day would never end, without a song, a man ain't got a friend, without a song, the road would never bend - without a song. So I keep singing a song." Elvis Presley, Singer

Written Produced and Presented by Thom McKeown © 2025

 

 

VERSION 1

Public Address: VERSION

Since the 1950s, musicians have been playing what they call cover versions (the reworking, updating, or re-interpretation) of songs as a tribute to the original performer or group - or indeed a revamp of one of their own particular earlier/previous recordings. Using familiar material is seen as an important method of learning music styles. In this special edition of Public Address, Thom McKeown has put together a varying selection of these, and the programme is 'presented' by his A.I. voice-creation or 'human version' Fontana Cordell.

Written and Produced by Thom McKeown © 2025

CHOOSE PUBLIC ADDRESS

Public Address: CHOOSE PUBLIC ADDRESS

"I'm quite into listening to music and not doing anything else. If I think about music in the future, I imagine it often as not involving electricity, in some dystopian, post-apocalyptic future - people making music by taking instruments out of boxes and playing them." Jonny Greenwood Musician Composer

Written Produced and Presented by Thom McKeown © 2025

FIT TO BURST

Public Address: FIT TO BURST

"The two things I like most in life - are girls - and loud music..." Iggy Pop Musician

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The 2 things I like the most are girls and loud noises.

Dig This!

Public Address: DIG THIS!

“I’d make a White Stripes record right now. I’d be in the White Stripes for the rest of my life. That band is the most challenging, important, fulfilling thing ever to happen to me. I wish it was still here. It’s something I really, really miss.” Jack White Musician

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RHYTHMANIA!

Public Address: RHYTHMANIA!

"We play by feel. We reckon that you could put us on any stage, and we would find a way to win that crowd over. We have that attitude: We can't fail. You might not like it right now, but you will." Angus Young Guitarist AC/DC

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SLOW BURN

Public Address: SLOW BURN

"Laid back, lesser-paced music is intended to induce calm and a space to think. Slower music be able to accommodate many levels of listening attention without enforcing one in particular; it must be as ignorable as it is interesting.'' Brian Eno Musician

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MUSIC FOR YOUR MIND AND BODY

Public Address: MUSIC FOR YOUR MIND AND BODY

“When the punk thing came along, I heard boring people saying, I hate these people with the pins in their ears. I said, Thank God, something got their attention.” Neil Young, Musician

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SHOWBIZ

Public Address: SHOWBIZ

"The music side of showbiz is a cruel and shallow money trench, a long plastic hallway where thieves and pimps run free, and good men and women die like dogs There's also a negative side." Hunter S. Thompson American Journalist and Author

Written Produced and Presented by Thom McKeown © 2025

Let It Be Heard

Public Address: LET IT BE HEARD

"It's being here now that's important.  There's no past and there's no future. Time is a very misleading thing. All there is ever, is the now.”    George Harrison, Musician

Written Created and Produced by Thom McKeown 2025

FOR YOUR LISTENING PLEASURE

Public Address: FOR YOUR LISTENING PLEASURE

"When you get music and words together, that can be a very powerful thing. You can never get silence anywhere nowadays, have you noticed? Music is just something that comes to you. You don't question it." Bryan Ferry, Musician

Written Produced and Presented by Thom McKeown 2025

MUSIC ATTITUDE

Public Address: MUSIC ATTITUDE

"The past is never the past. It is always present." Bruce Springsteen Musician

Written and Produced by Thom McKeown 2025

 

 

 

ANYWAY ANYHOW ANYWHERE

Public Address: ANYWAY ANYHOW ANYWHERE

 "The music we play has to be tomorrow's, the things we say have to be today, and the reason for bothering is yesterday". Pete Townshend Musician

Written and Produced by Thom McKeown 2025

A WONDROUS PLACE

Public Address:  A WONDROUS PLACE

"Science will almost certainly never come up with anything as wonderful as the electric guitar." John Peel Broadcaster

Written Edited and Produced by Thom McKeown 2025