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 first of two made for the c...
Feb 24, 2023•5 min
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 #freedommusic #subscri...
Feb 17, 2023•4 min
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 podcast...
Feb 10, 2023•3 min
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 Over - Steve 3rd Ech...
Feb 05, 2023•1 hr 30 min•Season 5Ep. 2
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
Feb 04, 2023•3 min
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 songs made arou...
Jan 31, 2023•5 min
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 few days, ...
Jan 27, 2023•3 min
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 Challenge...
Jan 22, 2023•4 min
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 #NewBeginnings tr...
Jan 13, 2023•3 min
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 the first h...
Jan 08, 2023•37 min•Season 5Ep. 1
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...
Dec 31, 2022•4 min
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 the sort of t...
Dec 30, 2022•3 min
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 better of...
Dec 25, 2022•30 min•Season 4Ep. 12
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 back in Apr...
Dec 10, 2022•2 hr 27 min•Season 4Ep. 11
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 Bos Mix. V...
Dec 03, 2022•3 min
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 comment, and review, these...
Nov 27, 2022•3 min
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 well as Co...
Nov 19, 2022•49 min•Season 4Ep. 10
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 link tree to find all...
Nov 12, 2022•3 min
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, share and subscri...
Oct 31, 2022•4 min
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 (Orchestral Ve...
Oct 23, 2022•41 min•Season 4Ep. 9
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 for...
Oct 08, 2022•5 min
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 in this episode ...
Sep 30, 2022•1 hr 31 min•Season 4Ep. 8
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 Bill Hicks, usin...
Sep 23, 2022•4 min
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 secret location...
Sep 16, 2022•4 min
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 Mastered ...
Sep 09, 2022•4 min
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, Miss...
Aug 26, 2022•4 min
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 Wisely, throughou...
Aug 20, 2022•1 hr 26 min•Season 4Ep. 8
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 the @lightsandli...
Aug 12, 2022•3 min
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 and sell u...
Aug 02, 2022•5 min
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 video (also ...
Jul 22, 2022•39 min•Season 4Ep. 7
