In keeping with advancing years, the party for Selection Box’s third birthday turned out to be a rather more low-key affair than the wild cake, balloon and full studio of previous years.  Although your host was able to treat himself to a tasty off-cut of a choccy caterpillar cake this was actually provided by someone else for celebratory purposes the nature of which I am not aware.  It was just a coincidence that it happened to be sat there on the same day as my show’s anniversary, but as it was sat there waiting to be sliced asunder by all comers I helped myself to one of the last pieces before heading into the studio.

Personnel-wise it was a quieter do also, though the feared for ménage à un was thankfully avoided due to the presence of Phil Cope who, contrary to my suggestions in previous posts, doesn’t just stalk the studios of BCB in search of offcuts of sugar-laden comestibles.  He reckons on he doesn’t even like cake, the blithering fool.  There were also warm greetings from he’s-not-actually-Phil’s-boyfriend-y’know Ecelctic Mainline presenter Albert Freeman and Laura Rawlings from The BCB Sessions, who in her recorded message described Selection Box as a “fantastic” show, thus demonstrating that she’s either a liar or that she’s never heard it, because it’s not a word I would use.  If the latter of these is the case she’d do well to maintain this listening pattern for one more week as she briefly became the focus of an ungentlemanly personality battering.  Sorry, Laura.  We wuz only joking, and if its any consolation I’m typing this whilst staring at the floor and looking ashamed.

Anyway, courtesy of this lovely Soundcloud player you can listen to the show again for a limited period (the period is determined by how long it is before I need to delete it to make room for something else).  Sadly due to copyright and such blah the show cannot be made available as a downloadable file.

Selection Box Show 142 by PatrickSelection_Box

Here’s that there playlist:

The Birthday Party's Junkyard - surely in the top 5 worst album covers of all time.

Selection Box Show 142

Transmitted 26/7/2010

1.  The Birthday Party – Release The Bats
from: Junkyard

2.  Maxine Brown – Baby Cakes
from: Oh No Not My Baby: The Best Of Maxine Brown

3.  The Dirty Three with Cat Power – Great Waves
from: Cinder

4.  The Beta Band – She’s The One
from: The Three E.P.s

5.  Harry James & Boogie Woogie Trio w/ Pete Johnson – Boo Woo
from: Bands That Can Boogie Woogie (various artists)

6.  Cud – Wobbly Jelly
from: When In Rome Kill Me

7.  Tilly & The Wall – Poor Man’s Ice Cream
from: O

8.  Wendy Arrowsmith – The Ribbon
from: Seeds Of Fools

9.  Showbiz & A.G – Represent
from: Runaway Slave

10.  Marlena Shaw – California Soul
from: Anthology

11.  Interpol – No I In Threesome
from: Our Love To Admire

12.  The Blenders – Ain’t Nothin But A Party
from:  Dr Rubberfunk – Funkydown – Mix Of The Month – Christmas Special 2005 (various artists)

Patrick Thornton presents Selection Box every Monday at Midnight.