Hello dear friend, welcome to the Monthly Music Challenge podcast with your hosts Cosmic Bos.

This episode is MMC 2.4 - Animals

For the fourth theme of the second year of the monthly music challenge, it felt only natural to come back down from Space (MMC 2.3 - Intergalactic) and go and spend some time with nature, chat to the birds for a bit, play 'fetch the random throwable object' with a dog, listen to the conforting ASMR sounds of a cat purring on your lap, and have the soothing tones of David Battenberg cake share the majestic wonders of the animal kingdom with you. So here it is, the MMC Challenger (our Rocket, Submarine, Train that crosses the creative multiverse) has collected up all the animals it could find for inspiration for the musical wonder that is the Monthly Music Challenge.

Your hosts are Nick and Andy Jackson, brothers from the UK that form up the musical outfit known as Cosmic Bos (one S on Bos - we are economical with our 'S's), and they are here to take you on the musical safari that awaits your baited earholes. Join David Battenberg cake, Big Mic, the Sexy German, Sir Patrick McKellen, Proffessor Briiiiiiiiiian Cox, Little Nick and a whole bunch of other new characters/impressions suggested by the wonderful musicians of the MMC.

David Battenberg cake and his singing cake friends (Taylor Swiss roll, Breddie Mercury, David Bowieberg, Elvis Pretzel, FABBA, Cake Bush, Elton Scone, Dave Grohlberg, Fleetwood Macaroon, Morrisseed, Florence Welsh cake (and the Vending Machine), Radiobread, Robert Swiss, Damon Albran muffin, John Lemon Meringne, Paul McCakeney, Ringdough Starr, George Harriscone, Eclairic Clapton, Michael FlapJackson and introducing Cannoli Minogue) are joined this month by the menagerie of fruit and veg animals, including Labranoodle, Brocacollie, Springaspaniel, Orangatangerine, Tomato Cats, BananaLlama, Figlet, Fruit Bats, Pearakeets and the PineOwlpple. The world of David Battenberg Cake just got a little brighter with all the majestic animals joining. Come join all the fun on TikTok.

You can purchase Cosmic Bos's Animals song 'The Animal In Me Sees The Humanity In You' from bandcamp here https://cosmicbos.bandcamp.com/track/the-animal-in-me-sees-the-humanity-in-you

Cosmic Bos will be donating a portion of profits to support Animal Charities, so please suggest to us which charities we should donate to.

Cosmic Bos also made a video to go along with the song, please visit our YouTube for more Cosmic Bos Official Music Video

also there you can find this episode to vote in the peoples choice award and leave comments, we love comments, please leave lots of comments. Speaking of the Peoples Choice award, SPOILET ALERT! The joint winners of the PCA for MMC 2.3 Intergalactic are... Colin Pimlott 'Intergalactic Void' and John Serrano, Only the Host and Tracy Cloud 'Are You Here'. Congratulations! Both truly majestic songs.

So let's move onto the business of the next theme, which we are proud to announce is being cocurated by Uncle Funkbeard, the undisputed Golden God of the Funkiverse. The theme for Monthly Music Challenge MMC 2.5 is Funk Drunk Love

that is MMC 2.5 - Funk Drunk Love

Please get them funky drunky lovey tunes into the podcast by the 31st May 2024. Email your mp3 with a write up about the song and a bio (if it's your first trip aboard the MMC Challenge) to [email protected] by the 31st May. Huge Thanks to Uncle Funkbeard for bringing us the Funk we need for the MMC's genre theme of the year.

Here is the full tracklist for the episode, not in the order they appear in the episode, but in the order they are presented in the legendary game 'Big Mic's Big Numbers' hosted by Big Mic.

1. Cosmic Bos - The Animal In Me Sees The Humanity In You 2. Hellwaddler - Animetal 3. Notehead - Researching Spiders 4. John Serrano - King Frog 5. Chemical Shift - Asteroids 6. Natalie Williams Calhoun - A Day In The Life 7. Mobidextrous - Elemental Bird 8. TruckDog - Taken by Animals 9. Mario Marino and Jonathan Hadley - The Manimal 10. Callilunasa - The Dancing Bear and The Little Child 11. Tonal Drift - Denizens of the Deep 12. NaykelTBG - Tungba 13. Andrew Hartshorn - Peter and the Birds 14. A Sea Warren - Animals 15. Trench Gun - Nothing Special 16. Colin Pimlott - Animal Attraction 17. Uncle Funkbeard - The Flaming O 18. Taylor Lidstone and Ruby Lan - Menagarie of Love

Please go and vote for your faves in the People Choice Award poll on the YouTube video for this episode, or on X, or on the Discord for the MMC. Thank you.

Thank you for coming on this musical safari with us, we really do appreciate it, please like, share and subscribe to the podcast in all the podcast places, and comment on the youtubes, and come say Hi to David on Tiktok, and buy all the music from bandcamp. Please support all the wonderful artists of the MMC, purchase their music and follow them on the socials, music is the international language, let's keep building this creative community and become a force for positivity that can change the world for the better. Majestic.

So final reminder, theme for May is Funk Drunk Love

Submission closing date is 31st May 2024

You are amazing, we love you

Cosmic Bos