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 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?

I wrote a song a week for a year - this is my journey with the music weeklies challenge August 2022 to August 2023

 Hello, my name is Andy Jackson, and I am one half of Cosmic Bos, with my brother Nick Jackson being the other half (we aren't married to each other, we are married, but to our respective lady partners). We make music, lots of it, and host a monthly music challenge podcast called the Monthly Music Challenge with Cosmic Bos. 

I made a behind the scenes video of how I make a song for the music weeklies challenges, to celebrate reaching a full year of making a song a week. 52 songs baby!

And here is the finished product, after just a few hours from concept to lyric video

Let's flashback to where this all began.

So in the Summer of 2022, I was introduced to the Music Weeklies challenges on X (formerly Twitter) by a jolly good friend Trench Gun. The basic premise of music weeklies is to make a song or piece of music in a week around a hashtag. The week I was introduced to it, the hashtag was #NotAFan.

Full playlist of the 52 songs (plus a few other alternative versions of some of them) here

The first handful that I made I did using tiktok filters, and just my acoustic guitar and voice. In fact, quite a few of them were like that to begin with. It would be my 5th week of doing it that the first shift happened, the hashtag was Spaceship, and I love writing about space, so I wrote 'Spaceship Earth'

This one was good, not as throw away as the handful before it, the song was solid, had a unique feel to it and could easily take an upgrade, which is what happened (see video above) when it was picked for inclusion on our Virtual Normality 2 EP. Along with Morning Coffee, Burning Rings of Power and Nun in a Kayak. The list stayed pretty much acoustic only up until 14, where Plum and Dates was about time signatures and beats so I had to change my tactic a little. This influenced the next set to, making them take on a slightly bigger feel.

For Christmas I received an interface which allowed me to properly record guitar and synths and vocals like the pro's do it. So the songs started to change, getting much bigger, with layers and layers. Nick and I also launched the Monthly Music Challenge in conjunction with the Music Weeklies peeps.

From songs 23 to 52 I had the interface and the MMC to think about, so the songs drastically changed, becoming full on proper big things. Nude Beginnings onward, no acoustic tracks, all bigger affairs.

With the monthly challenge breaking things up into nice EP sized nuggets, the songs were getting a proper release on all platforms. We put them out on band camp and all the other places too.

Time marched on, songs kept coming week after week.

Until, before I knew it I was getting ready to write my year anniversary song!

I did a busking style set to celebrate my achievement, and here it is for you

It'a been a wild and crazy fun year of music making, in addition to the 52 songs of the music weeklies challenge, Nick and I worked with Monochrome Motif records on 'Poseidon's Realm', and teamed up with Andrew Hartshorn and Al Warren to form the supergroup Hartshorn, Jackson, Jackson and Warren. 

Our debut album came out in August 2023. Go buy it.

2023 has been so musical it's close to being labelled on Broadway! with still more to come before the year is done. I am stepping back from doing a song a week now, to focus on the other projects that we have going on with Cosmic Bos. There are still 3 episodes of the Monthly Music Challenge year 1 to go, and then we have the end of year celebration to plan (which Spoiler Alert! We are already planning)

Thanks so much for spending time with us, you da best!

Peace and infinite love

Andy from Cosmic Bos

Monthly Music Challenge with Cosmic Bos Podcast - 1.7 - Mother Earth

 Hello friends,

I do apologise for the lateness of this blog, the episode has been out for quite some time, but life has been busy and the blog got forgot, soz.

Monthly Music Challenge with Cosmic Bos

Episode 1.7 - Mother Earth

Join Nick and Andy (Cosmic Bos) as we explore the musical interpretations created for our wonderful Mother Earth by some of the most talented musicians in the whole world. What did we all choose to say about Gaia, the great ball on which we all reside ? Well you are in for a treat friends, as all this music has been environmentally sourced, has an extremely low carbon footprint and has travelled from around our great planet without clocking in any airmiles (email miles don't count).

Prepare to give praise to Gaia, Mother Earth, the big Blue & Green, with the musical stylings of Mobidextrous, Andrew Hartshorn, Hellwaddler, Trench Gun, Aye Nevo, Man of Arun, TexMex Shaman, Taylor Lidstone, A Sea Warren, Notehead, JPeck, Trommelfell.MB and your idiotic hosts Cosmic Bos with special guests Joe Philogene and Dayne Howcroft.

Cosmic Bos put out their songs on an EP, which coincidently always has the same title as the coresponding episode of the Monthly Music Challenge. It will be available everywhere, but on bandcamp it will be purchasable. You can also pick up singles, twingles, EPs and Albums by most of the great artists featured in this episode. Please check them all out and share the musical connections.

The next theme for MMC 1.8 is Dreams #Dreams 

Please send your mp3's with a little write up about the song to cosmicbos@gmail.com 

If you are a first time submitter please send a bio about yourself too, otherwise Nick and Andy will make something up and it will likely be very silly, music is a serious business and Cosmic Bos's style of podcast most certainly isn't serious.

You have until the 8th September 2023 to get your Dreams songs in, as well as any late submissions for the previous themes. (previous themes are 1. New Beginnings, 2. Escape, 3. Ignorance, 4. Winning, 5. Razzmajazz, 6. Artificial Intelligence and now 7. Mother Earth)

Good luck! Get your dreamy brain on and make up a song.

Please take the time to comment, follow all the amazing artists featured on their socials, likes, shares, subscriptions and comments are the bread and butter of the indie music scene, please distribute them generously.

Here is the full track list for the episode, all tracks are on the theme of Mother Earth (except for the 'late sub' found near the end of the episode)

1. Earth's Children - Cosmic Bos ft. Joe Philogene & Dayne Howcroft
2. Mother/Earth - Mobidextrous
3. Orbit - Faith - Mobidextrous
4. Terra Mater - Andrew Hartshorn
5. Gaia's Moonshine Merriment - Hellwaddler
6. Gaeacide - Trench Gun
7. A Price to be Paid - Aye Nevo
8. Circles in the Crops - Cosmic Bos
9. Earthy - Mobidextrous
10. Back to Nature (Dub version) - Mobidextrous
11. The Assassination of Mother Earth - Man of Arun
12. Poo Poo Kickin' & Toad Lickin' - TexMex Shaman
13. Mother Nature - Taylor Lidstone
14. So Many Songs for You - A Sea Warren
15. Salt on the Speakers - Cosmic Bos
16. Evil Earth - Notehead
17. They Lied to Me - J Peck
18. Ann Miller - Trench Gun
19. She Won't Let you Fly - Hellwaddler
20. Gaia - Mobidextrous
21. On Some Nights - Mobidextrous
22. (LATE SUB) Flowers - Trommelfell.MB
23. Milked it - Cosmic Bos

Thanks for listening, please like, share and subscribe to all the amazing artists featured in the MMC.

Big Outergalactic shoutout to the newbies that joined this month, Taylor Lidstone, Aye Nevo and Trommelfell.MB - you all are amazeballs and we have musical cabins for all of you on the Monthly Music Challenger astral submarine thing we made up a bunch of episodes ago.

So quick reminder, the next theme is Dreams

Here's the YouTube link to the podcast episode, should you prefer that

Peace and infinite love

Cosmic Bos

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

Idiots (weeklies version) by Cosmic Bos for the #Ignorance Monthly Music Challenge

 Hello friends,

Check out Idiots (weeklies version) by Cosmic Bos

And here's the YouTube video link if you wish to see Andy doing his Beavis and Butt-head impression

We are deep into Monthly Music Challenge 1.3 - Ignorance, with several submissions already received it is shaping up to be one hell of a show I'm telling you. Our entry (Cosmic Bos) for the #Ignorance challenge is 'Idiots', the version you hear here is the version we put together for the Music Weeklies challenge, they only give you one week to make your song, where as here at Monthly Music Challenge we give you the added bonus time of One Whole Calendar month to make your song. 

It's very exciting, you should come get involved, here is the link to the podcast itself, please go and subscribe to it where ever you do your podcasting (it should be there, just search Monthly Music Challenge) or direct link HERE (OFFICIAL PODCAST PAGE)

Our last episode MMC 1.2 - Escape was an absolute blast and a half, check it out!

Thanks for the review Scowsh

Big thanks to New Music Saturday for spinning our weeklies version of Idiots, and also big thanks for crediting us on TexMex Shamans new song, alas, we had nothing to do with it's creation, it was prompted by the Monthly Music Challenge with Cosmic Bos, we don't deserve any of the credit. Spoiler Alert! we've had a late submission for Escape, by the awesome TexMex Shaman, we will spin it on the next
episode in a new segment we will probably call Late Subs, or something equally juvenile knowing us.

In other news, the Lights and Lines Album in a Month competition is returning in May, hosted once again by the enigmatic Mike5, Cosmic Bos will be taking part this year, but in a bit of a different way from last year. More to come on that for sure.

Also, also, while we are doing news, the last hashtag by Music Weeklies was #UpsideDown and I (Andy) made a little song for it, as is my songwriting duty, and here it is for you, on the end of this blog, it's called Down for the Upside

Thanks for stopping by, love ya

Peace and infinite love

Cosmic Bos

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

But What Does Freedom Mean? New Demo song by Cosmic Bos for the #Freedom music weeklies challenge

 Hello friends,

But What Does Freedom Mean? By Cosmic Bos   

Made for the Music weeklies  #freedom challenge

 I went with a serious tone this time, choosing to ponder the question

 what does freedom mean?

 Big shout outs to the legends Russell Brand and Duncan Truffles for being amazing question askers and journeyers through the mind, love you both infinitely 

 Video version on youtube https://youtu.be/sz8znkctOTY 

Subscribe to our podcast https://cosmicbos.libsyn.com

You can still submit #Escape songs to Cosmic Bos for Monthly Music Challenge 1.2, you can also submit #Freedom songs too, until the 3rd of March 2023

send your mp3s to cosmicbos@gmail.com for inclusion in the podcast, your songs have to be on the themes of the month, that's the requirement for potential inclusion. This month already has quite a few more submissions then last month did, excited to explore everyones take on the Escape theme.

Anyway, have a wonderful weekend, 

Peace and infinite love

Cosmic Bos

Make Good Our Escape - Weeklies Version by Cosmic Bos for the #Escape Monthly Music Challenge

 Hello friends,

The hashtag for MMC 1.2 has been out for a week, and #Escape has produced some wonderful pieces for the Music Weeklies challenge, go to Twitter to check them out, in a bit, first off, check out Cosmic Bos's entry to the weekly

So the Monthly Music Challenge is well on it's way now, into the second hashtag (#Escape if you weren't aware), and the challenge is coming to a close for the music makers of the Music Weeklies, there has been some excellent submissions to the MMC from that bunch (looking at you Trench Gun), and all you other music makers that need a bit more time, you still have until the 3rd March to submit your songs to the podcast.

As for this song, Make Good Our Escape (weeklies version), Nick and I (Andy) worked out some guitar at the weekend, I then recorded a musical outline (using just 3 guitars), put some drum loops in, wrote the lyric, sung the lyric, released the video to the music weeklies world. 

The song is about being ready to escape when things go bad, and getting out together, not leaving anyone behind. For all the crazy in the world, it's not a problem if we can make good our escape.

Please like, share and subscribe Monthly Music Challenge with Cosmic Bos

And send your Escape songs to us before the 3rd of March 2023.

Here is the YouTube video version - extracted from Tiktok 

Peace and infinite love

Cosmic Bos

https://linktr.ee/cosmicbos 

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.

One Pixel at a Time (Demo) by Cosmic Bos for the Music Weeklies #Pixels Music Challenge

 Hello NPC's,

As the Monthly Music Challenge is now underway, I (Andy) have turned my attention back to the wonderful world of Music Weeklies and their extra hashtags for the month. Nick is busy working on Nude Beginnings for our Monthly submission (see other blogs on this page for details), while I have been having some fun with some synthesisers.

I present to you, my submission for #Pixels - One Pixel at a Time 

This was a fun one to make, neglecting the guitar in favour of pure synthetic sound, something a singer/songwriter has trouble doing, but it can be a refreshing change of pace, and since we are in New Beginnings January it seemed appropriate to go all in on something different.

The submissions have been coming in for the Monthly Music Challenge, you still have a bit of time if you wanted to get in on the fun from the start. #NewBeginnings - make a song up around that theme, go, get it done and then send it to Cosmic Bos and they will spin it on their podcast. You have till the 3rd of Feb 2023 to get them in for this hashtag, next months tag will be revealed on the 3rd Feb in the evening.

Right, have a wonderful week you lovely people,

Back to the musical grindstone for me

Peace and infinite love

Andy (Cosmic Bos)

Check out our link tree for lots of our handy links

https://linktr.ee/cosmicbos

Also, here's the intro episode to the Monthly Music Challenge should you wish to listen here

Monthly Music Challenge #MMC1 with Cosmic Bos - Introduction

 Hello wonderful you,

Welcome to the blog where the Monthly Music Challenge takes place, this is the introduction 

Welcome to the Monthly Music Challenge with @CosmicBos podcast

This is the introduction episode, laying out how it's going to go down for the rest of the year.

Let Nick and Andy (Cosmic Bos) be your guides through the wonderful world of music creation, working with the sublime musicians of Music Weeklies @MusicWeeklies CB will be making a new song every week in line with their rules, but on the side CB will be offering up the chance for music made within the month (leaning heavily on the first hashtag of each month) to be played on this podcast, and get comments from Nick and Andy.

Podcast play (PP) will not be reserved exclusively for the first hashtag (which btw is #NewBeginnings), and any of Music Weeklies hashtags generated in the given month are viable for PP, please send your mp3's (not WAVs, our inbox will die) to cosmicbos@gmail.com with the hashtag in the subject line, and a bit of info about yourself so we can give you the promo in the podcast that you deserve.

We won't be playing any material that doesn't meet the Music Weeklies guidelines or our Monthly Music Challenge ones either, to get airplay and PP for such songs you should go check out the New Music Saturdays guys (they have a podcast of their show too, check it out).

So, get to work lovely musicians, songwriters, audio creatives 

You have until the 3rd of Feb (2023) to submit for the January hashtags, of which the first one (and the one you can have a month to work on) is #NewBeginnings 

Check back on Twitter on the 13th, 20th and 27th of Jan to find out the other three hashtags that we will accept PP on.

This should be fun, we can't wait to hear from you

Any questions please come find us on Twitter @CosmicBos where we will attempt to answer them (SPOILER ALERT! we might not be able to)

Peace and infinite love

Cosmic Bos

Here's the Youtube link to the podcast episode.

https://linktr.ee/cosmicbos

Check out our band camp for musical purchases

https://cosmicbos.bandcamp.com/album/virtual-normality-2

Songs found on this introduction episode are all by Cosmic Bos

1. The Drunky Song (for #Drunk)
2. You Find Out When You Die (for #Afterlife)
3. Morning Coffee acoustic (for #MorningCoffee)
4. Morning Coffee Full Blend version (from Virtual Normality 2)

Links for all of these can be found on our YouTube page

Cosmic Bos YouTube Channel

Please like, share and subscribe, we love you

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  

NUN in a KAYAK - Cosmic Bos (Official Lyric video) - A Palindrome song

 Hello friends,

https://linktr.ee/cosmicbos - check out our link tree for all your Cosmic Bos needs. 

You are here for the Nun though right? Well here you go.

NUN in a KAYAK - From Cosmic Bos Virtual Normality 2 EP

Findable on Bandcamp right here right now

Nun in a Kayak was originally written for the Music Weeklies hashtag challenge on Twitter, for the hashtag Palinloop, or Palindrome. The song is full of Palindromes, it hasn't got all of the ones in existence, because I couldn't work out how to get a Racecar into the story without ruining the calm imagery of a Nun in a Kayak.

The central song on our new EP, and one we did live at our annual gig (but the video isn't quite up to scratch so you won't get to see it), it will get another airing later this year on Bos Live #2 (2022) - oh yeah, SPOILER ALERT! We are doing another Live album. (in fact, it's already recorded, just needs some Nick tweaking magic) which we are planning to drop on Christmas Day (25th of December for any non-Crizzies). 

We also have our Best of Season 4, which, Spoiler Alert, contains this Nun and Kayak based song, we considered it one of the best of the year. That will be with you even sooner than the aforementioned Spoiled Live album, around the 10th of December we recon. Just got some eyes to dot and some teas to cross. It has been a great year, and we look forward to staring up our own bumholes and talking about how amazing we are, but also all the actual amazing people we got to work with this year. Spoiler Alert! it's been the best year of Bos yet.

So, that's where we's at. A couple more videos to come before the year is done, until then, let's have some cake, or wine, or both, or neither, whatever you want, have it.

If you like your videos Tubed up for you, then here is the handy Bos embedded YouTube link 

Please like, share and subscribe to us

Peace and infinite wine

Cosmic Bos

Virtual Normality 2 - Cosmic Bos Music Podcast Special Presentation

 Hello fellow passenger on Spaceship Earth,

Welcome to the blog that goes with the podcast about Cosmic Bos's new EP Virtual Normality 2

 Here's a linktree you can take shelter under https://linktr.ee/cosmicbos

You have reached the hub of the Cosmic Bos multiverse and begin your journey down the second of our Virtual Normality tours. Last time, we explored Space with Babies, chilled out, stayed inside and then ended with a birth. 

So a year later, Cosmic Bos have decided to take you on a different journey. For this year (2022) has been an exploration of songwriting, in it's many varied forms, as well as Cosmic Bos collaborating with other types of musicians to explore music further.

Back in August '22, Andy started taking part in a weekly music challenge that is run primary from Twitter, where each week a hashtag is set and you have one week to make an original piece of music on theme (big thanks to Trench Gun for hooking us in).

To start with Andy didn't take it very seriously, but a few weeks in it was becoming exciting trying to write the best song possible within the very loose restrictions.

So play along with the episode and try and Guess the Hashtag to 4 of the songs, and be WOW'ed by False Promises (Cosmic Bos Mix) by Andrew Hartshorn ft. Natalie Williams Calhoun. The move towards orchestration is a spoiler alert for next year.

Amazing artwork by Gecko

Full track listing for Virtual Normality 2

1. Morning Coffee 
2. Burning Rings of Power 
3. Nun in a Kayak 
4. False Promises (Cosmic Bos Mix) - Andrew Hartshorn ft. Natalie Williams Calhoun 
5. Spaceship Earth

So thanks for checking out our podcast

Please like, share and subscribe

And ratings and comments on your favoured podcasting platform really helps us out, so please consider it. Thanks 

We will do a proper blog about our live shenanigans once all the videos from the festival have been released, but it was a banging day for sure, and so nice to get to play some of these songs in front of an audience.

Here's our link tree for all your Cosmic Bos needs (where if you snoop you can find some of the aforementioned live footage already)

 https://linktr.ee/cosmicbos

You can also find the album on Bandcamp right here

https://cosmicbos.bandcamp.com/album/virtual-normality-2

Here is the youtube link too

Peace and infinite love

Cosmic Bos

https://linktr.ee/cosmicbos

Morning Coffee by Cosmic Bos - from our new EP Virtual Normality 2

 Good morning wherever you are,

First thing in the mourning I always turn to the bean for a smooth kickstarter blend to get the day going...

Here's a lyric video to illustrate that point. it's from our podcast which you can find on our link tree here

https://linktr.ee/cosmicbos

Taken from our new EP Virtual Normality 2 which you can find on bandcamp here https://cosmicbos.bandcamp.com/album/virtual-normality-2

Amazing cover art by Gecko

Originally written as part of the Music Weeklies Hashtag challenge on Twitter, (the hashtag being #MorningCoffee) I (Andy) felt pretty confident that Nick could help me turn this acoustic little ditty into a full blown morning banger, which he most certainly did.

The first of 4 hashtag challenge songs on the EP, as well as a special remix by Cosmic Bos of the awesome False Promises by Andrew Hartshorn (ft. Natalie Williams Calhoun) with a vocal by Cosmic Bos and some extra instrumentation too.

Here's the Youtube version

And the link to the whole darn record on the tube.

Full podcast breakdown of the EP coming sooner than soon.

Have a day everyone, love you lots

Peace and infinite love (see! told you I loved ya lots)

Cosmic Bos

Virtual Normality 2 - Cosmic Bos New EP OUT NOW!

 Hello fellow traveller on Spaceship Earth,

Welcome to the blog, here you will find music by Cosmic Bos

Released 11/11/22 was Virtual Normality 2 - Cosmic Bos's new 5 track EP

Purchasable from the very link above

5 new songs, 4 of which come from the Music Weeklies Hashtag challenge on Twitter, 1 which is a Cosmic Bos mix of a phenomenal song by Andrew Hartshorn. 

Last year we made Virtual Normality as a statement of where we intended to take Cosmic Bos in the future, and as a template for what we have done this year (2022) it worked out nicely, plus it had an awesome cover done by iamGecko. 

So as we reach the ending of 2022 we wanted to honour where our direction seems to be going, with the tail end of '22 having been music challenge time (much like the first half of the year was), and developing deeper musical connections with fellow artists, and becoming more involved in the musical community on the interweb thanks to The Album Writing Club and Music Weeklies, as well as Nick having another baby (Outer Space Jazz) and Theo growing up fast (Space Baby Classic), as well as the world crumbling apart around us all, it's seemed only prudent to do a sequel to Virtual Normality. 

So we tweaked the colours of the cover, added a big 2 and slapped 5 songs on it just like the first. 

Here's the YouTube playlist embedded - please like, share and subscribe if you are a tuber

And it's all over Spotify and other online music prisons

Nick and I (Andy) will do a proper podcast to go along with the album, with us talking all about the tracks, but we've had to postpone it's recording so we can take part in the Off the Records Music Festival at the Brunswick in Hove tomorrow (12th November), hopefully we'll get a bit of video footage to share with you from it.

After the podcast for VN2 we will look to close the year off with a Best of (as is now tradition) and a Live acoustic album of songs from the year.

We are deep in planning for next year too, going to revamp the podcast a bit, give it a new focus, more to follow.

Morning Coffee video to follow too

Thanks for being awesome

Peace and infinite air miles

Cosmic Bos

NUN in a KAYAK by Cosmic Bos (Music Weeklies #Palinloop Challenge song - normal and PCP versions)

 Hello friends,

I  have been taking part in the Music Weeklies Challenges on Twitter, and they are lots of fun, allowing me to stretch my writing muscles into some interesting places.

It is the 4 year anniversary of Music Weeklies Challenges, and they are doing exciting anniversary based things all month. Check out there website here https://www.musicweeklieschallenge.com 

So the challenge for the 1st week of October is #Palinloop - write something that involves palindromes and loops in some way.

Here's what I did - NUN in a KAYAK

And here is the speedy version - NUN in a KAYAK on PCP

I have really enjoyed making these songs, and I've done 8 of them now, and 4 of them are currently being remade by Nick and myself to form our next release - Virtual Normality 2. Watch this space for more on that!

Please go check out the Music Weeklies chaps, they are lots of fun and a great community for musicians to interact and get some genuine feedback on your work. https://www.musicweeklieschallenge.com

Peace and infinite love

Andy (Cosmic Bos)

Spaceship Earth - Cosmic Bos New Song - both versions in one blog - part of the Music Weeklies Challenge for #Spaceship

 Hello dear you,

How's it going? Well I hope.

Orange Moon rising over Spaceship Earth

So I (Andy) have been taking part in a fun weekly musical challenge on Twitter, probably should have blogged about it ages ago, but I've been busy and lazy. Plus the blog is more for the work I do with Nick on Cosmic Bos, and that is still flowing. The summer of Bos has a couple more weeks in it, with Episode 5 of our special presentation podcast - Making of an Album coming on the 24th of this month, a video for 'Here's Tom with the Weather' featuring Bill Hicks coming out on the 23rd, and a video for Patient Mystery dropping on the 16th (probably out by the time you read this). It's a busy end to a busy Summer for Cosmic Bos.

You probably didn't click on this blog for the ramblings of a musician, you wanted to hear the Spaceship Earth song that is teased in the title, and most likely you wouldn't have even read the bit above or this bit either and just skipped straight to the goods, and I don't blame you, and if you have been foolish enough to waste time reading this bit then I commend you for your dedication to the written word in this age of image based entertainment. Long live the text!

Spaceship Earth - Music Weeklies Challenge Song #Spaceship

Version 1

This was the first version I recorded on Tiktok, the other version was recorded on Tiktok as well, just in case you were wondering.

Version 2

Version 2 took longer to make because of putting all the lyrics on the screen. 

Check out other things related to the Twitter awesomeness of Music Weeklies Challenges, and I will get round to blogging about it better in the future, I might even go back and blog about the 4 other ones I did over the summer, who knows?

Peace and infinite love

Andy (Cosmic Bos)