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Monthly Music Challenge with Cosmic Bos

171 episodes - English - Latest episode: about 2 months ago - ★★★★★ - 43 ratings

Monthly Music Challenge with Cosmic Bos is where songwriters and musicians come to take part in a challenge, a music making one, in which you have 1 month to make a song or piece of music around a theme, then submit it to us and we will play it on the podcast.

This is the second year of this challenge, and if you can stick with it for the whole year as a musician you will have an album by the end of it.

Come and join the most creative, expressive and inclusive musical community on the internet.

Cosmic Bos are Nick and Andy Jackson. Brothers from Brighton, UK. They make music, lots and lots of it. It is found here in this very podcast.

Brief History of the Podcast :
Season 1 (2019) - Improv-Revisation
9 Full Episodes/Albums of music that was derived from improv sessions that were edited/revised. Plus 20 music videos.
Season 2 (2020) - Improv-Revisation 2
7 Full Ep/Albums of improv-revisation, other 1st year of lockdown stuff, and 19 music videos.
Season 3 (2021) - Improvisation
1 final Improv-revisation and 4 full Improvisation albums with Joe Philogene, and 40 music videos
Season 4 (2022) - Improv Squared and Making of an Album
1 full Improv Squared album and the Making of an Album special, with an EP and a live album too.
Season 5 (2023) - Monthly Music Challenge with Cosmic Bos

It's a pretty epic musical adventure we are on, come join us, and get involved.
Please like, share and subscribe, and leave us a lovely comment

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Episodes

MMC 2.2 - Happiness

March 02, 2024 22:54 - 4 hours - 332 MB

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...

MMC 2.1 - First Impressions

February 04, 2024 10:52 - 4 hours - 305 MB

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 i...

Virtual Normality 3 - Cosmic Bos (Special VN3 Celebration episode)

January 07, 2024 15:19 - 50 minutes - 57.3 MB

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 thir...

Monthly Music Challenge Podcast MMC 2.0 (2024) - Intro (What is the MMC? What is the next theme?)

January 01, 2024 11:34 - 22 minutes - 25.3 MB

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 ...

Monthly Music Challenge 2023 Awards - Rest of MMC1 2023 SILVER AWARDS

December 10, 2023 09:14 - 1 hour - 121 MB

So peeps, Cosmic Bos (your hosts of the MMC) presented the Gold Awards for the awesome music sent in the the Monthly Music Challenge in 2023. That was the Best of 2023, 11 Gold Award winning artists of the indie music scene, taking on challenges with a time limit and making the crispiest Golden music known to earballs in the solar rotational calander year known as 2023. There were of course, a great many Monthly Music Challenge submissions from which the gold award winners were plucked, a...

Monthly Music Challenge 2023 Awards - Best of MMC1 2023 GOLD AWARDS

December 01, 2023 08:44 - 2 hours - 165 MB

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 wil...

MMC 1.10 Finale (Monthly Music Challenge year 1 conclusion 2023)

November 05, 2023 11:02 - 3 hours - 252 MB

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 ourselv...

MMC 1.9 Superspectacular

October 08, 2023 10:29 - 3 hours - 240 MB

Welcome to the Monthly Music Challenge with Cosmic Bos Podcast 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 ...

MMC 1.8 - Dreams

September 09, 2023 08:47 - 3 hours - 219 MB

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...

MMC 1.7 - Mother Earth

August 06, 2023 10:08 - 3 hours - 229 MB

Welcome to the Monthly Music Challenge with Cosmic Bos podcast (the MMC) 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 trav...

Hartshorn, Jackson, Jackson & Warren - 'Sound Investments' Special album preview podcast

July 30, 2023 09:13 - 56 minutes - 67.6 MB

https://hartshornjacksonjacksonwarren.bandcamp.com The offices of Hartshorn, Jackson, Jackson & Warren (HJJ&W) present to you the minutes from the quarterly review meeting conducted by the visual promotional media department in late July 2023.  Due to time constrainted the video department would like to offer their appologies for being unable to meet the deadlines set by the record label Monochrome Motif, providing neither the promotional visual material for the single 'Playing Office' ...

MMC 1.6 - Artificial Intelligence

July 09, 2023 08:10 - 2 hours - 188 MB

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

MMC 1.5 - Razzmajazz

June 04, 2023 11:53 - 1 hour - 129 MB

Welcome to the Monthly Music Challenge with Cosmic Bos Episode 1.5 - Razzmajazz Come on a jazzy journey with Nick and Andy (Cosmic Bos) as we venture through the razz and the matazz of the musical world of jazz. This is one interesting ride you are in for, as Cosmic Bos guide us through the fascinating land of the razzmajazz. With stunning songs by Andrew Hartshorn, Notehead, Tonal Drift, ASeaWarren, Scowsh Molosh, Hellwaddler, Man of Arun, Trench Gun, Peter Hawkey and of course your ...

MMC 1.4 - Winning

May 07, 2023 11:17 - 2 hours - 150 MB

Welcome to the Monthly Music Challenge with Cosmic Bos Episode 1.4 - Winning Cosmic Bos EP that accompanies this episode is found on bandcamp here https://cosmicbos.bandcamp.com/album/mmc-14-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 ...

Poseidon's Realm - the Monochrome Assembly (album preview podcast)

April 14, 2023 11:15 - 58 minutes - 71.8 MB

Hello music lover, Welcome to this special presentation podcast all about Monochrome Motif records new album coming out 22nd April 2023 - Poseidon's realm by the monochrome assembly https://monochromemotif.bandcamp.com/album/poseidons-realm-album Order your copy right now from the above link. To celebrate Monochrome Motif Records first birthday, Andrew Hartshorn (Label manager) put together a super musical team of ultra talented musicians to take on the mammoth task of concurring Po...

MMC 1.3 - Ignorance

April 09, 2023 11:35 - 2 hours - 188 MB

Welcome to the 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...

Idiots (weeklies version) by Cosmic Bos

March 13, 2023 18:21 - 4 minutes - 5.76 MB

Hello friends, Thanks for stopping by and having a little listen to our rushed together song for the next Monthly Music Challenge hashtag (which is #Ignorance if you wish to play along) Cosmic Bos's little song is 'Idiots', complete with Andy's Beavis and Butt-head impression, it's a song of two halves, what do you make of it? Any good? Video version on YouTube here Idiots TikTok video on YouTube Please like, share and subscribe to our YouTube and podcast, thank you, we love you No...

MMC 1.2 - Escape

March 05, 2023 10:33 - 2 hours - 153 MB

Welcome to the 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 m...

Family Tree - Cosmic Bos entry to #Family Music Weeklies

March 03, 2023 09:41 - 4 minutes - 5.17 MB

Hello friend, For the final hashtag challenge set for Feb 2023, I (Andy) put together this little song about family, and how important it is. You can buy the song along with 5 others on the MMC 1.2 Escape EP https://cosmicbos.bandcamp.com/album/mmc-12-escape Full Monthly Music Challenge 1.2 Escape coming on Sunday. It's gonna be epic. Love you  Cosmic Bos Video version on Youtube - Family Tree on YouTube

Stand Out - Cosmic Bos #StandOut Music Weeklies entry

February 24, 2023 09:33 - 4 minutes - 5.76 MB

Hello friends, We are getting close to the end of Feb and the next hashtag for the Monthly Music Challenge, get your #Escape songs in before 3rd March for a chance to be played on this very podcast. You can also submit #Freedom songs,    and #StandOut tracks too, there is another hashtag for Feb coming today.    Full video Stand Out on YouTube @CosmicBos song 'Stand Out' (imaginatively titled, but when you hear it you will see why it  couldn't have been anything else) is the f...

But What Does Freedom Mean? - Cosmic Bos #freedom song

February 17, 2023 15:49 - 4 minutes - 5.47 MB

But What Does Freedom Mean? By @CosmicBos   Made for the @musicweeklies  #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  #question #cosmicbos #subscribe #singersongwriter #songwriter #songwriting #newmusic ...

Make Good Our Escape (Weeklies Version) - by Cosmic Bos

February 10, 2023 13:29 - 3 minutes - 4.29 MB

Hello friends, 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, the one that is this little bitesize...

MMC 1.1 - New Beginnings

February 05, 2023 14:46 - 1 hour - 104 MB

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 Nude Beginnings (Monthly version) - Cosmic Bos Letters from Home - Trench Gun New Beginnings - Peter Hawkey Starting...

Nude Beginnings Monthly Music Challenge version by Cosmic Bos

February 04, 2023 10:46 - 3 minutes - 38.9 MB Video

Hello friends, So here is Nude Beginnings - our submission to the Monthly Music Challenge for the #NewBeginnings  This is the first one of the year, and the first one of the whole thing, so we put effort into making what is hopefully a fun opening track to our eventual MMC1 full album. Hear other musicians interpretations of this hashtag in the next full episode of MMC. Please like, share and subscribe to @CosmicBos

We Worked Hard for You (demo) - Cosmic Bos #industrial action song

January 31, 2023 17:29 - 5 minutes - 6.44 MB

Hello, Welcome to this quick little podcast containing Cosmic Bos's entry to the #industrial music challenge presented by Music Weeklies. We Worked Hard for You by Cosmic Bos This is my (Andy's) song about industrial action, going on strike, standing up for workers rights. #Industrial marks the final hashtag for January and you can submit tracks made under this banner up until the 3rd Feb. Next week will be Monthly Music Challenge 1.1 New Beginnings, and you can still submit your s...

The Geisha Song - Cosmic Bos Remix

January 27, 2023 10:23 - 3 minutes - 4.17 MB

The third hashtag for 2023 is #Geisha You can now submit Geisha inspired songs to the Monthly Music Challenge for possible inclusion in the first proper episode of MMC Submissions for MMC 1.1 New Beginnings open until the 3rd Feb 2023, so get a move on music makers. This song is Cosmic Bos' submission to the Geisha challenge, not our usual style for sure, we went with a remix angle rather then an imitation one, not sure we could learn the intricacies of traditional Japanese music in a ...

One Pixel at a Time (demo) by Cosmic Bos

January 22, 2023 15:17 - 4 minutes - 5.3 MB

Hello friends, As Cosmic Bos are now running the Monthly Music Challenge, we are a little light on music videos to pepper up our podcast feed. So we will be adding our hashtag songs for the other weeks of the Music Weeklies challenge into our podcast feed, to use the bandwidth.  This first month of the Monthly Music Challenge is focused on the hashtag New Beginnings - and the entries have been coming in, we are really excited to put together the first proper episode of the Monthly Music ...

Nude Beginnings Weeklies Version by Cosmic Bos for #NewBeginnings

January 13, 2023 14:59 - 3 minutes - 3.67 MB

A week into the Monthly Music Challenge and the @musicweeklies chaps have closed the door on submissions and opened up the next hashtag, so @CosmicBos present to you their song 'Nude Beginnings' in its raw week old form. We will now begin the tweaking process, tidy this mess up, get some sweet harmonies in there, maybe a guitar or two more, and I've been eyeing up the bagpipes for a track too (not that I can play them, or have any). You have until the 3rd of Feb to send us your #NewBegin...

Monthly Music Challenge with Cosmic Bos - Introduction

January 08, 2023 17:38 - 36 minutes - 42.7 MB

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 th...

Closed to the Public (Official Music Video)

December 31, 2022 05:00 - 3 minutes - 46.3 MB Video

Hello Friends, Closed to the Public by Cosmic Bos Taken from 2 A.M, It's Mission Time https://cosmicbos.bandcamp.com/album/2-a-m-its-mission-time The final track on our Judges Choice Award Winning album from the #albumwritingclub Lights and Lines Album Challenge https://linktr.ee/cosmicbos This song is about private land and secrets that are contained within. All Music and Video made by Nick Jackson and Andy Jackson Please like, share and subscribe to @CosmicBos 

Stop Saying 1984 to Make a Point (Official Music Video)

December 30, 2022 09:29 - 3 minutes - 40.6 MB Video

Hello friends, Stop Saying 1984 to Make a Point by Cosmic Bos From our Judges Choice Award Winning Album  https://cosmicbos.bandcamp.com/album/2-a-m-its-mission-time This song is about how people often quote and use the ideas presented in the text of 1984 by George Orwell, to make a point, which ultimately just reveals that the person saying it has not read or understood the text they are quoting, and ironically furthering some of the more alarming elements of the text. Probably not ...

Cosmic Bos Live #2 (2022)

December 25, 2022 07:36 - 30 minutes - 35.2 MB

Hello you, Nice to see you here, how's it going? In 2022, Nick and Andy worked on some really fun, exciting projects, and it seemed fitting to close out the year with a little acoustic performance of a selection of the years songs made by Cosmic Bos. Also, the boys did a cover of a Dan Wilson song, Dancing on the Moon, which was Baby Theo's favourite song on the year (he made us play it to him lots and lots). There had been plans for a whole 'Dan Wilson' special, but alas, time got the...

Best of Season 4 (2022)

December 10, 2022 08:47 - 2 hours - 169 MB

Hello lovely you, Welcome to the Best of Season 4 (2022) of the Cosmic Bos Music Podcast. It's been a crazy fun year, full of competitions and compositions, challenges and sandwiches, and a breakdown of the music making process in the form of our Making of an Album special presentation. Sit back, relax, and enjoy this meandering adventure through the year of 2022 with your musical guides, Cosmic Bos. Here's the interview with did with Mark Schuster as mentioned in the podcast (it was...

False Promises (Cosmic Bos Mix) - Andrew Hartshorn ft. Natalie Williams Calhoun

December 03, 2022 14:55 - 2 minutes - 26.9 MB Video

False Promises (Cosmic Bos Mix) - Andrew Hartshorn ft. Natalie Williams Calhoun, vocalled and remixed by Cosmic Bos Taken from Cosmic Bos Virtual Normality 2 False Promises is originally a song on Andrew Hartshorn's album Movie House, which featured Natalie Williams Calhoun's sublime Cello playing. Cosmic Bos liked the song, so Andy wrote lyrics and a melody, recorded it with Nick, sent it to Andrew, and then Nick added Bass and Drums (and a couple of other things), and we called it a Bo...

NUN in a KAYAK (Official Lyric Video) Palindrome Song

November 27, 2022 10:16 - 3 minutes - 170 MB Video

Hello friends, Cosmic Bos present to you Nun in a Kayak From their new EP - Virtual Normality 2 https://linktr.ee/cosmicbos This song was written for the Music Weeklies challenge on Twitter, for the hashtag PalinLoop (which was about Palindromes andLoops), and was subsequently rerecorded by Nick and Andy to be part of Virtual Normality 2 (Bandcamp Link) The song is littered with Palindromes, not all of them, but quite a lot of them. Please like, share and subscribe And commen...

Virtual Normality 2

November 19, 2022 16:48 - 49 minutes - 58.8 MB

Welcome fellow traveller, 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 ...

Morning Coffee by Cosmic Bos (official blend)

November 12, 2022 10:32 - 2 minutes - 34 MB Video

Hello, Welcome to Cosmic Bos's Coffee Morning, where we are serving up the musical blend to help with the rise and shine. Morning Coffee is the first track on our new EP  Virtual Normality 2 With amazing repurposed artwork by Gecko It came out on the 11th of November 2022 And is on Bandcamp here https://cosmicbos.bandcamp.com/album/virtual-normality-2 We will do a full podcast to go with it, but until then please sip on this lyric video for Morning Coffee. Also check out our l...

Hurricane Came (Official Music Video)

October 31, 2022 17:59 - 3 minutes - 45.6 MB Video

Hurricane Came by Cosmic Bos Taken from our album 2 A.M, it's Mission Time Available in all good bookstores And on bandcamp - Bandcamp Album Link This is the 10th video released from our album that we made in a month. This was also one of the first songs written, as it was an improv squared piece of music that we were already developing at the time the competition started. The lyric was born from some improvised silliness in the van on the way to a radio interview.  Please like, sh...

Andrew Hartshorn Special

October 23, 2022 09:12 - 41 minutes - 47.2 MB

Cosmic Bos Music Podcast Andrew Hartshorn Special False Promises Bandcamp Link - False Promises The original version of this song is from Movie House by Andrew Hartshorn (ft. Natalie Calhoun) which was his entry to the #albumwritingclub Bandcamp Link - Movie House I (Andy) wrote a lyric for it and recorded it with Nick. We sent it to Andrew and he did the above with it. We will release our own Cosmic Bos Mix of the song next month as part of our new EP. Quilt Bandcamp Link - Quilt ...

Quilt - Cosmic Bos (Official Music Video)

October 08, 2022 16:55 - 4 minutes - 53.3 MB Video

Quilt - Cosmic Bos From the Judges Choice Award Winning Album - 2 A.M, it's Mission Time Cosmic Bos 2 A.M, it's Mission Time on Bandcamp - buy on bandcamp, support us little indie musicians Cosmic Bos (Andy & Nick Jackson) enlisted the talents of Joe Philogene to create this wonderful piece of music for the Album in a Month challenge put on by Lights And Lines Indie Label back in May 2022. It is the second piece Joe designed for us, and it is simply sublime, Joe plays the 12 string Ngoni...

Making of an Album Episode 5 : Making an Album in a Month (Part 2of2)

September 30, 2022 07:20 - 1 hour - 104 MB

Hello there, Welcome to the 5th and final instalment of our Making of an Album series. Andy and Nick continue where they left off last time. You can buy the album that was the result of this endeavour right here on bandcamp https://cosmicbos.bandcamp.com/album/2-a-m-its-mission-time This is the final part of our year long presentation, and the continuation of last months episode. Visit our blog 'Adventures of a Creative' for more details. Cosmic Blog - about morning coffee Songs ...

Here's Tom with the Weather - A Tribute to Bill Hicks by Cosmic Bos (Official Music Video)

September 23, 2022 13:15 - 3 minutes - 42.5 MB Video

Here's Tom with the Weather by Cosmic Bos A tribute to the late, great Bill Hicks Taken from Cosmic Bos Judges Choice Award Winning Album 2 A.M, it's Mission Time Available now everywhere, but especially on band camp where you can support Cosmic Bos by buying a copy Buy the album on bandcamp here This song is part of the album that Cosmic Bos made for the @LightsAndLines  Album in a Month competition back in May 2022, they picked up a Judges Choice Award. The song is a tribute to Bi...

Patient Mystery - Cosmic Bos (Official Music Video)

September 16, 2022 14:25 - 3 minutes - 41.4 MB Video

Patient Mystery - Cosmic Bos (Official Music Video) from the Judges choice award winning album 2 A.M, it's Mission Time https://cosmicbos.bandcamp.com/album/2-a-m-its-mission-time Essentially this video is like a family holiday video, set to a song from our award winning album, Baby Theo returns to the spotlight for some exploring of a Welsh beach and a Welsh castle ruins, with his dad (Nick) and grandad (Dave) watching over him as he explores and learns. Shot in August 2022 in a se...

Bards for Hire - Cosmic Bos (Official Music Video)

September 09, 2022 15:04 - 4 minutes - 50.1 MB Video

Bards for Hire - Cosmic Bos Taken from the album 2 A.M, it's Mission Time Which picked up a Judges Choice Award in the Lights and Lines Album in a Month Challenge 2022 Bandcamp link - https://cosmicbos.bandcamp.com/album/2-a-m-its-mission-time This song is all about us, Cosmic Bos, and how we are available for hire for songwriting or song construction. Please consider us for your next musical needs. All music written by Andy & Nick Jackson Lyrics by Andy Jackson Recorded, Mixed and ...

Re:Mission - Cosmic Bos (Official Music Video)

August 26, 2022 14:21 - 3 minutes - 43.2 MB Video

The opening track to Cosmic Bos 2 A.M, it's Mission Time Written and recorded by Andy & Nick Jackson Available to buy on bandcamp 2 A.M, it's Mission Time was made as part of the Lights and Lines Album Writing Challenge from May 2022. Cosmic Bos submitted a 12 track album and were lucky enough to pick up a Judges Choice Award for their efforts. The song that kicks the record off is Re:Mission, and it is about Cosmic Bos taking up the challenge, and pulling their socks up to get it done...

Making of an Album Episode 4 : Making an Album in a Month (Part 1of2)

August 20, 2022 09:02 - 1 hour - 98.2 MB

Hello there, Welcome to the 4th instalment in our special presentation 'Making of an Album', where Andy and Nick break down the details on music making in the 2020's, and how easy it is to do now. For the month of May 2022 Cosmic Bos took on the 'Album in a Month' challenge put on by Lights and Lines Independent record label, and subsequently produced a 12 track album called '2 A.M, it's Mission Time', which is out now https://cosmicbos.bandcamp.com/album/2-a-m-its-mission-time Wisel...

Whatever You Say It Is, It Isn't - Cosmic Bos (Official Music Video)

August 12, 2022 14:46 - 3 minutes - 39.4 MB Video

Whatever You Say It Is, It Isn't - Cosmic Bos Taken from the Judges Choice Award Winning Album 2 A.M, it's Mission Time https://cosmicbos.bandcamp.com/ Music by Andy Jackson, Nick Jackson and Joe Philogene. Lyrics by Andy Jackson Mixed and Mastered by Nick Jackson This song is one of two that feature the phenomenal talents of Mr. Joe Philogene on the Ngoni and percussion. Massive thank you to Joe for helping us make such deep music. The whole album was made in a month as part of ...

Money Pwease - Cosmic Bos (Official Music Video)

August 02, 2022 08:59 - 4 minutes - 230 MB Video

Money Pwease - Cosmic Bos from the upcoming album 2 A.M, it's Mission Time Coming 19th August 2022 Andy and Nick ponder the big question on everyones mind, how do we get money? As musicians, it's a tough one indeed, no one wants to part their hard earned money for music anymore, it truly isn't like the good old days when people actually spent money on music. But it isn't only music that has suffered, all the art forms have really, and the door has been opened up for the demons to come...

Summer of Bos - 2022 Musical adventures with Cosmic Bos

July 22, 2022 13:27 - 38 minutes - 45.1 MB

Hello friends, The Summer of Bos is here, and we have plenty in store for you. So we picked up a Judges Choice Award in the Lights and Lines Album Writing Club challenge, which is a wonderful endorsement of what we have been doing. Coming on the 19th August 2022 we will release '2 A.M, it's Mission Time' to the world. The full 12 track album will be available on all good platforms, with something special for Bandcamp. We put out the single 'Catch a Clue' with a 80's karaoke inspired vid...

Catch a Clue - Cosmic Bos (Official Music Video)

July 17, 2022 16:37 - 4 minutes - 170 MB Video

Catch a Clue - Cosmic Bos Second song released from our upcoming album '2 A.M, it's Mission Time'. This one comes with a special video we made for it. Video starring Andy Jackson & Nick Jackson Special cameo appearance by Theodore Jackson at the end Using the karaoke booth set up, the boys performed the task of singing this wordy song, several times, getting progressively more inebriated on the way. Catch a Clue is from Cosmic Bos upcoming album, the one they made in a month for th...