Well, I can't quite believe it but launch week for Geek Pop '09 is nearly at an end. Of course, that doesn't mean you can't tune in and rock out for the rest of the year. I know we do keep banging on about it, but that IS the benefit of a virtual festival - that and the virtual hangovers, which seem to pass far quicker than the unvirtual ones.

I'll get to the whole Oscars-style thanks bit in a minute, but before that you might like to hear how Geek Pop looked from our side of cyberspace. Well...

The night before launch day, Geek Pop HQ looked like it had been hit by a bomb or two. We had grossly underestimated the size of the task and were being hit by a torrent of VIP wannabes sent our way by the Naked Scientists podcast. Meanwhile, over on Facebook, Barney Brown of Intercontinental Music Lab was pulling his hair out over a lost plectrum.

Launch day arrived and somehow Geek Pop kicked off (almost) on time. Headliners Amateur Transplants didn't disappoint, pulling off an awesome headline set at The Tetrahedron. The crowds went wild for alatinpunkcircle and Dalmatian Rex and the Eigentones. And Twitter was a-twit with Geek Pop love - according to @rathgar, geek love was "flowing over into other dimensions". Twitterer @grizzlygrowls was perplexed as to how our artists could be performing on the Naked Scientists podcast and at Geek Pop, both at the same time... We informed him that a quirk of quantum theory allowed us to be everywhere all at once.

Over the week, you festival goers have been most supportive, with messages streaming in from as far afield as Australia and Minnesota.  And you've been surprisingly well behaved. We haven't had to clean up a single pile of vomit or pull any of you out of a mosh pit. But if I've got anything bad to say about you lot it's that you'd lose your heads if they weren't screwed on. All sorts of things have appeared in the Lost and Found area - glass eyes, socks, marbles... and if anyone does come across Bill's virginity could they please return it to him as soon as possible? Thanks. Even our artists couldn't keep hold of anything - within minutes of Geek Pop opening its gates, the boys from Radium88 were at Lost and Found claiming to have misplaced a yak.

Like a bunch of luvvies, we spent a lot of our time schmoozing with the bands in the Green Room. I'm not sure what impressed them the most - the fact that it was aboard a virtual yacht, or the sandwiches. Although in Being 747's case, I can safely say it was the latter.

So now to the thank yous. And while we're on the subject of virtual yachts, we should thank Hu Lynn for ours - and all the other stage designs. Of course, we'd like to thank all our bands for offering up their music (and time) free of charge. And there are numerous others who have given up their evenings and weekends for the cause - perhaps most notably Molehill Media and break dancer Keir Moffat, for the awesome "geeky dancer" promo video. But as Keir said to us, he's sure to be a hit with the ladies now... We'd also like to thank Richard West for his web skills and Karen (you know who you are) for being our biggest fan and wearing her Geek Pop pin badge day in, day out.

And so, I bid you adieu for another year. It's been emotional.

Hayley.