Cosmic Bos Podcast ft. David Battenberg Cake

Welcome fellow Space Babies, to the Monthly Music Challenge podcast with your hosts Cosmic Bos.

This episode is MMC 2.3 - Intergalactic.

The third theme for 2024, was Intergalactic, and fellow humans, you are in for an out of this world experience right here on this very podcast, that's right, we are space bound, with the help of 19 other majestic musical wonders from around the globe, we will explore the sonic intergalactic highways and hear things we can only have dreamed of imagining, let's not waste any more time and climb aboard the MMC Challenger, the rocket/submarine/train that Cosmic Bos pilot (kind of) around the creative cosmic multiverse and get all space musicified.

Your hosts are Cosmic Bos, Nick and Andy Jackson, brothers from the UK that make creative and quirky music, as well the home of David Battenberg cake, Big Mic, Sexy German man, Taylor Swiss Roll, Bread Sheeran, David Bowieberg, Dave Grohlberg (from the Food Fighters), Breddie Mercury, Elvis Pretzel, Fleetwood Macaroon, Cake Bush, Elton Scone, Paul McCakeney and many more.

Cosmic Bos open the podcast in the traditional way, with their own submission to the theme, for Intergalactic, Cosmic Bos made Space Babies 2 (Intergalactic Super Fantastic Imagination Tactic) which you can purchase from Bandcamp here

Space Babies 2 on Bandcamp

There is also a video to go along with it, as is also tradition. Found here on this handy YouTube link right here Space Babies 2 by Cosmic Bos on YouTube

Okay, with the self promotion out of the way, let's move on to the theme for MMC 2.4 which is : Animals. You have until the 3rd of May to create your piece of music around the theme of Animals, what you do with it is up to you, enjoy!

Let's get Intergalactic with the tracks for this episode:

(Please Note: the songs are presented in the order of the game Big Mic's Big Numbers, NOT in the order that they are played in the show)

• 1. Cosmic Bos - Space Babies 2 (Intergalactic Super Fantastic Imagination Tactic)
• 2. Gee-Wiz and the Space Pirates - Get Down Low
• 3. Colin Pimlott - Intergalactic Void
• 4. The Pixie Post - The Epiphany
• 5. Broken Nomads - Nevermore
• 6. Panmet - Meteor Shower
• 7. A Sea Warren - Intergalactic
• 8. Uncle Funkbeard - Rendevous with Destiny (remix)
• 9. Mario Marino - H Disco 1
• 10. Mario Marino, John Serrano, Tracy Cloud and Only the Host - All We Are Disappears
• 11. Trench Gun - Otherworldly
• 12. Tonal Drift - Scale
• 13. Andrew Hartshorn - Intergalactic Overture
• 14. Mobidextrous - The Third Helping
• 15. Chris Boddington - Contact
• 16. Notehead - Starlust
• 17. Sonic Squirrel - This is NOT Asteroid M
• 18. John Serrano, Only the Host and Tracy Cloud - Are You Home
• 19. TexMex Shaman and Tea R C - Expansive Expedition
• 20. Hellwaddler - Penguins Floating Through Space

Thank you so much for coming on this musical adventure with us, we really do appreciate it, please subscribe to all our socials and share the podcast far and wide, it's free indie music for all to enjoy, and a bit of nonsense banter for some to enjoy. Please support all the amazing musicians that take part, most of them have bandcamp pages where you can support them directly by purchasing their work.

The poll to vote in the peoples choice award will be on the youtube video and discord, please go vote for your fave.

So finally, Coming Next Month (on the 5th May) will be Monthly Music Challenge MMC 2.4 - Animals

The theme is : Animals

Submission close date for MM 2.4 is the 3rd May 2024.

Email mp3 and blurb to [email protected]

Peace and infinite space dreams

Cosmic Bos

Hello there! How are you?

Welcome to the Monthly Music Challenge podcast with your hosts, Cosmic Bos.

Here, I, David Battenberg cake, would like to take this opportunity to welcome you to this extra special episode of the Monthly Music Challenge podcast, all about me, David Battenberg cake, or, more specifically, Happiness, which I, David Battenberg cake, embody.

For the second theme of the second year of the MMC, Cosmic Bos chose Happiness, and what a majestic choice that was, it has led to 29 of the finest songs, musical vegan nuggets of delight, that a human or a cake could ever hope to encounter, all wrapped up neatly in this almost 5 hour podcast.

So without further ado, I, David Battenberg cake, introduce Andy and Nick Jackson, of Cosmic Bos, the hosts of this podcast.

Thank you for that introuduction David, very kind. So, as David said, we have a wealth of awesome music for you in this episode, 28 submissions from the most talented indie musicians working in the world today. As we had so many submissions we went for another round of Big Mic's Big Numbers to help us (or hinder) picking an order for all this saucy awesomeness.

You can buy our single on bandcamp here, please consider it, we are donating a portion of profits to Mental Health Charities, it is very dear to David's heart and he wants to support where he can.

https://cosmicbos.bandcamp.com/album/happiness-is-a-battenberg-named-david

We also made a video to go with the song, which you can find on YouTube here

Happiness is a Battenberg Named David Official Video

Here is the full tracklist of amazing songs in the episode, they are numbered how they were for Big Mic's Big Numbers and not in the order they are played. Except for track 1, that was us.

• 1. Cosmic Bos - Happiness is a Battenberg Named David
• 2. Truck Dog and the Go People - Manaomua (LATE SUB for First Impressions)
• 3. Andrew Hartshorn - Happiness, You Can Make it Happen
• 4. Chemical Shift - Utopia
• 5. A Sea Warren - Happiness
• 6. Mobidextrous - Bliss
• 7. Uncle Funkbeard - Lucky Break
• 8. Colin Pimlott - Happiness is Mine
• 9. Above the Snow Line - Happiness
• 10. Taylor Lidstone - My Sweet Paradise
• 11. Tracy Cloud - Let it Shine
• 12. Mario Marino, John Serrano and Only the Host - Born in the Stars
• 13. Nakedverse and Pixie Post - Pixieverse Dimension
• 14. Starve the Little Devil - I'm Happy
• 15. John Serrano and Black Creek Rock - I Talk to the Wind
• 16. TexMex Shaman - Happy Ending
• 17. Age of Infernal - Happy
• 18. Sonic Squirrel - Dancing on Fragile Sunshine
• 19. Smokin' Cola - Happy Hatchet
• 20. Mr. Woody - Happiness
• 21. Milly Stale - Buy Happiness
• 22. TruckDog and the Go People - Chasing Shadows Away
• 23. Marklyn Retzer - Tutu
• 24. Notehead - So Happy
• 25. Natalie Williams Calhoun - Happiness
• 26. Hellwaddler - A Show of Happiness
• 27. Gee-Whiz - Happiness
• 28. Gee-Whiz ft. Conspiracy Corner - Show me the Meaning of Happiness
• 29. Penelope's Thrill - Clockwork Clouds

There you have it, what a list of talent! Cosmic Bos are truly humbled by all of the awesome on display in this episode. Please go and vote in the peoples choice poll on discord, X and there will be a link on youtube etc. Vote for your favourites please. And leave us comments on YouTube, on the podcast episode there. Artists featured, can you please post links to where people can buy your songs in the comments on YouTube, so we can all go support you all.

The People Choice Award for MMC 2.1 First Impressions went to (drumroll.......) Above the Snow Line, Tracy Cloud and John Serrano for their song First Impressions, thank you for all that voted, and you clearly have good taste picking this tasty track.

Without further ado, the theme for MMC 2.3 will be Intergalactic

You have until the 5th April to get your Intergalactic songs to Cosmic Bos. Please send an mp3 and a write up about your song to [email protected] and if you are a first time submitter please include a Bio, tell us about yourself.

We will still accept songs around both the 'First Impressions' and 'Happiness' themes, should you so wish.

Thank you so much for being here, we love you, from the bottomberg's of our battenbergs. Please like, share and subscribe to the Monthly Music Challenge, and support indie music, most of the musicians featured in this podcast have music available to buy on bandcamp etc.

Once again, please consider picking up our single

https://cosmicbos.bandcamp.com/album/happiness-is-a-battenberg-named-david and leaving a comment on our video, that would be majestic.

Next episode (2.3 - Intergalactic) coming on the 7th April.

Peace and infinite love

Cosmic Bos

Welcome friends and lovers to the Monthly Music Challenge podcast with your hosts, Cosmic Bos.

This is the first proper episode of the second season of the Monthly Music Challenge, and it has grown somewhat since last year. 30 songs for you! that's right, 30 songs made around the theme of 'First Impressions', and SPOILER ALERT! They are crispy amazeballs, absolutely all of them.

Andy and Nick, Jackson, the brothers Cosmic, Bos, one S, are here to guide you through the delightful frist impressions from the most exciting up and coming musicians and artists that are creating in the world today, forget your Taylor Swifts, it's all about Taylor Lidstone here, and move aside Andrew Lloyd Weber, we got Andrew Hartshorn on the MMC Challenge (our Rocket, Submarine, Train hybrid that traverses the musical multiverse).

So come on a magical musical journey, with special guests David Battenberg Cake and Big Mic, as Cosmic Bos delve into the musical world of First Impressions.

Full tracklist, not in order, in fact it's the order of Big Mic's Big Numbers! The new game that Andy and Nick came up with to help them pick an order.

• 1. Cosmic Bos - You Only Get One Chance to Make a First Impression
• 2. TexMex Shaman - Firstly, I'm Impressed
• 3. John Serrano and Ores Minon - Rules to Break
• 4. Sonic Squirrel - Greetings from Planet Squirrel
• 5. Voltage Poetry Project - The First Funicular of the Day
• 6. NakelTBG - Peak Cinema
• 7. Smokin' Cola - Good First Impression
• 8. Gee-Whiz - First Impressions
• 9. Only the Host and John Serrano - It's Dangerous to go it Alone
• 10. Mr. Woody - Warning Sign
• 11. - 14. Mobidextrous - First Impressions EP
• 15. Aye Nevo - The Gift
• 16. Uncle Funkbeard - Thirst Impressions
• 17. Chemical Shift - Mariposas
• 18. Taylor Lidstone - I Bet You Skip Forward
• 19. Mario Marino - Loading Screen
• 20. Mike Allen - I Digress
• 21. Pixie Post - The Beginning
• 22. Andrew Hartshorn - First Impressions
• 23. Starve the Little Devil - Come Around
• 24. Trench Gun - When I First Saw You
• 25. A Sea Warren - First Impressions
• 26. Colin Pimlott - 8 out of 10 won't do
• 27. Notehead - Phosphenes
• 28. Above the Snow Line, Tracy Cloud and John Serrano - First Impression
• 29. Hellwaddler - Post Apocalyptic Impressions
• 30. Natalie Williams Calhoun - First Impressions

Please go and vote for your favourite songs in the comments here on the podcast, or on youtube (prefferably), we will tally up the results and issue a 'Peoples Choice Award' next month to the song with the most love. Feel free to mention multiple.

Thank you for being here, we truly appreciate you, please give the podcast a like and subscribe, and comments are just wonderful.

The next theme for the MMC is 2.2 - Happiness, get your happy (or miserable) caps on and get musicianing oh dearest musicians of the indie music world. Closing date or submissions is the 1st March 2024.

Email an mp3 (and a bio if you are new) to [email protected]

You can still submit songs for 'First Impressions' and we might play them in our 'Late Subs' section.

Next Episode coming 3rd March - MMC 2.2 - Happiness

Peace and infinite love

Cosmic Bos

Hello Music fans,

Welcome to a special presentation podcast by the hosts of the Monthly Music Challenge, Cosmic Bos (one S). Although this is the podcast feed for the MMC, it is also the place that Cosmic Bos put their special presentations and some other guff, like, if they want to chat about something for some reason.

Cosmic Bos are Nick and Andy Jackson, brothers from the South of the UK, making music and music videos and sharing them with the world.

Virtual Normality 3 is our third EP in the Virtual Normality series (you can tell by the 3 after the words Virtual and Normality), with the first one having come out way back in 2021 before the Monthly Music Challenge even existed, the second one hit internet shelves in 2022 mere months before the MMC was launched, and then this third one slipped onto the intershelves on the final day of 2023 (so we can still claim it came out in '23). https://cosmicbos.bandcamp.com/album/virtual-normality-3

A little Cosmic Bos history on this subject: Virtual Normality started life as a showcase for Nick and Andy of their songwriting skills, at the time, Cosmic Bos were making an improvised music podcast, with Nick and Andy working with Joe Philogene and producing 4 epic Full album improv sessions in 2021. 'Space Babies' was born from the improv sessions and was given a coat of production paint to open the EP, with 'Take it Easier', 'It's Always You' and 'Ride Another Wave' being used from the songbooks. 'Stay Inside' was a new song made with TexMex Shaman and loving placed on the EP.

Flash forward a year and Cosmic Bos release Virtual Normality 2, having won a 'Judge's Choice' Award for their album '2 A.M it's Mission Time' it was decided that Nick and Andy would give the songwriting their full focus. VN2 contained 4 songs that had been born from the Music Weeklies challenge on X (formerly Twitter) as well as a Cosmic Bos remix of a song by Andrew Hartshorn and Natalie Williams Calhoun. It also served as the blueprint for the Monthly Music Challenge.

At the end of the first year of the Monthly Music Challenge, Cosmic Bos turned their attention to Virtual Normality 3, knowing that they wanted it to showcase what the future may hold, just as the previous two VN EP's had. And that is what this podcast is about.

Come on a journey with Nick Jackson and Andy Jackson of Cosmic Bos as they discuss their new 5 track EP Virtual Normality 3, which you can buy on bandcamp right now here https://cosmicbos.bandcamp.com/album/virtual-normality-3

Also, if you fancy a free copy of the EP, then all you need to do is purchase our CD from Monochrome Motif Records here https://cosmicbos.bandcamp.com/album/mmc-1-2023-album - Containing our 10 songs for the first year of the Monthly Music Challenge, and a bonus free digital download of Virtual Normality 3.

Thank you for listening, regular Monthly Music Challenge will be back on the 4th of Feb 2024, you have until the 2nd Feb to write your 'First Impressions' songs, and then email mp3 and bio to us at [email protected]

Full tracklist for Virtual Normality 3

1. Oh Wow! (Hug the Lady) ft. A Sea Warren
2. Future Anniversaries
3. Unconditional
4. Fragility
5. How So Lucky ft. Theo

Please like, share and subscribe to our work

And comment pwease, we weally weally love comments

Peace and infinite love

Cosmic Bos

Hello dear listener,

Welcome to the Monthly Music Challenge podcast with your hosts Cosmic Bos, they are Nick and Andy Jackson, brothers from the UK that make lots of music, and host this music challenge, monthly, in podcast form.

This is the introduction episode to the second year of the Monthly Music Challenge.

What is the Monthly Music Challenge?

Good question, it is a podcast, audioshow, that comes out monthly, and contains music submitted around a theme each month. We did it all last year, and had 10 themes that made up MMC 1.

Cosmic Bos (your show hosts) put their efforts out as a CD under Monochrome Motif records, which you can purchase from bandcamp here

https://cosmicbos.bandcamp.com/album/mmc-1-2023-album

How do I get involved?

If you are a musician, and you would like to submit music to the Monthly Music Challenge podcast, please send mp3's with a bio (for first timers) and a little write up about your track to [email protected]

We listen to all submissions and craft a unique show out of them, the peeps of the MMC are the cream of the indie music scene, and you can be a part of it too.

What is the theme for Jan 2024?

Well, the theme for Jan 2024 is - First Impressions

You have till the 2nd of Feb to get your 'First Impressions' songs in.

Is there a way to submit songs from previous themes of the MMC?

Funny you should ask, we had a segment last year we called 'Late Subs' to accomodate peeps that missed the deadline, and we will probably bring that back for this season of podcasting.

So if you would like to make a song or piece of music about any of the themes from MMC1 then please do, and submit them in mp3 form to [email protected]

MMC1 Themes for late subs are:

New Beginnings, Escape, Ignorance, Winning, Razzmajazz, Artificial Intelligence, Mother Earth, Dreams, Super Spectacular & Finale

So for this intro episode we didn't really get any submissions, we had suggested that if peeps were up for it they could make a track to go with the theme 'Intro'. Only one person took up the challenge, the one and only Andrew Hartshorn. Who also put out an MMC 1 album from his efforts on the MMC in 2023. Go buy a copy on bandcamp, it's awesome sauce and well worth your eartime.

Also, we hastily put our 'Intro' song together, and are getting it to pull double duties for now, as the podcast intro AND our MMC 2 intro. Fun times.

Please like, share, comment and subscribe to Cosmic Bos

Now get to work, you've got music to make

Peace and infinite cake

Cosmic Bos (one 'S')

So peeps, Cosmic Bos (your hosts of the MMC) presented the Gold Awards for the awesome music sent in the the Monthly Music Challenge in 2023. That was the Best of 2023, 11 Gold Award winning artists of the indie music scene, taking on challenges with a time limit and making the crispiest Golden music known to earballs in the solar rotational calander year known as 2023.

There were of course, a great many Monthly Music Challenge submissions from which the gold award winners were plucked, and to honour the truly exceptional work of the awesome artists of the MMC, Cosmic Bos gave Silver Awards to all the shortlisted songs for the awards.

So, we now present to you the Rest of MMC 2023, containing 10 of the Silver Award winning artists award winning songs, as well as 10 more Cosmic Bos songs from the rest of the music we made for the Monthly Music Challenge.

Side note - Cosmic Bos took part in the Music Weeklies challenge for almost the entire year, producing 43 songs for the MMC which are all available on the EP's that went with each Monthly Challenge. Not to brag or nothing, but it was an experiment that helped shape both Andy and Nick into the Bos'es they need to be to helm the MMC Challenger (it's a rocket, submarine, train thing that crosses the musical multiverse, see previous episodes for more details).

Monochrome Motif Records (the label run by Andrew Hartshorn) very kindly released Cosmic Bos MMC 1 (2023) on CD no less! Check out the bandcamp link here for details on purchase, download and streaming freeloads too. https://cosmicbos.bandcamp.com/album/mmc-1-2023-album

Here is the full shortlist of awesome Silver Award winners, please go and subscribe to them all on all the socials.

New Beginnings Silver Award winners

• In the Beginning - Tonal Drift
• A New Beginning - Chemical Shift
• Phoenix Rising - Andrew Hartshorn
• Starting Over - Third Echo Sounds

Escape Silver Award winners

• Breakout - Trench Gun
• How to Stop Time - Stefan Bohacek
• Dance (escape the week) - Mijimo
• Escape - Peter Hawkey

Ignorance Silver Award winners

• Ignorance - Peter Hawkey
• I is for Ignorance - Hellwaddler
• The Size of the Stars - Notehead
• Ignorance - Mobidextrous
• Without Your Love - A Sea Warren

Winning Silver Award winners

• Winning (Deep Fried Mix) - Mobidextrous
• Slow and Steady wins the race - Andrew Hartshorn
• You Can't Be a Winner (if you're a Sinner) - A Sea Warren
• Smell Defeat - Notehead

Razzmajazz Silver Award winners

• Razzmajazz - Scowsh Molosh
• This is Fine - Notehead
• Razmajazz - Tonal Drift
• The Jazzman's Trumpet - Andrew Hartshorn

Artificial Intelligence Silver Award winners

• Era Oeuvre - Voltage Poetry Project
• Clouds Dissolve - Texmex Shaman and TRC
• Techno sapiens - Tonal Drift
• Ghost in the Machine - J Peck

Mother Earth Silver Award winners

• Price to be Paid - Aye Nevo
• Gaias Moonshine Merriment - Hellwaddler
• The Assassination of Mother Earth - Man of Arun
• Mother Nature - Taylor Lidstone

Dreams Silver Award winners

• Dreamscape Promises - Taylor Lidstone
• Crisp - John Serrano
• Unsettled Sleep - Tonal Drift
• Princess in the Snow - Hellwaddler
• Lonely in Lucidity - Notehead
• Impossible Perks - Mobidextrous

Super Spectacular Silver Award winners

• Mecha Funk - Mario Marino
• Can't Get You Out of my Head - John Serrano and Raul Lupianez
• Atlantis (Tringle) - Andrew Hartshorn
• Super-Spectacular - Above the Snow Line
• Epiphany - Hellwaddler

Finale Silver Award winners

• Lost - Only the Host
• Feed Me the Finale - Notehead
• Once Stowaway - Voltage Poetry Project
• Finale - Taylor Lidstone
• Noot and Carnage - Hellwaddler
• I Want to Run Away - A Sea Warren

Now that is one helluva set of songs right there, we recomment you go and listen to all of them, and please share the love with all the artists, they are amazeballs and deserve more attention.

The 10 Cosmic Bos songs played, or what we refer to as our Rest of 2023 are as follows:

1. One Pixel at a Time
2. Heart Holder
3. Ivory and Ebony
4. Kick in the Cultures
5. Basic Sandcastle Destruction
6. Get a Little Bit Smarter Everyday
7. Salt on the Speakers
8. Persevere
9. Keeping it Old School
10. Pinata of Troy

So there you have it, 2023 in a couple of nutshells, this being the Silver one, go rub the Gold one if you haven't already, or just go rub it again if you are so inclined.

Thank you so much for all your support over the year, the Monthly Music Challenge has been an absolute joy to watch grow and evolve, and it's all the amazing artists taking part that have helped grow this community of real music happening now for the earballs of today.

We are open for submissions of any previous hashtag for MMC1, as well as any Intro pieces you wish to send us ready for MMC2. In Jan we will do an introduction to MM2 episode, where we will announce the theme for Monthly Music Challenge 2.1.

Please comment on this podcast too, help us spread the word of the Monthly Music Challenge

Peace and infinite love

Cosmic Bos

Here it is peeps, the Monthly Music Challenge 2023 Awards - GOLD EDITION with your hosts Cosmic Bos

2023 has been one helluva ride for the Monthly Music Challenge podcast, when we started this back in Jan 2023 (ahh memories) with the help of Music Weeklies and the support of our awesome partners in musical business (Andrew Hartshorn & Al Warren), we had no idea how it would go, but here we are at the tail end of 23 and we are doing an Awards show, 2 of them no less (SPOILER ALERT! there will be a Silver Awards show too).

Welcome to the first annual Monthly Music Challenge Awards, 2023, with your hosts Cosmic Bos

We have handed out awards to go with each of the themes of MMC1, and using the album that we made ourselves for the challenge (which you can buy on CD and Download from bandcamp right now! follow the link - https://cosmicbos.bandcamp.com/album/mmc-1-2023-album

So as not to reveal the winners in this here bit of text, all the nominees will be written out in no particular order, and you will have to listen to find out the Gold Award winner.

New Beginnings Award

• New Beginnings - A Sea Warren
• In the Beginning - Tonal Drift
• A New Beginning - Chemical Shift/Broken Nomads
• Phoenix Rising - Andrew Hartshorn
• Starting Over - Third Echo Sounds

Escape Award

• Breakout - Trench Gun
• How to Stop Time - Stefan Bohacek
• Escapist - Notehead
• Escape - Peter Hawkey
• Dance (escape the week) - Mijimo

Ignorance Award

• Without Your Love - A Sea Warren
• Ignorance - Peter Hawkey
• I is for Ignorance - Hellwaddler
• Ignorance - Mobidextrous
• Eden - Andrew Hartshorn
• The Size of the Stars - Notehead

Winning Award

• Smell Defeat - Notehead
• Winning isn't Everything - Man of Arun
• Slow and Steady Wins the Race - Andrew Hartshorn
• You Can't be a Winner (if you're a Sinner) - A Sea Warren
• Winning (deep fried mix) - Mobidextrous

Razzmajazz Award

• Razzmajazz - Tonal Drift
• This is Fine - Notehead
• The Jazzman's Trumpet - Andrew Hartshorn
• Razzmajazz - Scowsh Molosh
• Just Make it Up - Hellwaddler

Artificial Intelligence Award

• Ghost in the Machine - J Peck
• Dichotomy - Natalie Williams Calhoun
• Clouds Dissolve - Texmex Shaman and TRC
• Era Oeuvre - Voltage Poetry Project
• Techno Sapiens - Tonal Drift

Mother Earth Award

• Price to be Paid - Aye Nevo
• Gaias Moonshine Merriment - Hellwaddler
• The Assassination of Mother Earth - Man of Arun
• Mother Nature - Taylor Lidstone
• They Lied to Me - J Peck

Dreams Award

• Princess in the Snow - Hellwaddler
• Lonely in Lucidity - Notehead
• Impossible Perks - Mobidextrous
• Dreamscape Promises - Taylor Lidstone
• Polarsken - Chemical Shift
• Crisp - John Serrano
• Unsettled Sleep - Tonal Drift

Super Spectacular Award

• Super - Texmex Shaman
• Can't Get You Out of My Head - John Serrano and Raul Lupianez
• Atlantis (Tringle) - Andrew Hartshorn
• Mecha Funk - Mario Marino
• Super-Spectacular - Above the Snow Line
• Epiphany - Hellwaddler

Finale Award

• Feed Me the Finale - Notehead
• Lost - Only the Host
• Once Stowaway - Voltage Poetry Project
• Finale - Taylor Lidstone
• Noot and Carnage - Hellwaddler
• I Want to Run Away - A Sea Warren
• Finale - Above the Snow Line ft. John Serrano

There you have it, all these songs have picked up an award, but only one from each list gets the GOLD Award. Massive THANK YOU to everyone that submitted a song to the MMC in 2023, we had 167 songs made for the challenge by you! that's so awesome sauce.

In between each of the award winning songs, you get to hear Cosmic Bos submission to the MMC for that month, which you can buy on CD from Bandcamp here https://cosmicbos.bandcamp.com/album/mmc-1-2023-album

And you can get Andrew Hartshorn's MMC album on bandcamp too

https://andrewhartshorn.bandcamp.com/album/mythos-unveiled-album

And you can buy the pair of them together for a lovely little discount, please consider supporting us by buying our music, we do this all for love, but it would be nice to see some money pwease too.

Anyway, the Cosmic Bos songs that you will hear scattered across the award show are as follows

• Nude Beginnings
• Make Good Our Escape
• Idiots
• We Are All in This Together
• Razzmajazz
• There's No A.I in Team
• Earth's Children
• Could This All be a Dream?
• Super Spectacular
• Grand Theft Autotune (live)

All the tracks on our album that Monochrome Motif have put out on CD! and you can grab a copy right here https://cosmicbos.bandcamp.com/album/mmc-1-2023-album

Also also, right at the end of the podcast we gave a cheeky extra GOLD Award to Hartshorn, Jackson, Jackson and Warren for the song 'Barbenheimer', as it was originally an MMC sub by Hartshorn that got bigged up into a HJJW track, so that Nick and Andy (the Jackson's) could get a Gold award too.

Thank you for all the support

Please like, share and subscribe

And leave us comments, we love comments

See you soon for the SILVER AWARD show

Peace and infinite love

Cosmic Bos

Oh yeah, go buy the album https://cosmicbos.bandcamp.com/album/mmc-1-2023-album

Welcome to the Monthly Music Challenge with Cosmic Bos podcast

Monthly Music Challenge MMC 1.10 - Finale

We have reached the final theme of the Monthly Music Challenge's first year of existing, there will be no more monthly musical shenanigans until 2024, well, apart from the MMC Awards, and a few albums being available to buy on CD (SPOILER ALERT!) Cosmic Bos and Andrew Hartshorn both having CD's out under Monochrome Motif Records in December on bandcamp

Alas, we get ahead of ourselves, for right now, Nick and Andy Jackson and Jackson (Cosmic Bos) delve deep into the wonderful, eclectic, fascinating world of indie music, presenting for your earholes, interpretations of Finale, the Final E, the Fin Ale, the last song for the MMC1 albums we've all been making all year, the final outing for 2023, music made to the theme of Finale.

With some truly amazeball choonage that is sure to crispy your disco chicken, awesome your sauce, go on a musical adventure like no other, for the Finale outing in 2023, Cosmic Bos proudly presents the music of Mobidextrous, Above the Snow Line ft. John Serrano, Trench Gun, Notehead, TexMex Shaman and Tea R Sea, Andrew 'Big Dog' Hartshorn, Voltage Poetry Project, Taylor Lidstone, Hell'YEAH'waddler, Mario Marino, A Sea Warren (we can call him Al), Only the Host, Uncle Funkbeard, The Eclectic Collective, Chemical Shift/Broken Nomads and of course your idiotic hosts, Cosmic Bos.

Thank you so much for coming on this musical journey with us, it has been amazeballs from start to finish, and please support all these exceptional artists by buying their music, or at least following them on Spotify and other musical socials, bandcamp is still currently worth a visit.

We have made our Tringle for this episode 'pay what you want', with nothing being an option, so please go help yourself to a copy of our three tracks for this episode.

https://cosmicbos.bandcamp.com/album/mmc-110-finale

Comments make the indie musical world go round, so please leave comments wherever you get your MMC fix, thanks a billyuion.

You can also pick up our Monochrome Motif album - Cosmic Bos MMC 1 (2023)

https://cosmicbos.bandcamp.com/album/mmc-1-2023-album

Along with the Big Dog's MMC album 'Mythos Unveiled' too, Andrew Hartshorn Mythos Unveiled

https://andrewhartshorn.bandcamp.com/album/mythos-unveiled-album

Together you can get both on CD for £12 on bandcamp, whatta bargain!

Right, now onto the songs, here is the full tracklist for the episode:

• 1. Grand Theft Autotune (live) - Cosmic Bos
• 2. FINMV - Mobidextrous
• 3. Finale - Above the Snow Line ft. John Serrano
• 4. Monotony - Trench Gun
• 5. Feed me the Finale - Notehead
• 6. True Story - Texmex Shaman and Tea R Sea
• 7. Life & His Lover - Andrew Hartshorn
• 8. Once Stowaway - Voltage Poetry Project
• 9. Finale 2023 - Taylor Lidstone
• 10. Noot & Carnage - Hellwaddler
• 11. Transcendence 1 (the Twingle in the Tringle) - Cosmic Bos
• 12. HKJKT - Mobidextrous
• 13. Insomnia - Trench Gun
• 14. Subsiding Radiance - Mario Marino
• 15. I Want to Run Away - A Sea Warren
• 16. Lost - Only the Host
• 17. Changing My Mind - Uncle Funkbeard
• 18. Fallin - The Eclectic Collective (Texmex Shaman)
• 19. Bootymancer - Notehead
• 20. A New Beginning - Chemical Shift/Broken Nomads
• 21. CNDYFLP - Mobidextrous
• 22. Pinata of Troy - Cosmic Bos

Now that is one massive bowl of crispy chicken soup for the soul, this is the bit of the podcast write up where we would usually announce the next theme, but technically there isn't one. However, as we have already decided that we're coming back next year to do Monthly Music Challenge 2, we offer up a little winter challenge for the keen and eager. In Janurary, Cosmic Bos will do a 'MMC 2.0 intro' episode, to reintroduce the idea for next year, and give peeps the month of Jan to jam their themed jam. If you want to get in ahead of the game a bit, then we will spin on the show any 'intro's' you wish to make for your MMC2 album. We will make one, probably use it to double up as a theme tune for MMC2 podcast, not sure yet. But anyway, you have until the beginning of 2024 to send us any intros you wish, we will play them in the MMC 2.0 ep, keep 'em short, they are just intro's.

With the year coming to close in a short while, we are going to do the Monthly Music Challenge awards for year 1, if you have taken part this year you are in the runnings for an award, we will split it into two parts, with a Gold and Silver version of each award, maybe, still pondering it to be honest.

If you wanted to vote for your favourite songs from any of the previous episodes, please drop a comment on the youtube vid for the coresponding episode, we will listen to your advice, or at least read and like the comment.

Please like, share and subscribe to Cosmic Bos on youtube, we do video work too for your eyeballs.

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All that's left to say is a massive thank you to all the artists that have contributed to the MMC over 2023, and all you amazing listeners who have support this project, we really love you and it's been an absolute delight to build this community of creativity. Please comment on the MMC, it really helps spread the word and share the music far and wide.

Peace and infinite love

Cosmic Bos

P.S - Big Mic will return if you ask for him

Welcome to the Monthly Music Challenge with Cosmic Bos Podcast

Monthly Music Challenge MMC 1.9 - Superspectacular

Join Nick and Andy (Cosmic Bos) as we explore the spectacular, super spectacular in factular, freshist, most organic, juiciest indie music being made today, with all the songs having been made in September of 2023 around the theme of Superspectacular, and we must say it is something rather special indeed.

You are in for a treat here, the music served up this month is all of the highest degree, truly awesome sauce on the hotdog of life, with amazeballs tracks by John Serrano and Raul Lupianez, Andrew Hartshorn, TexMex Shaman, Mario Marino, Trench Gun, Above the Snow Line, Hellwaddler, Notehead, A Sea Warren, Broken Nomads, Mobidextrous, Taylor Lidstone and of course your idiotic hosts, Cosmic Bos.

It really is something to behold, please support all this amazing indie music that is as up to date as you can get, comments, likes, subscribes, support is what makes it all worthwhile, and these artists are truly something else, well worth your time.

You can listen to and purchase all of Cosmic Bos's Superspectacular tracks in a hand EP on bandcamp https://cosmicbos.bandcamp.com/album/mmc-19-superspectacular and if you are so inclinded, a comment makes our dayz.

Big shout out the Only the Host and his crispy crew of awesomeness, Cosmic Bos loves you all and can't wait for more of you to join the MMC, we have rooms all ready on the MMC challenger, come along for the musical ride.

Here is the full Super Spectacular Tracklist (or SuperSpectrackulist if you prefer):

• 1. Super Spectacular - Cosmic Bos
• 2. Can't Get You Out of my Head - John Serrano and Raul Lupianez
• 3. Atlantis part 1. The Majesty (single) - Andrew Hartshorn
• 4. Super - TexMex Shaman
• 5. Mecha Funk - Mario Marino
• 6. Inside Job (instrumental) - Cosmic Bos
• 7. War is a Drug - Trench Gun
• 8. Atlantis part 2. The Wrath of the Gods (twingle) - Andrew Hartshorn
• 9. Super-Spectacular - Above the Snow Line
• 10. Epiphany - Hellwaddler
• 11. Ballad of the Rainbow Disco Chicken vs Autotunebots from the Future - Cosmic Bos
• 12. Superspectacular - Notehead
• 13. No. 12 Quartet in C Minor - A Sea Warren
• 14. Star Cry - Broken Nomads
• 15. Atlantis part 3. The Aftermarth (tringle) - Andrew Hartshorn
• 16. Spectacularis - Mobidextrous
• 17. Dreamscape Promises (Late Sub for Dreams) - Taylor Lidstone
• 18. Keeping it Old School - Cosmic Bos

There you have it, amazeballs all over the pit. Probably time to tell you what the final theme of MMC1 is going to be. Without further ado, MMC 1.10 will be Finale, that's Finale

MMC 1.10 - Finale (coming 4th November)

You have till the 3rd of November to send your 'Finale' songs to us, please email an mp3 and a lil blurb to [email protected] . You can always send Late Sub's to us on any of the previous themes for the year, we have a special section for them in the show.

MMC 1.10 Finale will be the last theme for 2023, but fear not, we shall return in 2024 with MMC2, 10 more themes to build an album around. Before that though, we will do the Best of MMC1 Awards, where we will give out awards to our favourite tracks from across the years monthly music challenging. We will also do a Rest of MMC1 because there's a lot to go over.

Please like, share and subscribe to Cosmic Bos, and comments are the best thing ever, so if you've got one in you please drop it on our podcast somewhere (YouTube's good for comments), pwease and thank yow.

Peace and infinite crispy love

Cosmic Bos

P.S - Big Mick?

P.P.S - Cosmic Bos Superspectacular EP is available here https://cosmicbos.bandcamp.com/album/mmc-19-superspectacular

Welcome to the Monthly Music Challenge with Cosmic Bos Podcast (the MMC)

This is Episode 1.8 Dreams

Join Nick and Andy (Cosmic Bos) as we delve deep into dreamland, listening for clue as to if this is a wonderful dream we have found ourselves in, or a twisted nightmare from which we can not escape!

With the world in the questionable state it is currently in, it only seemed right to let the musicians of the MMC explore the internal space, where the mind is allowed to explore freely, to ponder the more existential elements of our shared experience, it could all, the whole darn lot of everything everywhere, be a dream, or a simulation, or even just the passing thoughts of an interdimentional hyper disco chicken cruising the open rainbow road! Who knows? Well not us, but maybe some answers lie in the music of this months music challenge.

So prepare to explore the world of Dreams with the musical stylings of Mobidextrous, Man of Arun, Notehead, TexMex Shaman (& StonerJazz), Tonal Drift, Andrew Hartshorn, A Sea Warren, Michel Debois, Chemical Shift (Broken Nomads), Peter Hawkey, Hellwaddler, John Serrano and your hosts Cosmic Bos, as well as a special presentation by the supergroup collaboration of Hartshorn, Jackson, Jackson and Warren! What more could you ask for?

Cosmic Bos put out our tracks as an EP on all good sites, but they also put it out on bandcamp where you can exchange money for music, it's a clever system that was developed by Gnomes a long time ago, but it seems to still be working to this very day. Here is the link to our EP, it has an alternative cover on BC too!

https://cosmicbos.bandcamp.com/album/mmc-18-dreams

You can also find several of the tracks in the show on Bandcamp or soundcloud or YouTube, depends where the amazing artists post them. Please support these awesome indie artists by visiting, listening and possibly even buying their music on Bandcamp. I know for a fact that John Serrano's track 'Crisp' is available on Bandcamp and you probably all should buy it, as well as HJJ&W's track too (from the 22nd September).

Super outergalactic shout out to Only the Host and his amazing team, we love you guys and gals. And the Music Weeklies peeps too, keeping new music fresh on the internet.

The next theme for the Monthly Music Challenge is our 9th one, and it is #SuperSpectacular, that's MMC 1.9 - SuperSpectacular

Send your mp3's with a little write up about the song (and a bio about yourself if you haven't been on the show already) to [email protected]

You have until the 6th of October to get your SuperSpectacular songs to us for inclusion, we still have the late Subs section so if you wish to submit something under any of our previous themes then you can and we might play it in the Late Subs portion of the episode.

SuperSpectacular will be the penultimate episode of MMC1, with only a final, as yet unknown theme, to go with MMC 1.10, but feel free to submit anything from the Late Sub category whenever you like. If you have played along all year, or are considering going back to take on the challenge, then on completion you will have a 10 track album, and that's pretty winning in our kindles.

Please take the time to comment, follow, share, subscribe to all the amazing artists featured on the show, and buy their music, it's absolutely worth every smeckle, the least you can do is leave a comment, and comments make artists feel validated, so pwease, pwease, pwease we beg you, leave a comment or two to feed our dopimine addictions.

Here is the full MMC 1.8 Dreams tracklist:

• 1. Could This All Be A Dream? - Cosmic Bos @CosmicBos
• 2. Confounding Dream (single) - Mobidextrous
• 3. Nothing But a Dream - Man of Arun
• 4. Lonely in Lucidity (single) - Notehead
• 5. Planks - TexMex Shaman
• 6. Unsettled Sleep - Tonal Drift
• 7. Dream's Over, Now Get to Work! - Cosmic Bos
• 8. The Dream's of Morpheus - Andrew Hartshorn
• 9. Caged Dreams - A Sea Warren
• 10. Barbenheimer - Hartshorn, Jackson, Jackson and Warren
• 11. Impossible Perks (twingle) - Mobidextrous
• 12. Dream Anthem - Michel Debois
• 13. All Through Me (twingle) - Notehead
• 14. Polarsken - Chemical Shift
• 15. Perseverance - Peter Hawkey
• 16. Persevere - Cosmic Bos
• 17. Resonant Dream (tringle) - Mobidextrous
• 18. Nanos Ex Machina (tringle) - Notehead
• 19. (LATE SUBS) Poo Poo Kickin' and Toad Lickin' - TexMex Shaman and StonerJazz
• 20. Princess in the Snow - Hellwaddler
• 21. Crisp - John Serrano
• 22. Lasting Impressions of Psycho Delia - Cosmic Bos

Thank you for listening to our show, please like, share and subscribe, leave a comment and help spread the word that the indie music scene is still alive and kicking in monthly challenge form.

Peace and infinite love

Cosmic Bos

Here's the link to our EP again, in case you missed it further up

https://cosmicbos.bandcamp.com/album/mmc-18-dreams