Monthly Music Challenge 2023 Awards - GOLD AWARDS - with your hosts 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

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  @aseawarren  
In the Beginning - Tonal Drift  @tonal_drift  
A New Beginning - Chemical Shift

Phoenix Rising - Andrew Hartshorn 
Starting Over - Third Echo Sounds

Escape Award

Breakout - Trench Gun  @trenchgunM1897  
How to Stop Time - Stefan Bohacek  @stefanbohacek  
Escapist - Notehead  @notehead9000  
Escape - Peter Hawkey  @peter_hawkey  
Dance (escape the week) - Mijimo

Ignorance Award

Without Your Love - A Sea Warren
Ignorance - Peter Hawkey
I is for Ignorance - Hellwaddler  @Hellwaddler  
Ignorance - Mobidextrous  @mobidextrous9777  
Eden - Andrew Hartshorn  @andrewhartshornmusic  
The Size of the Stars - Notehead 

Winning Award

Smell Defeat - Notehead
Winning isn't Everything - Man of Arun  @ManOfArun  
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  @scowsh  
Just Make it Up - Hellwaddler 

Artificial Intelligence Award

Ghost in the Machine - J Peck  @JPeck  
Dichotomy - Natalie Williams Calhoun  @cellonatw  
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  @cemichalshift  

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  @abovethesnowlinemusic  
Epiphany - Hellwaddler

Finale Award

Feed Me the Finale - Notehead
Lost - Only the Host  @onlythehost  
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

Monthly Music Challenge (MMC) 1.10 - Finale (the last challenge of the year 2023)

 Welcome to the Monthly Music Challenge podcast 

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 @mobidextrous9777  
3. Finale - Above the Snow Line ft. John Serrano  @abovethesnowlinemusic  
4. Monotony - Trench Gun @trenchgunM1897  
5. Feed me the Finale - Notehead  @notehead9000  
6. True Story - Texmex Shaman and Tea R Sea 
7. Life & His Lover - Andrew Hartshorn  @andrewhartshornmusic  
8. Once Stowaway - Voltage Poetry Project
9. Finale 2023 - Taylor Lidstone @hidamao_o3940  
10. Noot & Carnage - Hellwaddler  @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  @aseawarren  
16. Lost - Only the Host  @onlythehostmusic  
17. Changing My Mind - Uncle Funkbeard  @UncleFunkbeard  
18. Fallin - The Eclectic Collective (Texmex Shaman)  @TexMexShaman  
19. Bootymancer - Notehead 
20. A New Beginning - Chemical Shift/Broken Nomads  @Brokennomads  
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.

Please like, share and subscribe to @CosmicBos we do video work too for your eyeballs

Peace and infinite love

Cosmic Bos

Monthly Music Challenge podcast 1.9 Superspectacular - with your hosts Cosmic Bos

 Hello wonderful you,

Welcome to the 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 cosmicbos@gmail.com . 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

Here's our lyric video for Super Spectacular, we went full gween squeen

P.S - Big Mick?

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

Or listen on this handy embed, maybe pick yourself up a copy? or drop a comment?

Tribute to Tribute - Cosmic Bos's tribute to Tribute by Tenacious D

 Hello my rockin' amigo's,

Welcome to the gates of Hell! Where musicians must fight demon's to save the very fabric of our existence. Andy and Nick Jackson (Cosmic Bos) stood before such a demon and used the powers of Tenacious D to save us all. Here is the video evidence of this mighty quest.

Tribute by Tenacious D is arguably the greatest tribute to the greatest song in the world that has even been made. Cosmic Bos have chosen to honour the greatest song in the world by doing a tribute to the tribute to the greatest song in the world.

Brothers Andy and Nick (Jackson) - Cosmic Bos, have been making music for a long time, one of the very first bonding experiences with music for the Jackson brothers was the self titled debut album by Tenacious D - Jack Black and Kyle Gass created a masterpiece with that album, and it was whist visiting America (Florida to be precise, for the theme parks) that the very British Jackson brothers did stumble upon Tenacious D. Purchased from a record store in an outlet mall along with the Spinal Tap Soundtrack, Nick and Andy proceeded to spend their two week holiday learning every lyric, skit and harmony that the album had to offer. Nick was 15 at the time, Andy was 21, and their vocal only rendition of 'F**k Her Gently' on the boat ride to Disneyland was both inappropriate and hilarious.

Tribute is the stand out song on the album, it is a true masterpiece on its own. The video is also a masterpiece in Cosmic Bos's opinion. Nick and Andy learnt to play and perform the song shortly after returning from America. Several years later it would be their party piece, once an acoustic guitar had been located at a party it wouldn't be long before the pre Cosmic Bos brothers would be flig-a-guinging their way through a ropey rendition of Tribute.

Now all these many moons later, Nick and Andy have been making music together as Cosmic Bos for over 5 years, embodying the spirit of the D, continuing their quest to find the greatest song in the world and share it with everyone. They found it only fitting to honour the song that inspired their lifelong quest, give praise to the musical gods that Jack Black and Kyle Gass are, and offer to help them in their quest to be the greatest band in the world, maybe take the septa for a while, maybe even take over as they are getting on a bit now.

Tribute to Tribute is Cosmic Bos's tribute to Tribute by Tenacious D, Andy and Nick attempted to lovingly recreate the original video as much as they could. Not having access to a suitable 'recording booth' as in the original video, the lads just decided to skip all that and cut straight to the song.

Please consider subscribing to us on YouTube

And like, share and comment on the video, especially if you are Jack Black or Kyle Gass (we love you guys)

Peace and infinite success

Cosmic Bos

P.S - here is our audio only page on youtube, please consider subscribing there too :)

Album Writing Club 2023 - Hartshorn, Jackson, Jackson and Warren - Sound Investments

 Hello prospective client,

Andy Jackson here, from Hartshorn, Jackson, Jackson and Warren, I am one of the partners in this musical business that was set up for the #AlbumWritingClub 2023 and I am head of the vocal/lyrics and promotional department of HJJ&W

For your consideration, I present to you 'Playing Office' by Hartshorn, Jackson, Jackson and Warren

Hartshorn Jackson Jackson Warren · Playing Office

This song is one of the 11 tracks on the album 'Sound Investments' that HJJ&W submitted to the albumwritingclub competition. 

This is the second year that Lights and Lines record label have run this wonderful competition, last year the partners of HJJ&W had taken part in the comp separately, as Andrew Hartshorn, Cosmic Bos (the Jackson brothers) and ASeaWarren (Al Warren), developing friendships through discussions around the competition, working together in different capacities before joining forces to tackle Album Writing Club Year 2.

Here is the full playlist of entrants to the singles competition part of the album competition.

You can vote for your 3 favourites here VOTING FORM (pick your top 3)

Lights And Lines · #AlbumWritingClub2023 - Best Single (Public Vote)

Anyway, back to the business at hand, the musical business of Hartshorn, Jackson, Jackson and Warren.

Headed up by the CEO of Monochrome Motif Records, Mr. Andrew Hartshorn is the first name in our musical business, we call him the Big Dog, mainly because he's the oldest not because he's particularly dog like in any sense of the word. Hartshorn runs a tight ship, having at the beginning of 2023 assembled his labels artists and affiliates to produce the epic Poseidon's Realm under the name the Monochrome Assembly. 

Purchase the album from this embedded link to band camp, and enjoy the video to the song 'It's Between Me and the Sea' from the very album. It features Andrew Hartshorn and the two Jacksons of HJJ&W.

This rather smoothly moves us on to the aforementioned Jackson brothers, Cosmic Bos.

The hosts of the Monthly Music Challenge (MMC), Cosmic Bos love to make music, lots of it, in loads of genres and styles, and then make videos for some of them, if not all of them. 

Cosmic Bos operate a DIY approach and have to date managed to rack up quite a discography of musical experimentation. Working directly with Andrew Hartshorn since last years competition, Cosmic Bos have developed a close working bond with Monochrome Motif. With Andrew Hartshorn taking part in the MMC and Bos being part of the Monochrome Assembly along with...

The Warren part of HJJ&W, Mr. Al Warren, ASeaWarren, musical guru and all round legend of the soundscapes, working with Hartshorn on his debut Orchestral Suite and becoming a New and Notable on Bandcamp with it (awesome work Al). Al was also a key member of the Monochrome Assembly. 

Al (as we are officially allowed to call Mr. Warren) is also a participant in the MMC, and once word had got out that Mike 5 was running Album Writing Club again in 2023, it didn't take long for the 4 partners to combine their unique musical skills and form Hartshorn, Jackson, Jackson and Warren

Further details about HJJ&W will be made available to the public in due course.

Thank you for your time, please consider following us on Soundcloud whilst we build our profile and prepare to take this business venture public. https://soundcloud.com/hartshorn-jackson-jackson-warren profile

Kind Regards

Andy Jackson partner in HJJ&W

Monthly Music Challenge (MMC) 1.4 - Winning podcast

 Winning!

Welcome to the Monthly Music Challenge Podcast with Cosmic Bos

Episode 1.4 - Winning

Cosmic Bos (Nick and Andy Jackson) present for your listening pleasure the finest in underground musical talent building a musical empire, one hashtag at a time, for the fourth outing of the first year of the MMC, we took on the epic concept of #Winning, and invited the worlds musicians to also take part, and some of them did, and here it is, in podcast form for you.

This is the first hashtag that we have undertaken without being partnered up with the music weeklies peeps (check them out, they are awesome sauce), but rest assured, this episode still contains several of the challenges set by the weeklies, once all the Winning has been dealt with.

And, returning once again, we have the Late Subs section, with some tasty musical treats for your ears around the previous hashtags of the MMC.

Before #SpoilerAlert ending the show with a track from the Poseidon's Realm album by the Monochrome Assembly

Check out the Monochrome Assembly bandcamp here https://monochromemotif.bandcamp.com/album/poseidons-realm-album

The next hashtag for Monthly Music Challengers is #Razzmajazz 

in conjunction with the Music Weeklies again, we challenge you to explore your expressive Jazz, be wild, be bold, and see what happens, it's all that kinda jazz baby! You have until the 2nd of June to get your Rasmajazz songs to us, send mp3's and a bio or song info to cosmicbos@gmail.com 

We begin proceedings this time with (surprise, surprise) Cosmic Bos and our song We Are All in This Together (which we made a lyric video for)

Here is the full tracklist for MMC 1.4 Winning

Winning songs

1. We Are All in this Together - Cosmic Bos @CosmicBos
2. Slow and Steady Wins the Race - Andrew Hartshorn
3. You Can't Be A Winner (If You're A Sinner) - ASeaWarren @aseawarren
4. D - Hellwaddler @Hellwaddler
5. Let's Go Bro! - TexMex Shaman
6. Winning isn't Everything - Man of Arun @ManOfArun
7. Smell Defeat - Notehead
8. Winning (Deep Friend Mix) - Mobidextrous  @mobidextrous9777

What a collection of Winning songs right there, all returning players to the MMC, with an eclectic take on the theme, bangers one and all, go check out all these wonders on the socials.

On to the weekly hashtag songs provided by the @musicweeklies 

TuneWithAView

9. TuneWithAView - Cosmic Bos @CosmicBos
10.  Tune With A View - Peter Hawkey @peter_hawkey

MyCulture

11. Kick in the Cultures - Cosmic Bos @CosmicBos
12. Scrying Mirror - Notehead

Accelerate

13. Accelerate - Tonal Drift
14. Accelerate - Scowsh Molosh @scowsh
15. Sprint - Cosmic Bos @CosmicBos

That leaves us with the LATE SUBS, Whoop Whoop!

16. in the beginning (#NewBeginnings) - Tonal Drift
17. Ignorance (#Ignorance) - TexMex Shaman

And finally, to cap the episode off nicely, we present to you another track from the Poseidon's Realm album by the Monochrome Assembly

18. The Seagull - The Monochrome Assembly 

Thanks for listening and supporting, please consider subscribing and leaving comments and share with all your friends

Here is Cosmic Bos EP MMC 1.4 Winning on bandcamp, where you can purchase it should you be so inclined.

Here is the podcast playlist courtesy of YouTube

Peace and infinite love

Cosmic Bos

MMC 1.3 - Ignorance (Monthly Music Challenge with Cosmic Bos podcast) 27 songs for you, no soup though I'm afraid

 Hello lovely you,

Welcome to the blog for the new episode of Monthly Music Challenge podcast

Monthly Music Challenge with Cosmic Bos

Episode 1.3 - Ignorance

 Cosmic Bos (Nick and Andy Jackson) are the idiots here to take you through the 27 songs of the third month of the challenge. The main monthly theme was #Ignorance and 13 of the songs you will hear today were written around that idea. 

 Thanks to the amazing people of Music Weeklies we managed to secure some other wonderful songs through the other hashtags of March 2023, and we also introduce a new section at the end of the podcast called Late Subs, so if you want to get in on the Monthly Music Challenge action you can send us songs based on the previous Monthly hashtags (1. New Beginnings, 2. Escape, and now 3. Ignorance) for a chance to be played in the Late Subs.

 Before we delve into the full tracklist, it's our pleasure to announce the next hashtag for the MMC, so MMC 1.4 will be #Winning. We are not paired with the Music Weeklies peeps on this one, so there is no pressure to get your monthly song finished in a week.

 Get your #Winning songs in to us by 5th May 2023 please, if you are new to the MMC then send an MP3 with a bio about yourself to cosmicbos@gmail.com , without further adoing let's get on with the show.

 Ignorance Songs

  1. Idiots - Cosmic Bos @CosmicBos  

  2. Ignorance - Mobidextrous @mobidextrous9777  

  3. Ignorance - Peter Hawkey @peter_hawkey  

  4. Artificial Ignorance - Graham Casey 

  5. Ignorance - Dario Erico @Deadarius  

  6. Wilful Ignorance - Trench Gun @trenchgunM1897  

  7. MuWee Ignorance - Scowsh Molosh @scowsh  

  8. Ignorance - The Shiver One @theshiverone1977  

  9. The Size of the Stars - Notehead 

 10. I is for Ignorance - Hellwaddler @Hellwaddler   

 11. Eden - Andrew Hartshorn @andrewhartshornmusic  

 12. Without Your Love - ASeaWarren @aseawarren  

 13. Ignorance (Boris Johnson) - Reuben Cooper  

Now that's a lot of great ignorance songs right there, some returning players and a couple of new faces, go check out all these amazing artists on their socials

 UpsideDown Songs

  14. Down for the Upside - Cosmic Bos  

  15. Free Flow - Notehead 

  16. Downside Up - Esky013 

GodsOfOlympus Songs

  17. Gods and Goddesses of Olympus - Cosmic Bos 

  18. Ares God of War - Michel Debois  @micheldebois  

MW200thTheme Songs

  19. Reflections of our Inescapable Humanity (No Soup for You) - Cosmic Bos 

  20. Because it was - Man of Arun @ManOfArun  

  21. Post Apocalyptic - Hellwaddler @Hellwaddler    

PainoSolo Songs

  22. Reflections in the Ethereal Water - Ashen Music  @ashenmusicofficial  

  23. Ivory and Ebony - Cosmic Bos  

Late Subs (Brand new section we added on for all the late submissions)

  24. Escape This! - TexMex Shaman 

  25. Pretend to Escape - Colin Pimlott @colinpimlott9029  

  26. Love Restored -  The Word Alchemist and Cosmic Bos   

  27. Let the Shaman Show You Round -  @TexMexShaman  and Cosmic Bos  

That's ya lot, and it sure is a lot, a lot of great music.

 We (Cosmic Bos) put all of our tracks out in a handy EP, which coincidently has the same name as this episode of the podcast, MMC 1.3 - Ignorance, you can get it on bandcamp here

https://cosmicbos.bandcamp.com/album/mmc-13-ignorance

 And you can find video versions of all of our entries on youtube on our channel here

And here is the youtube playlist of the Monthly Music Challenge

Please check out all the amazing musicians of the MMC, their socials will be pleased, help us build this community of true grass roots musicians, tell your musical friends to come get involved, it's still really early days with this, and together we can make it a force to reckon with, an alternative music industry of creative expression. Also, don't forget the next theme is #Winning, so get making your winning songs.

 Thanks for being awesome

We love you

Please like, share and subscribe 

Peace and infinite love

Cosmic Bos

Direct podcast page - https://cosmicbos.libsyn.com 

MMC Playlist on youtube again just in case you missed it above

Monthly Music Challenge (MMC) 1.2 - Escape (ft. 25 songs all made in Feb 2023)

 Hello friends,

Welcome to Monthly Music Challenge with Cosmic Bos Podcast, episode 1.2 - Escape

Monthly Music Challenge with Cosmic Bos

Episode 1.2 - Escape

Cosmic Bos (Nick and Andy Jackson) are here to guide you through the wonderfully creative set of 25 songs (that's right! 25 chooons for you) all built around the hashtags of Feb 2023 (#Escape, #Freedom, #StandOut & #Family)set by the wonderful peeps of Music Weeklies (check out the community on Twitter) favouring the first one of course, as that is the monthly challenge.

Before we delve deep into this bag of music, so you know what the challenge is for March, the next episode will be MMC 1.3 - #Ignorance - so get writing your ignorance songs to submit to the podcast, closing date 7th April. Okay, business out the way, let's get down to, err, business.

Escape songs

• 1. Make Good Our Escape (Monthly version) - Cosmic Bos
• 2. Break Out - Trench Gun
• 3. Escape - Peter Hawkey
• 4. Run - Steve 3rd Echo Sounds
• 5. Scrambling Free - Graham Casey
• 6. Escape - Scowsh Molosh
• 7. Escape - Mobidextrous
• 8. How to Stop Time - Stefan Bohacek
• 9. Dance (Escape the Week) - Mijimo
• 10. Endure and Survive - Aaliya Mondesir (Lovely Mango)
• 11. Escape - ASeaWarren
• 12. The Fall of Icarus - Andrew Hartshorn
• 13. Escapist - Notehead
• 14. 7749 - Hellwaddler

Wowsa! What a line up! Some returning players and some newbies to the MMC, go check out all these amazing artists on Twitter.

Freedom songs

• 15. But What Does Freedom Mean? - Cosmic Bos
• 16. Disenfranchised - Trench Gun
• 17. Watching the Sky - Hellwaddler
• 18. Price of Freedom is Death - Stefan Bohacek

StandOut songs

• 19. Stand Out - Cosmic Bos
• 20. Stand Out There - David Patterson
• 21. Out Standing - Cosmic Bos

Family songs

• 22. Muwee Family Nintendo tracker - Scowsh Molosh
• 23. Family Plan - Mobidextrous
• 24. Family Tree - Cosmic Bos

And that's all the hashtag songs, Outer Galactic shout out to all the amazing musicians that sent in their tracks, you guys are awesome and we love all of you, let's spread the word and get even more creative, talented musicians involved.

We added a little bonus feature to the end of this show too, as we are evolving this idea and watching it take shape. We were asked by The Word Alchemist to do an instrumental version of one of Nick's older songs, which we did, and then it seemed only natural to add the vocal and before we knew it we had a fully finished song.

So, we launch this new feature into the Monthly Music Challenge by in which, if the inspiration from the hashtag of the month isn't grabbing you, you can raid your musical archive and spruce up, rework or simply redo something from your songbook, we are calling this section 

FromTheSongbook songs

And Cosmic Bos are going first with this, so here's the first entry to the Songbook section of the MMC

• 25. Heart Holder - Cosmic Bos

Heart Holder was originally recorded by Cosmic Bos as part of a special presentation in Season 2 of our podcast, and it's a totally banger, with Nick taking the lead vocal and the guitars pumping it all up. It was fun doing a proper recording of it, and as is the usual Bos way, we will see where this feature goes, we have plenty of songs in our own songbooks which may appear here...

You can purchase our full EP on bandcamp

Thanks for listening, please like, share and subscribe, and leave us a review on your podcasting platform of choice (it helps spread the word and build our musical community)

https://linktr.ee/cosmicbos - climb our tree of links

Also here is the direct podcast homepage https://cosmicbos.libsyn.com 

Also YouTube does us quite well, and the full podcast is available there too, so here's that link

Coming Up Next Month is Monthly Music Challenge 1.3 - Ignorance, get making those songs 

Peace and infinite love

Cosmic Bos

Oh and, check out this amazing Midnight Gospel style artwork of Andy from Cosmic Bos (Thanks Dayne, we love you)

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Family Tree - Cosmic Bos #Family music weeklies challenge entry

 Hello fam,

Straight off the bat I want to say, I love you, you are amazing, thank you for coming to our little corner of the internet, we hope you enjoy your time here.

Family Tree by Cosmic Bos

For the #Family weeklies music challenge, the final hashtag of Feb 2023.

I (Andy) really love and respect my family, they have been instrumental in my development as a human being and I am eternally grateful to them all, and my friends as well, love you all. This song is for all of you, every human that is part of the great human family tree.

Here's the TikTok video I made for it, on youtube 

Also, quick heads up, Monthly Music Challenge 1.2 Escape is coming on the 5th March, and our EP of 5 tracks from Feb is available right now on bandcamp (and everywhere else tomorrow). We will do a proper blog about it tomorrow, but in the meanwhile,

Here's the embedded Bandcamp link

Please consider purchasing this fine collection of recently put together songs, we love you either way.

Have a great rest of the day fam, stay beautiful

Peace and infinite love

Cosmic Bos

Monthly Music Challenge 1.1 - New Beginnings with Cosmic Bos (17 songs for you)

 Hello music adjacent person,

Here it is, the first proper episode of the Monthly Music Challenge with Cosmic Bos

Welcome to the Monthly Music Challenge with Cosmic Bos

Episode 1.1 - New Beginnings

@CosmicBos have a wonderful show for you here, the opening tracks to some potentially groundbreaking albums, 17 songs on the slate from a plethora of music makers. 

Nick and Andy take you through the New Beginnings songs, and Spoiler Alert! They are awesome.

#NewBeginnings Songs

1. Nude Beginnings (Monthly version) - Cosmic Bos
2. Letters from Home - Trench Gun
3. New Beginnings - Peter Hawkey
4. Starting Over - Steve 3rd Echo Sounds
5. New Beginnings - Hellwaddler
6. Phoenix Rising - Andrew Hartshorn
7. New Beginnings - The Word Alchemist (and Cosmic Bos)
8. New Beginnings - ASeaWarren

What a lineup! Go check out all these wonderful musicians on the socials, tell them how awesome they are.

If that wasn't enough, we opened up the floor to the other hashtags for the month run by @MusicWeeklies (go check out our partners in crime on this musical adventure) on Twitter

The other hashtags for the month were

#Pixels Songs

9. One Pixel at a Time - Cosmic Bos
10. Pixel - Aaliya Mondesir Lovely Mango
11. Pixels - Hellwaddler

#Geisha Songs

12. The Geisha Song - Cosmic Bos
13. The Mystery Summer Geisha - Hidama
14. Curse of the Geisha - Hellwaddler

#Industrial Songs

15. Industrial - Scowsh Molosh
16. Industrial - Hellwaddler
17. We Worked Hard for You - Cosmic Bos

A massive thank you to all the artists that submitted to this episode, you are amazing and we are really excited to see where your Monthly Music Challenge album goes.

The hashtag for episode 1.2 is #Escape

So get writing your escape songs now, go, have a Pina Colada (wink, wink), come up with a catchy hook.

Please like, share and subscribe to Cosmic Bos

https://linktr.ee/cosmicbos

You can buy Cosmic Bos EP - New Beginnings from bandcamp, please come follow us over there and share the musical love

https://cosmicbos.bandcamp.com/album/mmc-11-new-beginnings 

Here is the YouTube video version should you like your Monthly Music served in that particular fashion

Peace and infinite love

Cosmic Bos

P.S - we also made a lyric video to go with Nude Beginnings Monthly Version, it would have had it's own blog but I missed the timing on it's release, so it gets to live here on the end of this blog instead.

We Worked Hard for You (demo) - by Cosmic Bos for #industrial

 Hello workers,

Welcome to this quick little podcast containing Cosmic Bos's entry to the #industrial music challenge presented by Music Weeklies.

We Worked Hard for You by Cosmic Bos

This is my (Andy's) song about industrial action, going on strike, standing up for workers rights.

#Industrial marks the final hashtag for January and you can submit tracks made under this banner up until the 3rd Feb 2023 (just in case you are reading this in the future, which you most defiantly are because it is impossible for you to be reading it at the point I am writing it, unless you have some kind of time travel camera that can film the past as if it were now, in which case, please share that technology with us)

The weekend will be Monthly Music Challenge 1.1 New Beginnings, and you can still submit your songs made around that banner until the 3rd Feb too (as well as Pixels and Geisha).

Please like, share and subscribe, and tell all your musical friends to listen and take part.

https://linktr.ee/cosmicbos 

We have made a video to go with our #NewBeginnings track, which we will drop at the weekend too, excited for you all to hear it, Nick has done a bang up job and the opening track to our Monthly Music Challenge Album is, well, a banger.

Here's the YouTube version of We Worked Hard for You, with the video I made for it.

So, finally, we will be putting out MMC 1.1 - New Beginnings as an EP, containing our 4 Music Weeklies tracks (Nude Beginnings, One Pixel at a Time, The Geisha Song and We Worked Hard for You), it will be available for bandcamp Friday, so please get your wallets ready. 

Peace and infinite love

Cosmic Bos

Happy New Year! Have a drink in musical form - it's The Drunky Song

 Newpy Happy Ear me dears,

Cosmic Bos are going to launch their new Monthly Music Challenge this coming weekend (Friday
evening in the UK via Music Weeklies Twitter Hashtag Challenge), and I (Andy) have been taking part in the weekly musical creating since back in August last year. I made 21 hashtag songs in 2022, and one final one before the Monthly Challenge Launch for the final hashtag of last year #Drunk

Not my usual offering for sure, but I got an equipment upgrade at Christmas so wanted to flex some dance music muscles and let the guitar have a week off, instead turning to the trusty MiniNova to do the musical heavy lifting.

Here is a playlist of all 22 Music Weeklies Challenges I did, with a couple of upgraded demo's in there too from Cosmic Bos' EP - Virtual Normality 2.

Here's the link tree to all your Cosmic Bos branches, we have music and videos and podcasts all for Free!

https://linktr.ee/cosmicbos

Send money to us via musical purchases from any online retailer, but especially Bandcamp because, well, we get more dosh that way.

Peace and infinite love

Cosmic Bos