You can now choose any colour of Geek Pop Square t-shirt your heart desires. Yay!

If you've been keeping up, you'll know that we're planning a series of live events across the UK for Geek Pop launch week in 2010. One of these will take place in Bristol - home of Geek Pop HQ, hooray!

We can now confirm the sponsors of this event as Computer Geeks, who basically perform miracles with machines (they understand computers so you don't have to), and the Bristol & Bath branch of the British Science Association. Thanks also to Bob Foster of Science Cafe for helping to organise the event.

The venue for the Bristol launch is now confirmed and the line-up is rapidly evolving - more details on this soon or sign up for our newsletter for fortnightly updates from October/November.  For now though, something to whet your appetite: there will, quite possibly, be tea and cakes, and most certainly a geek chic dress code.  You'll also get special privileges for turning up in a Geek Pop Square t-shirt.  We're not saying what they are though (mainly because we haven't thought of them yet, but we will).

If you belong to an organisation interested in sponsoring one of the other geektastic launch week events in Cambridge or London, you can email crew@geekpop.co.uk for more information.

Just a quick post, folks.  We're announcing our official call for artists for Geek Pop '10 today.  You can download a press release here or read more about how to apply here.  So.  If you know anyone who is in a band, knows how to play a penny whistle or just enjoys dancing like a big geek, click on the "email it" button below.  Or RT (retweet) us on Twitter.  (One way or another it should, hopefully, get to those with genuine musical talents.)

Awesome. Thanks.

P.S. We're going to be at the Green Man Festival on the weekend running a science/comedy event in Einstein's Garden (Saturday at about 5pm). So if you're going to be there, come along and say hello.

Listen to this month's playlist picks, then follow the links from the blog to find your favourite sci-pop tunes:

Our Velocity - Maximo Park

In the Year 2525 - Zager and Evans [check out their awesome sixties fashions]

Oh, Larsen B - British Sea Power

Ecology - Anni Rossi

Blister in the Sun - Violent Femmes

You can also find this Playlist on Spotify.

Use the comment box, tweet at @geekpop or email crew@geekpop.co.uk to let us know what you think about the science behind the songs.

Thanks to Intercontinental Music Lab for their awesome intro and outro music, taken from Probe II's Golden Message on the Superheroes of Space album.

Listen Now:

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Geek Pop: be there *and* be square.

Get your own here.

Once you've listened to us rambling about this month's playlist picks, follow the links from the blog to find music tracks from the podcast. You can also listen to the tracks from this playlist on Spotify (but there's no 'Laika' on Spotify, sadly).

Race for the Prize - Flaming Lips

She Blinded Me with Science - Thomas Dolby

Dinosaurs - Bonobo

Laika - Intercontinental Music Lab

Eclipse - Pink Floyd

Use the comment box, tweet at @geekpop or email crew@geekpop.co.uk to let us know what you think about the science behind the songs.

Thanks to Intercontinental Music Lab for their wonderful intro and outro music, which is taken from Probe II's Golden Message on the Superheroes of Space album.

Listen Now:

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Geek Pop would like to pay tribute to Richard Ayoade - "Moss" of IT Crowd fame - by asking its listeners to post love poems dedicated to this talented actor.

This is not at all a desperate and possibly ill-advised attempt to attract Richard's attention in order that we might ask him to come and make geeky jokes for a Geek Pop gig/podcast/interview/celebrity pin badge endorsement. However, if he was in any way inclined to do so, we wouldn't mind. At all.

Guess what? Geek Pop is going live. Or non-virtual. Or physical. However you want to look at it.

Yep, in 2010, the Geek Pop crew will be touring the UK, playing host to some real-life geeky music events. So far, we have plans for Bristol, Cambridge and London during Geek Pop launch week (12th-21st March - technically longer than a week, but shhh).

Before you ask, this is by no means the end of the virtual festival - far from it. In fact, if anything, it means it's getting bigger. We'll be sticking all the performances on t'interweb, so if you're not within reach of one of the launch venues you can watch it all online, with a pint of cider (or a nice hot cuppa, if you so wish... it will be March). And all the rest of the performances will be accessible via the virtual stages, as per usual.

We know what you're thinking... What's with all this "live" malarky? Isn't Geek Pop supposed to be entirely virtual? Well, that's a very good point. But you see, we'd like to meet some of our lovely fans in the flesh. And give some of our artists the chance to shine under the media spotlight - we'll be inviting along (probably bribing with glasses of wine) some media types to cover the event.

Of course, the whole thing will be greened up to the max - artists arriving on bicycles, tickets made of leaves, that sort of thing. (Okay, we exaggerate, but it will be environmentally friendly, promise).

So that's our exciting announcement for this week.

Incidentally, if you'd like to sponsor one of these glorious events, or indeed, one of next year's stages, do get in touch.

Clearly visible in the image below - the Geek Pop pin badge!

Image courtesy of Conor Cahill - thanks Conor.

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