Yikes! There are only 35 days till Geek Pop ‘10 launches! So this month, it’s a preview podcast, with special guest Chris Dunsford, who will be hosting our Bristol and London live gigs, sneaky snippets from 2010 artists, and a WHOLE SONG from Helen Arney, who you can see live at our London gig. And there’s more info about the live events right here.

Rocket Man - Elton John

The Ballad of Tony Plankton - Stay Naked

Neutron Star(s) - Dr Stu & the Neutron Stars OR Johnny & the Chemists

Evolution of Man - Jonny Berliner [scroll down MySpace playlist]

Once a Week - Helen Arney

As always, 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.

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Geek Pop ‘10 is almost upon us and we expect you’re just as excited as we are. This year, we’re all singing, all dancing, cross-media, multi-reality, bla bla bla… but what that basically means is there are plenty of ways you can experience the 2010 festival.

So here are some of the ways you’ll be able to listen/attend/take part. Get ready…

VIRTUAL FESTIVAL

This is how it all began. And we’ll be back with a newly transformed and beautified virtual festival site at www.geekpop.co.uk on 12 March. Just rock up with your headphones to listen to all the performances, download them for free and get up to stupid stuff - like sending your misplaced virtual underwear to the Lost & Found tent.

Register your attendance on Facebook here.

You can also listen to highlights (here are last year’s) via a bumper edition of our podcast. Subscribe for free in iTunes. (Podcast?)

LIVE GIGS

11th March, Live Launch, Cube Microplex, Bristol [Flyer]

Facebook event for updates on tickets is here.

18th March, The Science Sessions, The Miller, London [Tickets] [Flyer]

Facebook event is here.

And if you’re not in the UK, you can also listen to the live events online via Second Life, at the Naked Scientists island.

TWITTER

As per usual, we’ll be twittering all the way through the festival. Stalk us, or, better, talk to us, here. You can also follow some of our artists here.

HELP SPREAD THE WORD

Get a free digital poster for 2010 here. Brightens up any dreary blog or website… And if you’d like a slightly bigger PDF version for your office/lab/houseboat, all we ask is that you donate £1 (ONE POUND!) to the 2011 festival fund.

Or how about some nanoflyers? Yeah, go on. You’ll have to cut them out yourself, but hey, that makes it almost an art project…

MORE INFO & UPDATES

Register for email updates from Geek Pop and access to our virtual VIP room during the festival.

PRESS

Press info can be found on our press page. Contact us at crew@geekpop.co.uk to arrange an interview or enquire about attending one of our live gigs. We have a limited number of pretty awesome preview CDs for media.

Happy New Year geeks! So this is the first podcast of the new decade (or of The Future, according to Jim). This month, we take a chemistry lesson from Jurassic Five and make our pitch for sponsorship from tanning tablet companies. And, as promised on the pod, here’s a link to Neal’s Science and Pies blog. You can also find full versions of most of the songs (not Melanin, sadly) on Spotify.

Lesson 6: The Lecture - Jurassic Five

Melanin - Dinosaur Pile-Up

Particle Man - They Might Be Giants

Markovian Process - Bad Religion

Nitrogen Pink - Polly Scattergood

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.

A special announcement this month about Intercontinental Music Lab, who provide the awesome intro and outro music for our podcast: THEY HAVE A NEW ALBUM OUT! And in true Geek Pop style, it’s all available to download for FREEEEeeeee!

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The December Playlist is our Christmas bonanza! Not only do we have an interview with a legend of geek music from BRITISH SEA POWER (latest album Man of Aran on iTunes here), there’s a Christmas quiz and a purpose made Christmas carol. Happy Christmas one and all! Oh, and most of this month’s songs are too obscure for Spotify but you can still find a couple there.

That Spells DNA -Jonathan Coulton

Evolutionary Carol - Darwin Tunes [Darwin Tunes project] [ccMixter]

Bunsen Burner - John Otway

Emily - Joanna Newsom

Stockholm Syndrome -Yo La Tengo

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. And also to Oli Whitworth for audio services…

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The November Playlist has a loose time travel theme - if you ignore half of it, that is… Hayley and Jim get to grips with loneliness, flux capacitors and warp drives. And Jim still isn’t done with his aluminum/aluminIUM rant… Just don’t encourage him. You can find the tracks from this Playlist on Spotify (sorry, no Time Travel is Lonely on Spotify).

Aluminum - Barenaked Ladies

The Time Warp - Richard O’Brien “et al”

Time Travel is Lonely - John Vanderslice

Flux - Bloc Party

Planned Obsolescence - 10,000 Maniacs

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.

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This month, our Playlist prompts discussion of a random collection of weird and wonderful things, including spaghettification, strangeness, supernovas… and pagophagia. (Yet again, Hayley is unable to read her own writing and calls it “papophagia”). You can also find this Playlist on Spotify (sorry, no Black Hole on Spotify, apparently).

Electron Blue - R.E.M.

Quark, Strangeness and Charm - Hawkwind

Black Hole - Aqualung

Addicted to Love -Robert Palmer

Science is Golden - The Grates [check out the “kooky” video]

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.

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This month it’s all drugs and rock and roll (and space), as we discuss cocaine and Betelgeuse. Listen to the Playlist picks, then follow the links from the blog to find your favourite sci-pop tunes. You can also find this Playlist on Spotify.

Rest My Chemistry - Interpol

Girl, You Have No Faith In Medicine - The White Stripes

Far Out - Blur

Science is Real - They Might Be Giants

Intergalactic - Beastie Boys

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.

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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.

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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.

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We’re not the only ones mad enough to make music about science! As proof, we present music and chat from University of Wisconsin-Madison social scientists Andy Isham and Bret Shaw, who are on a mission to stop the spread of fish disease. Excuse the dodgy phone link up to the States and enjoy the tunes.

Follow the link to the Wisconsin-Madison music website here, or if you’re reading this in iTunes, type “aquatic invasive species songs” into Google.

Andy Isham is also guitarist and vocalist for The Treats.  Check out their web page at www.thetreats.net or order their latest album at CD Baby.

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