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