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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 supe...

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 wonderf...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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 ...

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...

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) -...

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 subs...

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 we...

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...

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 com...

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...

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 si...

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 Jacks...

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,...

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 lot...

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 B...

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 Andr...

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 a...

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....

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 u...

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...

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 Cos...