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

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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

Barbenheimer - Hartshorn, Jackson, Jackson & Warren (New Single OUT NOW!)

 Hello Barbie boys and girls,

The partners of Hartshorn, Jackson, Jackson & Warren have just released a new single, 'Barbenheimer'

You can purchase this fine product on bandcamp here from the handy embedded link.

You can also find the song on Spotify and all other streaming sites

Barbenheimer was born from a song that Andrew Hartshorn had originally written for his Monthly Music Challenge album, it was his Mother Earth entry called 'Terra Mater'. He had floated the idea of expanding the song to be a Hartshorn, Jackson, Jackson & Warren track, and once the outline existed, it wasn't too long before Andy Jackson had written the lyric, Nick Jackson had recorded some Bass and accent guitar, and Al Warren had added some Brass, and Barbenheimer was born.

Given the fact that the video department of HJJ&W had yet to provide any promotional video material for the partners, it only seemed right that they pulled out all the stops to provide something special for the single that followed their debut album 'Sound Investments' which you can still purchase to this very day.

Please leave us comments and subscribe to our work all over the internet, your support means the world to us.

Thank you for your time,

Peace and infinite love

Cosmic Bos

Monthly Music Challenge MMC 1.8 - Dreams

 Hello friends,

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

This is Episode 1.8 Dreams

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Send your mp3's with a little write up about the song (and a bio about yourself if you haven't been on the show already) to cosmicbos@gmail.com 

The EP bandcamp alternative cover

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

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

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

Here is the full MMC 1.8 Dreams tracklist:

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

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

Peace and infinite love

Cosmic Bos

P.S - Here's our lyric video for our song Could This All Be A Dream?

Graphic designed by Only The Host, what a total legend! Go check him out now.

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 - MMC 1.6 - Artificial Intelligence

 Welcome human and bot alike,

You have reached the blog of the Monthly Music Challenge, and this particular entry refers to the 6th outing of the MMC in it's first year...embedding player now...

Episode 1.6 - Artificial Intelligence

Join Nick and Andy (Cosmic Bos) as we explore the musical side of artificial intelligence, what can we learn from our robotic offspring? Will they ultimately rise up and destroy us all? Can we find a way to live in harmony? All these important questions and more will not be answered here, this is a music challenge podcast, with a couple of idiots in the hosting chairs, if you want deep philosophical discussions on A.I then please check out other more informed podcasts, if, however, you want lots of musical explorations of the theme, ranging from Electropop to Orchestral to Heavy Metal, then you are in the right place. Welcome.

We have a humdinger of an episode for you this month, with some Beeeeeeeeautiful songs by MMC regulars like Andrew Hartshorn, TexMex Shaman, Tonal Drift, Hellwaddler, Notehead, A Sea Warren, Man of Arun, Scowsh Molosh, Peter Hawkey, Mobidextrous and Trench Gun as well as 3 exceptional new additions from Natalie Williams Calhoun, Voltage Poetry Project and JPeck.

Outergalactic shoutout to the wonderful peeps of Music Weeklies, which continues to supply the MMC with some of the most exciting musicians working in the world today, we love you guys 

The next hashtag (for MMC 1.7) is Mother Earth #MotherEarth

You have until the 4th August 2023 to get your songs about the Earth into us for inclusion in the main section of the show, alternatively, you can still submit songs based on the previous 6 themes to be included in our Late Subs section. (Previous themes 1. New Beginnings, 2. Escape, 3. Ignorance, 4. Winning, 5. Razzmajazz and now 6. Artificial Intelligence). Send an Mp3 and a write up about your song, along with a bio (for new subs) to cosmicbos@gmail.com 

Please take the time to comment, follow all the amazing artists featured, like, share and subscribe

Without further ado, here is the full tracklist for the episode:

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE songs

1. There's No A.I in Team - Cosmic Bos @CosmicBos 
2. Clouds Dissolve - TexMex Shaman & Tea R Sea 
3. Talos - Andrew Hartshorn
4. Techno Sapience - Tonal Drift
5. Silent Rebellion - Hellwaddler @Hellwaddler
6. A.I God - Notehead
7. Art's Official Intelligence - ASeaWarren @aseawarren
8. Dichotomy - Natalie Williams Calhoun
9. Uncanny Valley - Man of Arun @ManofArun
10. Era Oeuvre - Voltage Poetry Project
11. Ghost in the Machine - jpeck

There you have it, a whole heap of very real intelligence taking on the artificial world and very clearly coming out on top (for now). Exceptional work all, and a huge welcome to the newbies Natalie Williams Calhoun (NWC!), Voltage Poetry Project (VPP!), jpeck (JPC!) and Tea R Sea (slipping in on the TexMex track), thank you so much for contributing, we wish you a long and musicially rewarding stay on the MMChallenger. Truly wonderful stuff.

There was also a few other hashtags from the music weeklies peoples that produced some interesting songs this month. Firstly there was a MimicAGame challenge which produced some stunning interpretations of classic VGM (Go check out the Music Weeklies site or twitter or discord), we present one of these tracks by our good friends.

12. La Cosa En El Umbral - Trench Gun

As Cosmic Bos are a little out of the gaming loop we took the opportunity to revisit a song from over 10 years ago, and slipped out this little gem.

13. Money Zombies - Cosmic Bos

This challenge was followed up by Bittersweet

14. Bittersweet - Peter Hawkey @peter_hawkey
15. Bittersweet - Cosmic Bos

Then to mix things up a bit, we did early Late Subs:

16. Hummingbird - TexMex Shaman & Stonerjazz (Razzmajazz)
17. Save the Bees - Trench Gun (MiniMe)

Cheeky little newbie sneaking in there, big shout out to Jeff aka Stonerjazz for your exceptional work with TexMex. Right back on the hashtag train for ComingOut and Smart

18. Third Eye Pride - Cosmic Bos
19. Smart - Scowsh Molosh @scowsh
20. Smart - Tonal Drift
21. Watch Your Six - Mobidextrous
22. Get a Little Bit Smarter Everyday - Cosmic Bos

As is tradition now, Cosmic Bos put all our songs onto a handy EP which can be purchased from Bandcamp https://cosmicbos.bandcamp.com/album/mmc-16-artificial-intelligence

So quick reminder, the next theme is Mother Earth and you have till the 4th August 2023.

Also, we have finally done the deed and set up a Discord server, come join us there 

Before the next episode we will be doing a special presentation for the Hartshorn, Jackson, Jackson and Warren album 'Sound Investments', which will be available on CD and Bandcamp on the 4th August from Monochrome Motif Records, we are all really excited to share our Business themed album with you all, Spoiler Alert! it's pretty good.

Here is the youtube playlist of the podcast 

Peace and infinite robot love

Cosmic Bos

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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