So, this episode was meant to be out back on the 1st of June, but Nick and Andy from Cosmic Bos went AWOL so it was left up to me, Big Mic! to pull it all together so that you wonderful listeners and musician subs could hear it.

Oh, it's Big Mic by the way, I've had to step in and start running the MMC Challenger, I have enlisted David Battenberg Cake and the Sexy German to go and press the buttons (not RUB the buttons as SG seems prone to doing) so that this episode made it off of the interdimensional Rocket Submarine Train and into your podcast feed.

This is Episode 2.5 - Funk Drunk Love, co-curated with the one and only Uncle Funkbeard (go follow the majestic Funkle on X, and check out the Only The Host YouTube Channel to see all of the funky goings on) and it features 14 of the funkiest, drunkiest and loveiest songs on the whole of the interweb, created by a handful of the greatest indie musicians working today.

The opening song is by Cosmic Bos themselves, they managed to finish up their song before they dissapeared from the MMC Challenger, the song is called 'Drunk on Your Love' and can be purchased from bandcamp here https://cosmicbos.bandcamp.com/track/drunk-on-your-love-feel-that-funky-heart-beating please consider giving them some money, that might actually get them back from wherever it is that they have gone AWOL to.

They also made a nice little video to go with it, which you can watch and comment on here - https://youtu.be/wQnXo4jZdOI?si=HgQRFXqoj42G7hEj

I, Big Mic, have done all that I can to try and keep the format the same as what the Bos boys would do, not sure why I bothered, I could have done whatever I like because I'm Big Mic! But for the sake of all you listeners and submitters I've tried to keep it as close to the same as possible.

It wasn't easy, have you ever tried to control a Cake and a sexy German while running a human circus in an engine room with a load of Midgets in sexy costumes while having to put up with Professor Briiiiiiiiiiian Cox and a future version of yourself that controls the universe in the future? Didn't think so.

Format the same as usual, so we had the Peoples Choice Award winners from the previous episode, 2.4 Animals, and there were 3 of them! So big shout out to Natalie Williams Calhoun (NWC), Tonal Drift (TD) and A Sea Warren (Al or Owl), you all won a People Choice Award for your excellent Animals based songs, really good they were.

You can vote in the Peoples Choice Award for this episode right here on this link (Insert link here)

As we aren't sure where Nick and Andy are, I, Big Mic, decided we would give you all a bit longer to complete the next challenge, so you have till the 30th August to get your 2.6 songs into the Bos boys. Send your mp3's and a little Bio and write up to cosmicbos@gmail.com to be included in the next episode. The theme is Plantlife, 2.6 - Plantlife. It's a bit like parklife by Bluh but more Plant based. So, yeah get on with it!

Once again, big shout out to Uncle Funkbeard for all he did for this episode, utter legend!

Here is the list of songs that go with this episode, in my, Big Mic's Big Number Order, so you can't cheat and skip through to a particular song, you have to listen to the whole thing!

• 1. Cosmic Bos - Drunk On Your Love (Feel That Funky Heart Beating)
• 2. Uncle Funkbeard - FOOL
• 3. A Sea Warren - Funk Drunk Love
• 4. Colin Pimlott - Funky Drunk Kind of Love
• 5. TruckDog & the Go People - Fulfill the Need
• 6. Andrew Hartshorn - Who Brings the Funk to Your Life
• 7. Taylor Lidstone - Barsnacks
• 8. John Serrano and James Slattery - Adrenaline Fire
• 9. Mario Marino - Plumage
• 10. Voltage Poetry Project - When the Wine Pours
• 11. Black Water Canyon - Whiskey Swamp
• 12. Chemical Shift - Awaken
• 13. Notehead - Funky Butt Loving
• 14. Hellwaddler - PFunky

There you go, hopefully it's as good as the show normally is, we did our best without the Bos chaps, please go vote in the Peoples Choice Award, and if you are a musician that wants to submit to the MMC 2.6 - Plantlife challenge, you have till the 30th August 2024 to get your songs in.

I am the one and only Big Mic from now, there is obviously Big Mic from the future who controls the universe, he's a lovely chap.

Enjoy the episode and stay awesome sauce

Big Mic

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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We loves you

Cosmic Bos

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

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

1. Oh Wow! (Hug the Lady) ft. A Sea Warren
2. Future Anniversaries
3. Unconditional
4. Fragility
5. How So Lucky ft. Theo

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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.

Please like, share, comment and subscribe to Cosmic Bos

Now get to work, you've got music to make

Peace and infinite cake

Cosmic Bos (one 'S')