In 2022, Nick and Andy worked on some really fun, exciting projects, and it seemed fitting to close out the year with a little acoustic performance of a selection of the years songs made by Cosmic Bos.
Also, the boys did a cover of a Dan Wilson song, Dancing on the Moon, which was Baby Theo's favourite song on the year (he made us play it to him lots and lots). There had been plans for a whole 'Dan Wilson' special, but alas, time got the better of us and the idea has been put back on the shelf to be revisited at a later date (WE LOVE YOU DAN WILSON - you are an inspiration)
The end of the year is near, and 2021 has been one hell of a one indeed.
To end our musical adventure for season 3 of our podcast, we present to you Cosmic Bos Improvisation 4: The COVID 1920's
Cosmic Bos
Improvisation 4: The COVID 1920's
Tracklist:
The Eleventh Hour
Ignore the Alarm
Ay Kalimba
Higher Frequency
Empowerment
Broken by Desire
Signs of Repetition
Make this Right
Thinking Solutions
Words of Wisdom 9: Medicine Women (ft. Shonagh Home)
Wordless Wisdom
Brand New
All music improvised by Joe Philogene, Nick Jackson and Andy Jackson.
Mixed and Mastered by Andy Jackson
Our final improvised presentation for you in 2021 is our 4th fully improvised (not revised) session, recorded on 21st August 2021.
With pre-written lyrics aplenty, the Cosmic Bos chaps tackle some weighty subjects, ranging from Power struggles to Human evolution, Medicine and History, with a healthy sprinkling of suggestions on how to maybe make things right rather then taking this hand basket all the way to hell.
Thank you for taking the time to listen to our musical explorations, it has been an amazing music adventure in 2021 for us at Cosmic Bos and we are truly excited to explore even further in 22. But that's the future, and we are here now, so enjoy this moment.
There are a few videos still to come from our COVID 1920's exploration, with Broken by Desire, Thinking Solutions and Brand New all having vids we've made. Here is Higher Frequency featuring footage from Mark of Zorro from 1920.
Peace and infinite love
Cosmic Bos
P.S - We are planning to do our Best of Season 3 in December this year rather than hanging it over to next year, so we can start fresh with an exciting new thing we have in our bag of tricks.
November has swept in and prepares us for the seasonal shifts that do strange things to our minds.
Alarm bells be ringing, but no one seems to be listening.
Ignore the Alarm - Cosmic Bos
Taken from Improvisation 4: The COVID 1920's
The next in our fully improvised album series is the 4th outing for Joe, Nick and Andy, serving up 12 improv pieces, one of which is a Words of Wisdom about Medicine Women (Shonagh Moon), and one of course is the above 'Ignore the Alarm'.
Video featuring Buster Keaton in an amazing performance in a film called 'Neighbours'.
The album will be on all good platforms on the 20th of November. There will also be a couple more video releases before then, with the next single 'Brand New' all lined up ready for next week.
We are excited to present this record to you, it's a bit different from the previous 3 improvised albums, certainly has a flavour all its own, but such is the nature of improvisation, it's like a box of chocolates, you never know which movie reference you're gonna get.
Thanks for being awesome, we love you here at Cosmic Bos.
Have a wonderful day
Cosmic Bos
Here is the YouTube link to the video should the podcast link above have let you down, or you just prefer to support the big tube in the sky.
You are looking lovely today, have you done something with your third eye?
Well, it's August now, and time for another couple of hours of improvised music with a sprinkling of wise words from 4 very powerful speakers.
Cosmic Bos Improvisation 3: Summadelica
Tracklist:
Ideas
Space Babies
On the Take
Frantic Pedantic
Precious Moments
Words of Wisdom 5: Charlie Chaplin
Rainbow Appearing
Perfect Summer Day
Words of Wisdom 6: Nelson Mandela
Hold On a Little Longer
The Things
Words of Wisdom 7: Greta Thunberg
Pleased, pleased, pleased, with what I've got
Words of Wisdom 8: Ram Dass
Moral Compass
All music improvised by Cosmic Bos
Joe Philogene - Percussion, Ngoni and various instruments
Nick Jackson - Electric and Acoustic Guitar, Synth and Vocals
Andy Jackson - Electric and Acoustic Guitar, Synth and Vocals
On the 5th June 2021, Cosmic Bos met at a secret location to record the third in their fully improvised series, with a book full of pre-written lyrics and plenty of snacks. It was a wonderful afternoon of musical exploration, and here for your pleasure is the whole thing, including some of the intros and outros that usually get cut off, there is about 20 mins of it, that is not present on the album version.
The words of wisdoms for this episode where lovingly borrowed from YouTube, with Charlie Chaplin's speech being from the film The Great Dictator (1940) and available on youtube many times, with music accompanying it. Nelson Mandela's speech from his release from prison in 1990 also comes from youtube and shares far to many similarities to Chaplin's speech from 50 years before. Which leads us to Greta Thunberg from December 2019 addressing the UN on Climate Change, with echos of both Chaplin and Mandela.
So as not to feel too down and out about the state of the world and the people that patrol it, the final Words of Wisdom comes from Ram Dass, an ever reliable source of great wisdom. The full Ram Dass speech can be found on the Here and Now podcast, link to the specific episode right here.
The conclusion of the Sunrise Reflections comes in the form of 2 songs, the penultimate track being Clearly Designed, and the final song being Pinata of Troy.
Clearly Designed - Cosmic Bos Improvisation
Ngoni - Joe Philogene
Electric Guitar - Nick Jackson
Acoustic Guitar and Vocals - Andy Jackson
After the deep thinking soul soothing antics of Ram Dass, it is time for the smokey wisdom of Cosmic Bos, with Joe using his Hunters Harp to hold the song together, Andy and Nick help build the tapestry. At the end of our musical/visual journey we are at our most burnt out, and beautiful colourful smoke carries our almost final musical opus away, the sun sets and the day is done, after the next one (Piñata of Troy).
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Here are the lyrics which were written prior to the musical improv.
Clearly Designed - by Andy Jackson
Waiting out another cycle Too many layers to this trifle Clearly designed and built to shine But socially easy to stifle
Wear the honour like a hat There really is no shame in that Clearly designed and made to shine You’re the hipster coolest cat
Normally the normal me Would embrace all that I can see The signs are all designed clearly Proving this ain’t reality
Save your memories in a chest One day it will be all that’s left Clearly refined preserved design Testament to your dying breath
Normally the normal me Gets swept up in catastrophe Of late though I’ve designed clearly A proclaimed self sufficiency
Systems trotted out and barely tested Propping up the failed reinvested A clear design fault finally been bested Medal goes to third, the hairy chested
Normally the normal me Gets glitched out by bad latency On this occasion I’ll agree To check this was designed clearly
...
and finally...
Pinata of Troy - Cosmic Bos
The final track from Cosmic Bos Improvisation 2: Sunrise Reflections sees the sun setting on our adventure and the Pinata being gifted to Troy.
Percussion - Joe Philogene
Electric Guitar and Synth - Nick Jackson
Acoustic Guitar and Vocals - Andy Jackson
PIÑATA Of TROY - lyrics by Andy Jackson
Slow cooking up a cluster duck
Shredded, pancaked, out of luck
From pond to plate
Best not to wait
Or moral issues surface
Go Derek on the little things
Kindness floats on angel wings
From start to end
The great pretend
Will barely scratch the surface
Back end of the convoy
First to see the decoy
But treated like a chew toy
Piñata given to Troy
It’s animal to instinct
Not capable of deep think
But baby, bath and the sink
Don’t deserve discarding
It’s human to be lazy
It’s chaos wrapped in crazy
memory is some what hazy
Unless directed by Scorcese
Back end of the convoy
First to see the decoy
Treated like a chew toy
Pinata given to Troy
...
At the end we have our toy horse full of treats, ready to be given to someone who will hopefully enjoy it and get something positive from it, we are not enemies, but friends who haven't met yet, so here's a piñata. Our journey concludes.
What a journey it has been, from the early twinklings of Time is Now, through the ups and downs of Sunrises, Intentions, Bad Decisions, World Feelings worth staying for, wise wise Ram Dass, Being in the now, Now, reflecting, reflective...to the end, where the oversized Pinata is gifted to the enemy, so we may all be friends and solve this riddle of existence together, for together is always better.
The sun sets on this journey, the second of our fully improvised album releases, utilising the sunsets filmed after the session from our window, we close this book. But fear not, for the story is far from over, and Improvisation 3: Summadelica is already in the bag and itching to get out.
Sunrise Reflections was a truly wonderful project to work on, and Joe Philogene brought so much love, energy and talent to the core of this work which gave Nick and Andy such a rich space to explore musically, it was an honour.
Also Ram Dass, what can be said about Ram Dass?!
Mainly for what we were using him for it was rhythm, Ram Dass speaks with such flow and rhythm that combining his voice with our improvised music just worked so well, so well in fact that we used him for all of the improvised Words of Wisdom sections, as well as the song that bore his books title 'Be Here Now'.
Check out the Here and Now podcast to hear lots of awesome mind opening speeches by Ram Dass
Also check out our podcast for plenty of improvised musical shenanigans and visual funfoolery, we love you dearly and have something special to share with you, it's in our podcast somewhere, go have a look.
We came here for the fun, but stayed here for the feeling
Track 9 on Cosmic Bos Improvisation 2: Sunrise Reflections
Percussion - Joe Philogene
Electric Guitar and Backing Vocals - Nick Jackson
Acoustic Guitar and Vocals - Andy Jackson
Video by Nick and Andy Jackson
After a couple of sets of wise words from the almighty Ram Dass, Cosmic Bos come back to their musical roots and serve up a somewhat simple singer songwriter kinda song. With lyrics by Andy, the chaps came here for the fun, but stayed here for the feeling.
Stayed Here for the Feeling - Lyrics by Andy Jackson
Spread across the bed
While the mower’s in the shed
Gets dustier and rustier
Use paving stones instead
Lazy built an empire
And then slept through the day
Generations greatest gifts
Casually thrown away
But fun is what we came for
The feelings’ why we stayed
We’ll decimate the buffet
And likely misbehave
Yonder window sunset
Yesterday was better
Except for the pain we felt
So easy to forget her
Tomorrow could be easy
Or is that simply dreaming
Came here for the fun
But stayed here for the feeling
Today is all okay
This is time worth stealing
Came here for the fun
Stayed here for the feeling
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Track 6 of our Sunrise Reflections is the magical Feel the World
The 6th outing from Cosmic Bos Improvisation 2: Sunrise Reflections is the beautiful song Feel the World, accompanied by some stunning nature photography.
Percussion and Vocals - Joe Philogene
Electric Guitar and Backing Vocals - Nick Jackson
Acoustic Guitar and Backing Vocals - Andy Jackson
Feel the World - lyrics by Joe Philogene
One Heart,
One Soul,
One Mind
Feel the World
Utilising a selection of percussive instruments (including the spinny round the head wwoooooo making thing) Joe leads the chant to Mother Earth, and we spend some time in the relaxing forest making sweet fairy music for all of the wonders that surround us.
Cosmic Bos are big fans of the World, it's pretty neat, and we think that it deserves more attention, some more songs about it, especially after all it's done for us. We are somewhat ungrateful children to the Earth, and it really is time we tidied our room before the threat of no dinner becomes an actuality.
Spend time outside, go and feel the world in your lungs, let the bird song enrich your soul, let the breeze tickle your senses, and remember that we are all part of the same thing, we are all in this together (cough, Mr Bezos!).
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The fifth track from Improv 2 finds us back with a set of lyrics to contemplate existence and some trippy visuals to sooth the eyes.
Percussions - Joe Philogene
Electric Guitar and Backing Vocals - Nick Jackson
Acoustic Guitar and Vocals - Andy Jackson
Intentionally - lyrics by Andy Jackson
Intentionally slowing down
Potentially turn this frown
Upside down and inside out
See what this is all about
Trickery came thick at me
Distorted all reality
But truth wins eventually
Tunnelling through intentionally
Intentionally freaking out
Sucking juice from seeds of doubt
Drafting up the backless gown
Mooning the entire town
Trickery comes down the line
Causing shifts in fickle time
But truth will win the vintage wine
Intentionally solving the crime
Intentionally, Potentially, Intentionally
On a simple chord sequence, the Bos chaps present a haunting tale of intentions, facing the trickery that we face daily, not being afraid to stand up for ourselves, be questioning, don't just accept apathy, be present in the moment so you can live your life with intention, intentionally.
Joe beats the frame drums to the rhythm of our souls, while Nick wails the woes with the electric and Andy teaches his acoustic a lesson in strumming. Fun stuff indeed. This song, like all the previous songs in this presentation has begun it's journey as an improvisation, come up with there and then, with the pre-written lyrics serving as a guide for some thoughtful rhymes and vibes, when the lyrics are left to also be improvised they tend to lean towards the silly side of the spectrum rather then the profound.
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The fourth song from Cosmic Bos Improvisation 2: Sunrise Reflections, and the next instalment in our audio/visual presentation.
Ngoni and Percussion - Joe Philogene
Electric Guitar, Synth and Vocals - Nick Jackson
Acoustic Guitar and Vocals - Andy Jackson
The lyrics for this song were improvised on the spot, just like the rest of the song. There was a collection of jars sat behind Nick on a shelf, they acted as the launching point for the lyrical wonder that is 'Apparently'.
We decided on a colourful moving image palette to go with this song, and sunflowers. Hopefully a visual feast for your eyes while the music is a treat for your ears. Imagine the smell of beautiful flowers to complete the sensory experience (we are not yet capable of releasing the smell version of our jams)
For the full improv session visit our podcast site and download the 2 hour meditative improvised musical experience. The full version features some wonderful words of wisdom by Ram Dass, it's embedded right below these very words in fact.
This is the title track from Cosmic Bos Improvisation 2: Sunrise Reflections, and the third song in this audio/visual presentation.
Ngoni and Percussion - Joe Philogene
Electric Guitar, Synth and Backing Vocals - Nick Jackson Acoustic Guitar and Vocals - Andy Jackson
Sunrise Reflections lyrics by Andy Jackson
Nothing beats a sunrise
Party up a surprise
Cameras are our new eyes
Ones that never use lies
Changing of perspective
Replace what’s now defective
Of life we be protective
Let’s avalanche collective
Together we have powers
To topple ancient towers
To overthrow in hours
The corner dwelling cowards
But best just to avoid it
Let them sleep in their own shit
We’ll come in for a refit
Once this old horse has bolted
All the steps we’ve counted
And failures we’ve dismounted
Why was it ever doubted?
Nature just gets rerouted
Humans are just a blip
Missing one obvious trick
Harmony with Mother Nature
Doesn’t require legislature
What we take we must replace
There can’t be losers in this race
It’s every planet, species, life form
Winning all the time we’ll reform
A dream that we can wake to
A dream that we can wake to
...
Reflecting on the world near the start of the day can be a healthy way to approach the challenges that the hours are likely to bring your way. Always remember the clouds are there to bring colour and flair to the sky.
Joe leads with a beautiful Ngoni rhythm, which Nick and Andy meander around.
For the visuals we searched for sunrises and epic skylines from around the world, and then over-layed it on us playing.
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The first proper thing after sunrise, we have to start making decisions.
Wow, not sure we made such good decisions there...
Cover for the full album
Ngoni and Percussion - Joe Philogene
Electric Guitar, Synth and Backing Vocals - Nick Jackson
Acoustic Guitar and Vocals - Andy Jackson
Video by Nick Jackson and Andy Jackson
Lyrics - Bad Decisions by Andy Jackson
The teacher is having a breakdown
Technology dulled all the skills
Always on a digital playground
Hormones regulated by pills
It’s just a ba,ba,ba,ba,ba,ba,ba
Mosaic by Abi Jackson
Bad decisions,
It’s a ba,ba,ba,ba,ba,ba,ba
Bad decisions
It’s a natural disaster in progress
Slowly robotising us all
We’re more like an app on an tablet
Rather then a brick in a wall
CHORUS
Actions reduced to just pixels
Emotions switched out for a meme
All the thumbs up on a status
Seduced by the notes on the screen
CHORUS
The doctor is having a break now, she’s been on her feet for a week
While pompous pricks go on a pow-wow, Continue the causing the bleak
CHORUS
- So there you have it, the first full step into the great wide musical world of Cosmic Bos, the sun has risen and we are exploring what there is to offer out in the great wide world.
Joe provides an awesome Ngoni rhythm for Nick and Andy to noodle over, and reflecting on the times in which we now live, the teachers and doctors are given the spotlight for a moment, let's hope we listen to them and don't just go and do some stupid nonsense instead...
Drones galore in this one, coming out of buildings, zooming through forests, over beaches and towns, while the Bos crew try and make semblance out of the chaos gifted us by the World.
Peace be the journey,
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Welcome to the introductory part of our special presentation
Cosmic Bos Improvisation 2 : Sunrise Reflections
We start at the beginning, as everything must, the Time is Now
Cover for Improvisation 2
Sunrise is such a wonderful time of the day,
Time is Now - Cosmic Bos Improvisation
Percussion - Joe Philogene
Electric Guitar & Vocals - Nick Jackson
Acoustic, Synth & Vocals - Andy Jackson
When we begin one of our improvised journeys we have to set the levels of the microphones and things, you know, technical stuff, but the music starts before we can sort out all that. This song is us testing out the recording levels, and it came out alright, so it opens this journey.
Letting the music decide the course of the journey is exciting, and utilising a little bit of editing trickery, we have been able to project sunrises all around us. So our journey begins with Sunrise, the time is now, and our journey will be full of reflections of this opening moment, it's time to come get lost with Cosmic Bos.
Our music makes good meditation music, or just general chilling out, it's relaxing not taxing, thank you for taking the time to explore these awesome creative realms with us, sharing and commenting helps spread the peace and rhythm, we do this for the music.
Check out the full playlist of our improvised musical musings right here courtesy of YouTube (it's this little video site, you might of heard of it)
We here at @Cosmic Bos started a new project very recently, we did a test/pilot from which two videos surfaced (Perplexed and Ride the Waves)
and then went straight to series, because we don't wait around for anyone to tell us what to do, we're our own bos!
Joe Philogene on Ngoni and Percussion
Nick Jackson on Electric Guitar
Andy Jackson on Acoustic Guitar and Vocals
The lyric was made up on the spot
it's just...
Pennies, line the jar
Pennies, travelled from afar
Can, can we, accept trouble in ?! (not sure)
Currency
Currently
Is losing it's meaning, it's losing it's meaning
...
and that's it, it's like a low grade version of Money by Pink Floyd, with less cash registers and far less lyrics.
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Love you all so very much, thank you for visiting us today, we present to you, 2 hours of meditative improvised music with some words of wisdom sprinkled on.
Cosmic Bos Improvisation 1: Soundscapes in the Moment
Electric Guitar, Synths and Backing Vocals - Nick Jackson
Acoustic Guitar and Vocals - Andy Jackson
On the 3rd of April (Easter Saturday) 2021, Joe, Nick and Andy sat down and improvised two hours of music, this podcast is the unedited full set, with some words of wisdom added near the end by the great minds of Terence McKenna, Mark Pesce and Robert Anton Wilson. Designed to take you to a deep cosmic stillness, connecting you into the universe using the ancient art of making stuff up on the spot.
Tracklist:
Currency
Not Babylon or Rome
Like Minded
Perplexed
Metrics of Success
Yarway
Share
Crazy-go-round
Words of Wisdom 1: Terence McKenna and Mark Pesce
Sounding Gap
Words of Wisdom 2: Robert Anton Wilson
The words of wisdom were taken from the Psychedelic Salon podcast, available on all good podcasting sites and well worth a listen if you fancy some deep thinking lectures without improvised music underneath.
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Peace be the journey
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At the beginning of April, around Easter time, Joe Philogene, Nick Jackson and myself (Andy Jackson) met for a day of improvising music. We had previously tested a day of music together which had produced a couple of exciting improvisations (Perplexed and Ride the Waves) from within our experimentations. This led to the full days improvisation, which subsequently produced almost 2 hours of music, which has been segmented up into 11 songs.
Two of these songs have some words of wisdom placed on top, which you shall get to hear soon, but until then please enjoy this first release from Cosmic Bos Improvisation 1: Soundscapes in the Moment - Like Minded.
We had filmed quite a bit of our days improvising, and there has been some lush sunrises and sunsets recently, so merging these two things made sense. Here are the full lyrics to Like Minded.
LIKE MINDED
Be like the flow of the river
like the wind to the bee
And if that doesn’t work
try being more like me
Be smart as a sweetie
Avoid all hefty fees
Although paper does,
Money don’t come from trees
Like a clerk in an office
Or the girl out to sea
Lonely, if only
They could be here with me
Like rust in the workings
Like sun bleached tapestry
Forgot to remember
What a memory could be
Like radio silence on the TV
Like visual radioactivity
The passive aggression
And stark futility
Remember to always forget
You're worth more then you'll ever get
Remember to always forget
Your meal still isn’t ready yet
I wrote these while sitting on the beach and watching the world go by, the day before we did the recording session. Just a little fun fact for you there.
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We will drop a similar video to this one for the song 'Not Babylon or Rome' in the next couple of days, and the full album and podcast version will be along on Saturday 1st May, Hooray!
Here for you is the second improvised song from our improvised pilot session for our new upcoming show Cosmic Bos Improvisation podcast.
A more stripped back and mantra like jam action from your Cosmic Bos then you maybe use to.
Ride the Waves is the second song from our test session, the first being 'Perplexed'. We also recorded a bunch of other stuff on that day, but that's for our ears only (at least until we become mega famous and have special anthologies made about us, and someone unearths from the iCloud the lost songs from the pilot session of the worlds most celebrated podcast)
On Saturday 3rd April 2021 we recorded the first full episode of our improvisation podcast, (take note of the date time travellers) currently untitled, still got a bit of time to come up with a clever title. It was an amazing session, we streamed the middle part of it live on instagram and facebook and sessions all at the same time.
In fact, here it is embedded from facebook
The 5 songs from this live jam will turn up on the improvisation podcast I mentioned earlier in this blog, we have 3 songs from the session we did before the live bit, and 3 songs/bits from the session we did straight after this stream. But these 5 songs exist for you here not too dissimilar to how they will turn up in the future on our first fully improvised album (currently still untitled, I had not managed to come up with a title since starting writing this blog). The 5 songs here are:
Perplexed
Metrics of Success
Yarway
Share
Crazy-Go-Round
Yarway and Crazy-Go-Round can be found on Cosmic Bos Improv-Revisation Episode 7: On Yarway, these versions here are the improvised versions.
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We have an April podcast lined up that is a bit different from what we've done before, it's called 'A Mike Schur thing' where Nick and Andy are going to chat about all things Mike Schur created and related, it should be fun, at least for us it will be, for you, hopefully too.
New horizons are horizoning, improvisation sessions hidden within practices, all good stuff.
We here at Cosmic Bos have been doing some self reflecting, as is customary during lockdown times, and conclusions have been reached about some changes that need to take place. No longer having a master producer has put more onus on us mere musician types to step up to the plate and learn more production skills...we will do our best.
So first of the new deals is this improvisation we did with Joe Philogene, Perplexed
Andy, Nick and Joe had an afternoon of musical whimsy and practice, which led to a handful of purely improvised songs, Perplexed being one of them. We had been having a moment outside where we were discussing how awesome Radiohead are, we even listened to an amazing Acapella version of 15 Steps, so we were feeling rather Thom Yorke inspired when we sat down to jam it out.
This is the leading inspiration for the new show we will launch soon called 'Cosmic Bos Improvisation', it's improvised and then not revised, it's pure improvisation to its core, dropped notes and all. Coming soon in a big way to a podcast page near you.
We have also been practicing up our live skills ready for when the world realises that it needs live music again to help fill the void of virus fear. We have been using an up and coming streaming service called Sessions.
We are doing our practices there, so come along and join our crew.
There is still plenty of Improv-Revisation shenanigans to come, it has not been abandoned, we just have some other things to attend to at this moment.
Our next months podcast will be an experimental new format which we are currently calling 'It's a Mike Schur thing' - where Nick and Andy will discuss their love of all things Mike Schur (creator of Parks and Recreation, Brooklyn99 and The Good Place), looking forward to trying something new.
Until then though, how about you hang around and check out some of our other creative endeavours
the world is weird, things are weird, but we can still cover songs and have fun doing it. But, if you can tolerate this, then your children will be next, so send them the link to watch the video.
Here is the stuff I wrote on YouTube under this video
If You Tolerate This Your Children Will Be Next - Manic Street Preachers - Cosmic Bos Acoustic Cover #5
Andy and Nick take on the mighty Manic Street Preachers song with their acoustical funliness, hopefully pushing the very important message of this song into peoples earholes, we all need to stand up for ourselves, and the more we put up with being treated like scum, the more we tell our children that this is acceptable behaviour.
Power is always with the people, the illusion it isn't is also always with the people. Conspiracies and Governments both push the same agenda, the belief that a collection of slightly evolved primates can run and control everything for over 7 Billion other primates. The quicker we realise that no one is any better then anyone else and we are all just standing at a point in our existence where we can choose to usher in the change we want to see, or we can allow the lunatics to tell us what to do and keep this asylum party going until it literally runs out of fuel and claps out on the side of the road.
So yeah, acoustic covers, that's what you actually came here for, and this one if a personal favourite of Nick and Andy.
So Radiohead are a pretty good band, probably one of our favourites over here at Cosmic Bos, we had the amazing fortune to go and see them live in a forest in Germany when they were touring In Rainbows, it is without a doubt one of the 5 best gigs we've ever been to, and, well, if you've ever seen Radiohead live, then you know what we're talking about.
So Karma Police by Radiohead, we did an acoustic cover of it, and it's here, with an introduction by Theodore Jackson
Such fun indeed, hope you enjoyed that, new one coming very soon
We also have a podcast special interview with ourselves that we did, it's coming this month for sure.
