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Christmas appeal 2011
Hi folks,
It's that time of year again. On 4th January we have to renew our PRS licence, which is what allows us to keep bringing you all that lurverly music you hear in the Geek Pop Podcast. (Sample some of it on our bumper Spotify list). This year it's even more expensive - we need to find £140. So we're doing our annual push for podcast funds with extra gusto...
PLEEEEEASE put your hands in your pockets and donate your pennies to help us keep doing what we do. Last year our PRS licence was fully funded by you the listener. Let's see if we can do it again.
Everyone who donates will be put in a hat (not literally, of course) and entered into a competition to win a Geek Pop tshirt. Oh, and we will *actually* do a song and dance in the podcast... hopefully that's an enticement, but maybe not... If you just want the tshirt, that will help us too - buy a tshirt from our shop and get free delivery between 27th December and 2nd Jan.
READY TO DONATE? JUST GIVE WHATEVER YOU CAN AFFORD 
KER-CHING! THANK YOU! xx
(1 ratings) Save Wilton’s!
Geeks and geekettes! A call to arms!
Do you remember in March we did a little live gig at a beautiful old place called Wilton's Music Hall? That's right. Some of you came. It was good, wasn't it? Now, Wilton's is in a spot of trouble and this has made the geeks at Geek Pop very upset. So please, please donate what you can to save this amazing building from demolition.
And to remind you just how incredible this place is, we're re-posting the photos from our live event in March.
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Thanks to Ben Valsler of The Naked Scientists for some of these (the good ones).
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The reading of a scientific paper can't be undertaken half-heartedly, or with one eye on Twitter. It requires absolute focus and an absence of distractions. People offering you cups of tea and the postman turning up in the results section just won't do. And you probably don't want Lady Gaga singing ra ra ah ah ah roma roma ma at you either.
But is there a genre of music that you can listen to whilst reading hardcore science papers? Is classical the only option? Does it have to be instrumental? Or can you happily hum along to Dizzee Rascal whilst tackling quantum physics?
We want to know. So we've created a Spotify list called "Music to read scientific papers to". Add your suggestions in the comments below and we'll add them to our list. We might even play one or two in the next podcast.
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Lovely people, we need your support. Every year, we have to pay for a new PRS music licence so we can carry on featuring all sorts of weird and wonderful songs in our podcast. So if you listen to our podcasts or live sessions and enjoy them, please consider making a donation. It's whatever you can afford. We suggest a number of pounds equivalent to the molecular weight of your favourite atom. But whether it's hydrogen or fermium (ch-ching!), we love you all the same.
And as an added incentive, we've put together an extra 3 minutes of unheard audio from the podcast, just for those who donate. It's a bit silly, but you might like it. Just follow the link back to the site once you're done donating.
Problems? Email us at crew@geekpop.co.uk
(1 ratings) *** PRESS RELEASE AVAILABLE ***
Yep, it's that time of year again... In fact, yikes, it's later than that - we're behind schedule! Anyhow, we're pleased to announce that the submissions process for Geek Pop 2011 is now (finally) OPEN! Hooray!
What that means is that we're now looking for the nerdiest bands and singer-songwriters around to contribute science-inspired music to our 2011 festival in March. If you're new to Geek Pop, here's a short history of the festival.
ARTISTS: for more info about becoming a Geek Pop star, click here. To apply fill in this form.
PRESS: for a press release about this, click here.
EVERYONE ELSE: sign up to updates on the Geek Pop 2011 festival here.
(1 ratings) So if you read our newsletter earlier today, you'll know that we've been involved in a deliciously nerdy project entitled Geek Calendar. Very excitingly, we've been able to contribute - in a small but important way - by putting the Calendar guys in touch with Geek Popsters Spirit of Play (remember them from Geek Pop 2010, and 2009?). They've remixed their track 'Geek of the Week' especially for the launch of this AWESOME Geek Calendar trailer, which neatly explains what the whole project is about.
So go PRE-ORDER YOUR GEEK CALENDAR today and support libel reform.
Here's that ultra-nerdy remixed version (right click and Save As) as a free download:
Geek of the Week (Geek Calendar remix) - Spirit of Play
And for other versions of 'Geek of the Week', try these. Again, right click and Save As to download:
Geek of the Week (original) - Spirit of Play
Geek of the Week (live) - Spirit of Play (from our exclusive live sessions archive)
(1 ratings) Who are you?
EDIT: 23/09/10
THIS SURVEY IS NOW CLOSED - THANKS FOR ALL YOUR FEEDBACK!
Dear lovelies,
Here's a cat dancing like a monkey in a business suit. Now, please take 3 minutes of your time to tell us a little bit about yourself by filling in OUR AUDIENCE SURVEY. We'll be forever in your debt.
Cheers!
The Geeks.
(1 ratings) The Geek Pop Newsletter is BACK
Hullo you lovely folks! Have you been missing our nerd jokes? Of course you have! Never fear, because the newsletter is BACK after the summer break and we'll be entertaining you fortnightly with our special brand of geek.
The first update of the new season goes out today. To get it, email news@geekpop.co.uk. Type SUBSCRIBE ME RIGHT UP into the subject line and include your full name in the body of the email. (More details here).
Also, we need more nerd jokes, so send 'em along!
Loveyoubye! xx
(1 ratings) Introducing: Naomi Fearn
We'd like to introduce you to Naomi Fearn, the budding geek song writer who won our Summer Song Writing Contest. (Results announced yesterday in the September Podcast).
Here's Naomi's winning entry, UnGoogleable You:
UnGoogleable You - Naomi Fearn
Judges' comments:
"A total treat, the teenage laurie anderson and bill gates dancing at the senior prom. Touching, tender, nerd and sweet."
"I’d buy an album of this. Wonderful structure, very nice original melody, extra geek & smile points for the 140 character solo. Really nice tempo & melody variation."
"A fully-formed indie pop song, this wouldn’t be out of place on the playlist of an independent radio station. And it has the potential to become the new stalking anthem that could finally replace “Every Breath You Take” by Police – at least, I hope so…"
"Pulls at the heartstrings as well as the nerd... strings. Fab."
Naomi's website is here and as she says in the song, you can easily find her Twitter feed. Naomi also asked us to mention David Deery, who helped her record the song.
We also want to mention a couple of other song writers who didn't quite win, but did impress us muchly with their creations:
HONORABLE MENTION GOES TO: Andrew Pontzen
The Astronomer's Love Song - Andrew Pontzen
THE GRAPHIC SCIENCE MOST CONTRIVED RHYME PRIZE GOES TO: Rishi Nag
"Growing 29000 plants was not the only trick, You still had to perform some Mendel arithmetic"
Read Rishi's blog post about writing his song, including lyrics, here.
AND THANKS ONCE AGAIN TO: Graphic Science for sponsoring that prize.
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Finally, Geek Pop has it's own radio show! (Albeit for one weekend...)
Geek Pop Podcast host Jim will be taking to the airwaves on Green Man FM at Green Man Festival in Wales. He'll be plugging Geek Pop artists playing on the Solar Stage and generally bigging up the Einstein's Garden area of the festival. You can listen at 87.7FM around the festival site, online at GreenMan.Net or in iTunes, or listen again with MixCloud. All the links are here. Also, follow @GreenManFM on Twitter. Here are Jim's slots:
3-5pm, Thursday 20 August
1-3pm, Saturday 21 August
Yay!
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