If I’d have had the relevant track by The Hollies to hand I would have played it, but then that was the point – I didn’t have the tracks I was supposed to. The chorus of “He’s King Midas in reverse” would’ve been appropriate, seen as everything I touched seemed to turn to anything but priceless radio.  I can’t pretend that all ums and aahs in usual shows are finely scripted and rehearsed, and nor can I pretend that I don’t regularly change my mind on what I am going to play whilst the show is actually in progress – sometimes the ways things flow in my head doesn’t actually work in practice and I change the admittedly-vague plotting of the programme accordingly.  The surprise from your point of view will be to learn that there is a sort of demi-plan, though, and when this half-baked idea turns out to be scuppered by a metaphorical faulty oven, it throws everything into something of a whirl.  Or in this case, I forgot to turn the oven on and then found that the microwave had fused.  Or something.

This is NOT what a lady looks like after a golden shower.

In other words, a large number of the records I had meant to bring along for even possible consideration for this week’s Selection Box did not feature on the programme on account of the fact that I managed to leave them in a cupboard in my house.  Seen as I am not Desmond Carrington and therefore do not get to present the programme from my home in Perthshire (I always imagine him in a Christmas jumper with a roaring fire whistling up the chimney next to him at he whispers into the microphone – even now in July), having the tools needed to perform the job sat over 10 miles away from you is not ideal.  Then I discovered that the CD of an additional set of tracks I had burned with a view to shove on air had done so with a fault on it, so I couldn’t play any of the delicious aural morcels off that either.

Apparently only a bad workman blames his tools, and although this is an expression I’ve always taken issue with – because if that were true there wouldn’t be such a thing as “good” tools – I sought to cobble together a programme with suffciently diverse audio lovliness to satisfy the two or three people who listen in every week looking for a veritable jambalia of racket from the few CDs I had remembered to put into my bag.  And what do you know, I think I just about managed to pull it off.  Shame about the bumbling div talking in between the records, mind, but then he seems to show up every week.  The tosser.

Meanwhile, the 3rd birthday show is a mere two weeks away now, so please keep your song suggestions on the themes of “3” and “Birthday” dribbling in to selectionbox@bcbradio.co.uk or Tweet them via your Twatpods to @Selection_Box. 

Daisy Chainsaw's KatieJane Garside: hard to know where the hair ends and the foliage begins

Selection Box Show 140

Transmitted 12/7/2010
1.  Daisy Chainsaw – Love Your Money
from: Eleventeen

2.  Sharon Jones & The Dap Kings – Money
from: I Learned The Hard Way

3.  Eddie Noack – Take It Away Lucky
from: Theme Time Radio Hour With Your Host Bob Dylan (various artists)

4.  Beach House – Love Of Mine
from: Teen Dream

5.  Wild Beasts – Hooting & Howling
from: Two Dancers

6.  Christine Kittrell – Snake In The Grass
from: Mambo 1: Rhompin’ Rhumbas (various artists)

7.  Elvis Perkins In Dearland – Send My Fond Regards To Lonleyville
from: Elvis Perkins In Dearland

8.  Toots & The Maytals – Sweet & Dandy
from: The Very Best of Toots & The Maytals

9.  Midlake – Bring Down
from: The Courage of Others

10.  Texas Jim Lewis & His Lone Star Cowboys – Seven Beers With The Wrong Man
from: Rose Of The Border

11.  The Chemical Brothers – The Private Psychedelic Reel
from: Dig Your Own Hole

12.  Billy Clark – I Know Why
from: Buffalo Bop – Rock & Roll Riot (various artists)

 

Patrick Thornton presents Selection Box every Monday at Midnight.