Geek Pop is a free online music festival featuring artists inspired by science. Every year, we bring together musicians from around the globe in a gleeful celebration of geek culture. You can find all the performances at the website or download them and listen to them at your leisure.

A POTTED HISTORY

Geek Pop first flung open its virtual gates to the world in 2008. Back then, we didn't have a festival site of our own and had to make do with a corner of the Null Hypothesis site. Nevertheless, Geek Pop '08 was in its own not-even-small way, a roaring success. Tens of thousands of you turned up to hear the geektastic sounds of Amateur Transplants, Let's Tea Party and the rest. The festival was covered by the Guardian and Nature, as well as bloggers and social networkers the world over.

In 2009, Geek Pop got its own patch and created two new stages, a green room, a VIP area and a merchandise stall to boot. We added video, interviews with the bands, a festival map and the festival diary. We were featured in the Times and on BBC radio, as well as in a multitude of podcasts and magazines, from the Mr Science Show in Australia to the magazine of the Synchroton in Grenoble.

In July 2009, we started a monthly Geek Pop podcast, which is basically an excuse for us to rattle on about music and science in a vaguely informative and unrestrained sort of way. Each month, we ask our listeners to choose some top sci-pop tunes and then we talk about their scientific content. (Sometimes we get a little off-track.) Since March 2010, the podcast has also included a live and unplugged section. To subscribe via iTunes, click here.

Around Christmas time 2009, we enlisted Sam Church - the creative brain behind the original Geek Pop logo - to re-design the site and create us a new stage, the Comical Flask, that would play host to geek comedians at the third annual virtual festival. Perhaps most excitingly of all though, we organised our first live launch week events in 2010, featuring some of your favourite Geek Pop artists, past and present. Overlords of science radio, Naked Scientists, provided technical support at the Bristol and London gigs to help us stream live audio in real time. In the summer of 2010, we went on to programme a whole bunch of our acts for the Solar Powered Stage at Green Man Festival. We even helped stage manage them and got Jonny Berliner and The Sound of the Ladies on Green Man FM for exclusive live radio sessions.

WHAT'S NEXT FOR GEEK POP THEN?

Ah-ha, well... as always, the crew are on the scrounge for more funding to make Geek Pop bigger and better. (Want to support us?) We're also planning more gigs at the UK's summer music festivals and regular geek nights in our home town of Bristol. But if you want regular updates on our progress, you should register for our newsletter. You'll also get some rather special nerd jokes every so often.

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