Public Address Podcast

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

 

 

 

CONTENT WITH THE CONTENT

Public Address: CONTENT WITH THE CONTENT

The reasons for including the recordings in Public Address vary, but each of them is a part of the background for anyone making records thereafter. Some are here because they brought a new musical idea into the framework of rock 'n' roll or general contemporary music - whether it be piano, guitar, bass; brass, strings. Others redefined the use of an instrument - electric guitar, back-beat drums, electric bass, electric piano. And each new way of using a voice is represented by the people who developed it first - and by those who followed. Thom McKeown, Music Enthusiast/Presenter/Producer

Writtten Produced and Presented by Thom McKeown © 2024

PUBLIC ADDRESS 300

Public Address: 300

The 300th edition of this contemporary fast-moving music programme Public Address with Thom McKeown - where the music always comes first!

Written Produced and Presented by Thom McKeown © 2024

AUDIO FOR AFFICIONADOS

Public Address: AUDIO FOR AFFICIONADOS

"This land is your land and this land is my land, sure, but the world is run by those who never listen to music anyway." Bob Dylan, Musician

Written Produced and Presented by Thom McKeown © 2024

 

 

 

MOVING PICTURES EXPERT GROUP AUDIO LAYER THREE

Public Address: MOVING PICTURES EXPERT GROUP AUDIO LAYER THREE

MP3, or Motion Picture Expert Group Audio Layer 3, was originally developed in 1987 at the Fraunhofer Institute for Integrated Circuits IIS-A in Germany, with some assistance from the University of Erlangen with support from other digital scientists in other countries. Originally defined as the third audio format of the MPEG-1 standard, it was retained and further extended—defining additional bit rates and support for more audio channels—as the third audio format of the subsequent MPEG-2 standard. A third version, known as MPEG-2.5—extended to better support lower bit rates—is commonly implemented but is not a recognised standard. So now you know! Two hours of splendid music in this mp3 format awaits your ears on this edition of Public Address!

Written Produced and Presented by Thom McKeown © 2024

 

 

TENUOUS LINK

Public Address: TENUOUS LINK

How does it work? Well - a random track is chosen – and from there it's linked in some way via a deeply meaningful or extremely trivial connection to the next track and so on – in a circuitous fashion over the next hour or so, concluding with a grand finale tenuous link, leading us back to a direct connection with the very first chosen song or artist!

Written Produced and Presented by Thom McKeown © 2024

SLEEP

Public Address: SLEEP

Three uninterrupted hours of peaceful, calming, nocturnal slumber music to ease you into sleep.

Produced & Edited by Thom McKeown © 2024

IT'S SHOWTIME!

Public Address: IT'S SHOWTIME

I feel that any time you enter a dream world it's like you're working out things, it's all inside your mind and you're working it out, be it Dorothy in The Wizard of Oz, or the kids in Narnia, they go through this weird journey that's not real, and they're going through this journey psychologically. It's that journey of discovery, of getting onself together, that fantasy and fairy tales are so good at. And while some people still look upon them as completely unrealistic, for me they're more real than most things that are perceived as real. Music helps with this - people always need music. Tim Burton Film Maker

Written Produced and Presented by Thom McKeown © 2024

SNAZZY!

Public Address: SNAZZY!

Music is like a drug - but there are no rehabilitation centres. Morrissey, Musician

Written Produced and Presented by Thom McKeown © 2024

THIS IS NOT A DRILL

Public Address: THIS IS NOT A DRILL

“I think the music reflects the state that society’s in. It doesn’t suggest the state. I think poets, musicians, artists or whatever they are of the age, not only do they lead that age on but they reflect the age. And I think that’s what music is doing – it’s mainly reflecting." John Lennon, Musician

Written Produced and Presented by Thom McKeown © 2024

HEARING AID

Public Address: HEARING AID

I guess music is the only form of schizophrenia that has organised itself into being both legal and beneficial to society. Alexis Korner Musician

Written Produced and Presented by Thom McKeown © 2024

HEAD SPACE

Public Address: HEAD SPACE

Public Address presents Head Space – two laid-back hours of music, characterised by slower tempos and more relaxed moods, with a bare minimum of verbal interludes, merely to inform listeners of the artist and titles you’ll hear.

Written Produced and Edited by Thom McKeown © 2024

HIGHER FIDELITY

Public Address: HIGHER FIDELITY

"A great song can make us feel like we're flying, even when our feet are firmly on the ground." This quote beautifully captures the transformative power of music. John Peel DJ and Broadcaster

Written Produced and Presented by Thom McKeown © 2024