Public Address Podcast

IT SHALL BE PLAYED

Public Address IT SHALL BE PLAYED

"Popular music will always be popular, but I don't really know what is rock - and what isn't - anymore. I don't consider a lot of the pop things I hear on the radio to be rock n' roll. It's just kind of fragmented - but that's more than okay! If it's worth being heard, it should be played!" Alice Cooper, Musician

Written Produced and Presented by Thom McKeown © 2023

SOUNDS FROM THE CITY

Public Address: SOUNDS FROM THE CITY

Music allows for free personal expression like painting or writing and fulfils a most practical need - the need to inspire, be made to dance, feel free, forget your worries and be yourself.

Written Produced and Presented by Thom McKeown © 2023

MUSIC FOR ALL

Public Address: MUSIC FOR ALL

 "Music is the art which is most nigh to tears and memory" - Oscar Wilde

Written Produced and Presented by Thom McKeown © 2023

SONIC RENDEZVOUS

Public Address SONIC RENDEZVOUS

"A great deal of today's pop music is comprised of moronic managers who can't think, signing artists who can't write, play or sing, to make records for people who can't hear."  Frank Zappa

Written Produced and Presented by Thom McKeown © 2023

AURAL EXCESS

Public Address AURAL EXCESS

Count your age by friends, not years. Count your life by smiles, not tears.  John Lennon

Written Produced and Presented by Thom McKeown © 2023

RIGHT HERE RIGHT NOW

Public Address RIGHT HERE RIGHT NOW

A PA Dance Mix Special - 2 non-stop hours of electronic dance music - produced as a continuous DJ set, with the tempo varying between 120 and 150 beats per minute (bpm). The central rhythm is in common time (4/4) and characterised by a repetitive four on the floor beat.

Mixed Edited and Produced by Thom McKeown © 2023

 

 

AUDITORIA

Public Address AUDITORIA

Substantial scientific research has shown that listening to good and stimulating music can reduce anxiety, blood pressure and pain - as well as improving sleep quality, mood, mental alertness and memory. Try it out by listening to this programme!

Written Produced and Presented by Thom McKeown © 2023

A.I. SPECIAL - MUSIC IN COLOUR

Public Address: A.I. SPECIAL - MUSIC IN COLOUR

In this special edition of Public Address – A.I. Music In Colour – presented vocally by an Artificial Intelligence-creation - you'll hear a selection of tracks embracing the dappled and kaleidoscopic spectrum of varied colours with compositions featuring one, or in a few cases more, in their respective titles.

Written and Produced by Thom McKeown • Presented by Artie Intell © 2023

SERENADES FOR THE SELECTIVE

Public Address SERENADES FOR THE SELECTIVE

"The first time I heard modern rock music, I fell off my chair, and since then, whenever I hear it - I can't sit down, I have to move around!" Ahmet Ertegun Founder and president of Atlantic Records, who discovered and championed many leading rhythm and blues and rock musicians.

Written Produced and Edited by Thom McKeown © 2023

MELODY MAKER!

Public Address MELODY MAKER

"I never wanted to go back and relive the glory days, I just want to keep moving forward in music. That's what I took from punk. Keep going. Don't look back."

Paul Simonon, formerly of The Clash, now of The Good The Bad and The Queen, Gorillaz, Galen and Paul 

Written Produced and Presented by Thom McKeown © 2023

TIP TOP TUNES

Public Address TIP TOP TUNES

"That's why I do this music business thing, it's communication with people without having the extreme inconvenience of actually phoning anybody up". (Morrissey, 2023)

Written Produced and Presented by Thom McKeown © 2023

TENUOUS LINK 5

Public Address TENUOUS LINK 5

Another in our occasional series Tenuous Link. How does it work? Well - a random track is chosen – and from there it has to be 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, concluding with a grand finale tenuous link, leading us back to a direct connection with the very first chosen song or artist! All clear? Great - then do please start listening!

Written Produced and Presented by Thom McKeown © 2023

A.I. IN MUSIC

Public Address A.I. IN MUSIC

There’s a lot happening in the field of artificial intelligence at the moment - and that goes for music - both in terms of making and producing it. Quite a few musicians who have moved away from manual production are now using AI in the production process. From composition apps and mastering platforms, to song identification tools, AI is changing the way music is created and listened to. The promising technology of the future is still in its infancy, yet as we're all aware, you’re only afraid of what you don’t know. Later in this edition of Public Address you'll hear three chilling examples of Artificial Intelligence at work in music - but before and after, as always, some of the very best in contemporary material. 

Written Produced and Presented by Thom McKeown © 2023

MUSIC FROM THE PAST

Public Address MUSIC FROM THE PAST

A personal selection of some special tracks from music's varied past of contemporary material.

Written Produced and Presented by Thom McKeown

GREAT SONGWRITERS OF THE 1960s

Public Address GREAT SONGWRITERS OF THE 1960s

A special edition of the programme looking back at the amazing output from just some of the greatest songwriters who emerged in contemporary music back in the 1960s.

Written Produced and Presented by Thom McKeown © 2023

70s SPECIAL!

Public Address 70s SPECIAL!

It’s hard to believe, but pop and rock music was nearly two decades old by the time the 1970s rolled around, which meant that things had come a long way. The elements that made it great, however, remained much the same: Electric guitars and a love of the blues underpinned so much of what many acts had to say. As the decade progressed, however, more and more influences seeped in.

The leading lights of rock music’s early 70s contingent would continue to expand their horizons and those years saw some of the best rock songs of the genre’s history. Then soul funk emerged, and music from Black artists was busy soundtracking dance floors the world over before disco moved in.

Punk then swept away everything bloated and old before it and it did feel that way during the last few years of the 70s. Here's a fond listen back to just some of the pivotal music from that extraordinary decade.

Written Produced and Presented by Thom McKeown © 2023

THIRD ANNIVERSARY EDITION!

Public Address THIRD ANNIVERSARY EDITION

All set for opening the audio door on this, the Third Anniversary celebration edition of Public Address - three whole years of the programme now completed - and hopefully you'll enjoy the selection on offer here.

Written Produced and Presented by Thom McKeown © 2023

ECCENTRICS OF MUSIC

Public Address ECCENTRICS OF MUSIC

In the first hour of this edition - a blistering selection of contemporary music - then in hour two In we’ll hear from some real eccentrics of the music world purveying their highly distinctive styles!

Written Produced and Presented by Thom McKeown © 2023

THE SOUNDS OF MUSIC

Public Address THE SOUNDS OF 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. That has to be the way with songwriters and composers!" (Christopher Hitchens)

Written Produced and Presented by Thom McKeown © 2023

SLOW BURN

Public Address SLOW BURN - A Special Laidback Music Podcast

Two hours of completely uninterrupted slow burning music to lie back and unwind to

Edited and Produced by Thom McKeown © 2023