Well, that's disturbing. I Googled "jelly" and this photo of Phil Cope popped up.

For someone to forget to bring a load of records needed for a radio show is pretty daft.  To do it not only twice, but two weeks running -with the frustration of the previous occasion fresh in the mind – is the actions of a frankly hopeless prize bellend.  I am that soldier.  Thankfully it was not quite as many as last week, but was still sufficient to throw me off kilter a bit.

I can only assume that my focus has been confined far too much to next week’s 3rd birthday extravaganza, which may rather pathetically turn out to be a ménage à un at this rate seen as prospective guests have decided that they’re terribly busy watching television that evening.  There was a half-hearted “maybe” from Phil Cope, who I attempted to lure with the promise of jelly and ice cream, though he has previous when it comes to forgetting to turn up, and last time he did come on as a guest he blotted his copybook by bringing along a right load of cack to play in the form of Ebony & Ivory.  A solo celebration is beginning to look all the more appealing by the second.  And it means more jelly for me, nom nom nom…

A belated R.I.P. to Frank Sidebottom. Will we ever know of his like again?

Selection Box Show 141

Transmitted 19/7/2010
1.  The Arcade Fire – Month Of May
from: The Suburbs

2.  Darrow Fletcher – The Pain Gets A Little Deeper
from: Kent’s Cellar of Soul Vol 2 (various artists)

3.  The Stanley Brothers – If I Lose
from: Theme Time Radio Hour With Your Host Bob Dylan (various artists)

4.  Frank Sidebottom – Timperley Sunset
from: E f g & h – The Best of Frank Sidebottom Volume 2

5.  Pedro Luis Ferrer – Operacion Sitio
from: Nueva Vision: Latin Jazz & Soul From The Cuban Label Egrem / Areito 1971 – 89 (various artists)

6.  Gary Numan – Conversation
from: The Pleasure Principle

7.  Cass Hagen & his Park Central – Varsity Drag
from: Rare Hot Dance: The Music Sensation of the 1920s and 1930s (various artists)

8.  Vicki Anderson – I’m Too Tough For Mister Big Stuff
from: Mother Popcorn

9.  The Carolina Playboys – Don’t Cry Over Me When I’m Gone
from: Sonora 7018

10.  Canned Heat – Poor Moon
from: Hallelujah (2001 re-release)

11.  The Dead Weather – Blue Blood Blues
from: Sea of Cowards

12.  Goree Carter & His Hepcats – Rock Awhile
from: The Birth of Rock & Roll (various artists)

13.  Eli “Paperboy” Reed & The Trueloves – Just Like Me
from: Come And Get It 7″ single

14.  Tommy Johnson – Cool Drink of Water Blues
from: Tommy Johnson 1928 – 1929

Patrick Thornton presents Selection Box every Monday at Midnight.