Monthly Music Challenge with Cosmic Bos Cosmic Bos: Nick and Andy Jackson

Welcome to the Extra part of the Monthly Music Challenge 2.3 Intergalactic episode.
Join Andy and Nick (Cosmic Bos) as they make ammends for a rather massive faux par on their part, missing off a song from the list.
So firstly, a huge Sorry to Taylor Lidstone, Peoples Choice Award Winning artist and utter legend, Taylor, your Intergalactic song is amazeballs! We didn't miss it off of the list because it didn't fit the theme, we missed it off because Big Mic has been moving all the emails about from 6 years in the future. Why he was ever given time manipulation powers will never make sense.
Please enjoy this extra add on part of Monthly Music Challenge 2.3 Intergalactic episode, containing the amazing Taylor Lidstone song 'Don't Go Without Me', as well as the Late Sub song 'Interstella' by Smokin' Cola, and a respin of Cosmic Bos Space Babies 2 (Intergalactic Super Fantastic Imagination Tactic)
Extra Episode tracklist:
1. Taylor Lidstone - Don't Go Without Me 2. Smokin' Cola - Interstella 3. Cosmic Bos - Space Babies 2 Vote for your favourite Intergalactic track in the peoples choice poll here Peoples Choice Poll MMC 2.3 Intergalactic
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P.S - The theme for MMC 2.4 is Animals, and you have until the 3rd May 2024 to get your songs into us for inclusion, or maybe we will miss it and have to do another extra podcast next month, who knows? Big Mic does but he isn't saying.

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

This episode is MMC 2.3 - Intergalactic.
The third theme for 2024, was Intergalactic, and fellow humans, you are in for an out of this world experience right here on this very podcast, that's right, we are space bound, with the help of 19 other majestic musical wonders from around the globe, we will explore the sonic intergalactic highways and hear things we can only have dreamed of imagining, let's not waste any more time and climb aboard the MMC Challenger, the rocket/submarine/train that Cosmic Bos pilot (kind of) around the creative cosmic multiverse and get all space musicified.
Your hosts are Cosmic Bos, Nick and Andy Jackson, brothers from the UK that make creative and quirky music, as well the home of David Battenberg cake, Big Mic, Sexy German man, Taylor Swiss Roll, Bread Sheeran, David Bowieberg, Dave Grohlberg (from the Food Fighters), Breddie Mercury, Elvis Pretzel, Fleetwood Macaroon, Cake Bush, Elton Scone, Paul McCakeney and many more.
Cosmic Bos open the podcast in the traditional way, with their own submission to the theme, for Intergalactic, Cosmic Bos made Space Babies 2 (Intergalactic Super Fantastic Imagination Tactic) which you can purchase from Bandcamp here
Space Babies 2 on Bandcamp
There is also a video to go along with it, as is also tradition. Found here on this handy YouTube link right here Space Babies 2 by Cosmic Bos on YouTube
Okay, with the self promotion out of the way, let's move on to the theme for MMC 2.4 which is : Animals. You have until the 3rd of May to create your piece of music around the theme of Animals, what you do with it is up to you, enjoy!
Let's get Intergalactic with the tracks for this episode: 
(Please Note: the songs are presented in the order of the game Big Mic's Big Numbers, NOT in the order that they are played in the show)
1. Cosmic Bos - Space Babies 2 (Intergalactic Super Fantastic Imagination Tactic) 2. Gee-Wiz and the Space Pirates - Get Down Low 3. Colin Pimlott - Intergalactic Void 4. The Pixie Post - The Epiphany 5. Broken Nomads - Nevermore 6. Panmet - Meteor Shower 7. A Sea Warren - Intergalactic 8. Uncle Funkbeard - Rendevous with Destiny (remix) 9. Mario Marino - H Disco 1 10. Mario Marino, John Serrano, Tracy Cloud and Only the Host - All We Are Disappears 11. Trench Gun - Otherworldly 12. Tonal Drift - Scale 13. Andrew Hartshorn - Intergalactic Overture 14. Mobidextrous - The Third Helping 15. Chris Boddington - Contact 16. Notehead - Starlust 17. Sonic Squirrel - This is NOT Asteroid M 18. John Serrano, Only the Host and Tracy Cloud - Are You Home 19. TexMex Shaman and Tea R C - Expansive Expedition 20. Hellwaddler - Penguins Floating Through Space Thank you so much for coming on this musical adventure with us, we really do appreciate it, please subscribe to all our socials and share the podcast far and wide, it's free indie music for all to enjoy, and a bit of nonsense banter for some to enjoy. Please support all the amazing musicians that take part, most of them have bandcamp pages where you can support them directly by purchasing their work.
The poll to vote in the peoples choice award will be on the youtube video and discord, please go vote for your fave.
So finally, Coming Next Month (on the 5th May) will be Monthly Music Challenge MMC 2.4 - Animals
The theme is : Animals
Submission close date for MM 2.4 is the 3rd May 2024.
Email mp3 and blurb to cosmicbos@gmail.com 
Peace and infinite space dreams
Cosmic Bos

Hello there! How are you?
Welcome to the Monthly Music Challenge podcast with your hosts, Cosmic Bos.
Here, I, David Battenberg cake, would like to take this opportunity to welcome you to this extra special episode of the Monthly Music Challenge podcast, all about me, David Battenberg cake, or, more specifically, Happiness, which I, David Battenberg cake, embody.
For the second theme of the second year of the MMC, Cosmic Bos chose Happiness, and what a majestic choice that was, it has led to 29 of the finest songs, musical vegan nuggets of delight, that a human or a cake could ever hope to encounter, all wrapped up neatly in this almost 5 hour podcast.
So without further ado, I, David Battenberg cake, introduce Andy and Nick Jackson, of Cosmic Bos, the hosts of this podcast.
Thank you for that introuduction David, very kind. So, as David said, we have a wealth of awesome music for you in this episode, 28 submissions from the most talented indie musicians working in the world today. As we had so many submissions we went for another round of Big Mic's Big Numbers to help us (or hinder) picking an order for all this saucy awesomeness.
You can buy our single on bandcamp here, please consider it, we are donating a portion of profits to Mental Health Charities, it is very dear to David's heart and he wants to support where he can.
https://cosmicbos.bandcamp.com/album/happiness-is-a-battenberg-named-david
We also made a video to go with the song, which you can find on YouTube here
Happiness is a Battenberg Named David Official Video
Here is the full tracklist of amazing songs in the episode, they are numbered how they were for Big Mic's Big Numbers and not in the order they are played. Except for track 1, that was us.
1. Cosmic Bos - Happiness is a Battenberg Named David 2. Truck Dog and the Go People - Manaomua (LATE SUB for First Impressions) 3. Andrew Hartshorn - Happiness, You Can Make it Happen 4. Chemical Shift - Utopia 5. A Sea Warren - Happiness 6. Mobidextrous - Bliss 7. Uncle Funkbeard - Lucky Break 8. Colin Pimlott - Happiness is Mine 9. Above the Snow Line - Happiness 10. Taylor Lidstone - My Sweet Paradise 11. Tracy Cloud - Let it Shine 12. Mario Marino, John Serrano and Only the Host - Born in the Stars 13. Nakedverse and Pixie Post - Pixieverse Dimension 14. Starve the Little Devil - I'm Happy 15. John Serrano and Black Creek Rock - I Talk to the Wind 16. TexMex Shaman - Happy Ending 17. Age of Infernal - Happy 18. Sonic Squirrel - Dancing on Fragile Sunshine 19. Smokin' Cola - Happy Hatchet 20. Mr. Woody - Happiness 21. Milly Stale - Buy Happiness 22. TruckDog and the Go People - Chasing Shadows Away 23. Marklyn Retzer - Tutu 24. Notehead - So Happy 25. Natalie Williams Calhoun - Happiness 26. Hellwaddler - A Show of Happiness 27. Gee-Whiz - Happiness 28. Gee-Whiz ft. Conspiracy Corner - Show me the Meaning of Happiness 29. Penelope's Thrill - Clockwork Clouds There you have it, what a list of talent! Cosmic Bos are truly humbled by all of the awesome on display in this episode. Please go and vote in the peoples choice poll on discord, X and there will be a link on youtube etc. Vote for your favourites please. And leave us comments on YouTube, on the podcast episode there. Artists featured, can you please post links to where people can buy your songs in the comments on YouTube, so we can all go support you all.
The People Choice Award for MMC 2.1 First Impressions went to (drumroll.......) Above the Snow Line, Tracy Cloud and John Serrano for their song First Impressions, thank you for all that voted, and you clearly have good taste picking this tasty track.
Without further ado, the theme for MMC 2.3 will be Intergalactic
You have until the 5th April to get your Intergalactic songs to Cosmic Bos. Please send an mp3 and a write up about your song to cosmicbos@gmail.com and if you are a first time submitter please include a Bio, tell us about yourself.
We will still accept songs around both the 'F

Welcome friends and lovers to the Monthly Music Challenge podcast with your hosts, Cosmic Bos.
This is the first proper episode of the second season of the Monthly Music Challenge, and it has grown somewhat since last year. 30 songs for you! that's right, 30 songs made around the theme of 'First Impressions', and SPOILER ALERT! They are crispy amazeballs, absolutely all of them.
Andy and Nick, Jackson, the brothers Cosmic, Bos, one S, are here to guide you through the delightful frist impressions from the most exciting up and coming musicians and artists that are creating in the world today, forget your Taylor Swifts, it's all about Taylor Lidstone here, and move aside Andrew Lloyd Weber, we got Andrew Hartshorn on the MMC Challenge (our Rocket, Submarine, Train hybrid that traverses the musical multiverse).
So come on a magical musical journey, with special guests David Battenberg Cake and Big Mic, as Cosmic Bos delve into the musical world of First Impressions.
Full tracklist, not in order, in fact it's the order of Big Mic's Big Numbers! The new game that Andy and Nick came up with to help them pick an order.
1. Cosmic Bos - You Only Get One Chance to Make a First Impression 2. TexMex Shaman - Firstly, I'm Impressed 3. John Serrano and Ores Minon - Rules to Break 4. Sonic Squirrel - Greetings from Planet Squirrel 5. Voltage Poetry Project - The First Funicular of the Day 6. NakelTBG - Peak Cinema 7. Smokin' Cola - Good First Impression 8. Gee-Whiz - First Impressions 9. Only the Host and John Serrano - It's Dangerous to go it Alone 10. Mr. Woody - Warning Sign 11. - 14. Mobidextrous - First Impressions EP 15. Aye Nevo - The Gift 16. Uncle Funkbeard - Thirst Impressions 17. Chemical Shift - Mariposas 18. Taylor Lidstone - I Bet You Skip Forward 19. Mario Marino - Loading Screen 20. Mike Allen - I Digress 21. Pixie Post - The Beginning 22. Andrew Hartshorn - First Impressions 23. Starve the Little Devil - Come Around 24. Trench Gun - When I First Saw You 25. A Sea Warren - First Impressions 26. Colin Pimlott - 8 out of 10 won't do 27. Notehead - Phosphenes 28. Above the Snow Line, Tracy Cloud and John Serrano - First Impression 29. Hellwaddler - Post Apocalyptic Impressions 30. Natalie Williams Calhoun - First Impressions Please go and vote for your favourite songs in the comments here on the podcast, or on youtube (prefferably), we will tally up the results and issue a 'Peoples Choice Award' next month to the song with the most love. Feel free to mention multiple.
Thank you for being here, we truly appreciate you, please give the podcast a like and subscribe, and comments are just wonderful.
The next theme for the MMC is 2.2 - Happiness, get your happy (or miserable) caps on and get musicianing oh dearest musicians of the indie music world. Closing date or submissions is the 1st March 2024.
Email an mp3 (and a bio if you are new) to cosmicbos@gmail.com 
You can still submit songs for 'First Impressions' and we might play them in our 'Late Subs' section.
Next Episode coming 3rd March - MMC 2.2 - Happiness
Peace and infinite love
Cosmic Bos

Hello Music fans,
Welcome to a special presentation podcast by the hosts of the Monthly Music Challenge, Cosmic Bos (one S). Although this is the podcast feed for the MMC, it is also the place that Cosmic Bos put their special presentations and some other guff, like, if they want to chat about something for some reason.
Cosmic Bos are Nick and Andy Jackson, brothers from the South of the UK, making music and music videos and sharing them with the world.
Virtual Normality 3 is our third EP in the Virtual Normality series (you can tell by the 3 after the words Virtual and Normality), with the first one having come out way back in 2021 before the Monthly Music Challenge even existed, the second one hit internet shelves in 2022 mere months before the MMC was launched, and then this third one slipped onto the intershelves on the final day of 2023 (so we can still claim it came out in '23). https://cosmicbos.bandcamp.com/album/virtual-normality-3
A little Cosmic Bos history on this subject: Virtual Normality started life as a showcase for Nick and Andy of their songwriting skills, at the time, Cosmic Bos were making an improvised music podcast, with Nick and Andy working with Joe Philogene and producing 4 epic Full album improv sessions in 2021. 'Space Babies' was born from the improv sessions and was given a coat of production paint to open the EP, with 'Take it Easier', 'It's Always You' and 'Ride Another Wave' being used from the songbooks. 'Stay Inside' was a new song made with TexMex Shaman and loving placed on the EP.
Flash forward a year and Cosmic Bos release Virtual Normality 2, having won a 'Judge's Choice' Award for their album '2 A.M it's Mission Time' it was decided that Nick and Andy would give the songwriting their full focus. VN2 contained 4 songs that had been born from the Music Weeklies challenge on X (formerly Twitter) as well as a Cosmic Bos remix of a song by Andrew Hartshorn and Natalie Williams Calhoun. It also served as the blueprint for the Monthly Music Challenge.
At the end of the first year of the Monthly Music Challenge, Cosmic Bos turned their attention to Virtual Normality 3, knowing that they wanted it to showcase what the future may hold, just as the previous two VN EP's had. And that is what this podcast is about.
Come on a journey with Nick Jackson and Andy Jackson of Cosmic Bos as they discuss their new 5 track EP Virtual Normality 3, which you can buy on bandcamp right now here https://cosmicbos.bandcamp.com/album/virtual-normality-3
Also, if you fancy a free copy of the EP, then all you need to do is purchase our CD from Monochrome Motif Records here https://cosmicbos.bandcamp.com/album/mmc-1-2023-album - Containing our 10 songs for the first year of the Monthly Music Challenge, and a bonus free digital download of Virtual Normality 3.
Thank you for listening, regular Monthly Music Challenge will be back on the 4th of Feb 2024, you have until the 2nd Feb to write your 'First Impressions' songs, and then email mp3 and bio to us at cosmicbos@gmail.com
Full tracklist for Virtual Normality 3
Oh Wow! (Hug the Lady) ft. A Sea Warren Future Anniversaries Unconditional Fragility How So Lucky ft. Theo Please like, share and subscribe to our work
And comment pwease, we weally weally love comments
Peace and infinite love
Cosmic Bos

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

This is the introduction episode to the second year of the Monthly Music Challenge.
What is the Monthly Music Challenge?
Good question, it is a podcast, audioshow, that comes out monthly, and contains music submitted around a theme each month. We did it all last year, and had 10 themes that made up MMC 1.
Cosmic Bos (your show hosts) put their efforts out as a CD under Monochrome Motif records, which you can purchase from bandcamp here
https://cosmicbos.bandcamp.com/album/mmc-1-2023-album
How do I get involved?
If you are a musician, and you would like to submit music to the Monthly Music Challenge podcast, please send mp3's with a bio (for first timers) and a little write up about your track to cosmicbos@gmail.com 
We listen to all submissions and craft a unique show out of them, the peeps of the MMC are the cream of the indie music scene, and you can be a part of it too.
What is the theme for Jan 2024?
Well, the theme for Jan 2024 is - First Impressions
You have till the 2nd of Feb to get your 'First Impressions' songs in.
Is there a way to submit songs from previous themes of the MMC?
Funny you should ask, we had a segment last year we called 'Late Subs' to accomodate peeps that missed the deadline, and we will probably bring that back for this season of podcasting.
So if you would like to make a song or piece of music about any of the themes from MMC1 then please do, and submit them in mp3 form to cosmicbos@gmail.com
MMC1 Themes for late subs are:
New Beginnings, Escape, Ignorance, Winning, Razzmajazz, Artificial Intelligence, Mother Earth, Dreams, Super Spectacular & Finale
So for this intro episode we didn't really get any submissions, we had suggested that if peeps were up for it they could make a track to go with the theme 'Intro'. Only one person took up the challenge, the one and only Andrew Hartshorn. Who also put out an MMC 1 album from his efforts on the MMC in 2023. Go buy a copy on bandcamp, it's awesome sauce and well worth your eartime.
Also, we hastily put our 'Intro' song together, and are getting it to pull double duties for now, as the podcast intro AND our MMC 2 intro. Fun times.
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Now get to work, you've got music to make
Peace and infinite cake
Cosmic Bos (one 'S')