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Science, music and geekery. As well as organising the world's only virtual geek festival, the crew of Geek Pop find time to make a free monthly podcast about science and music. When you subscribe, you'll get our monthly podcast, plus all the highlights from our festival in March delivered to your iTunes as soon as they're available. To find out more about Geek Pop or to download individual tracks, go to: http://www.geekpop.co.uk Be there *and* be square
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Geek Pop Sessions: Underground by Andy Brown | For several years now, members of the Geek Pop crew have been great admirers of the WeAreAllBadgers.com website. It really is a thing of pure joy and you'll have to investigate it yourselves to truly appreciate it... but in any case, it's the inspiration for this month's Geek Pop Sessions pod. Yes, we've hunted down the man responsible for WeAreAllBadgers' official song, 'Undergound', and persuaded him to talk to us. Jimothy Bell has also extracted some spurious facts from the WeAreAllBadgers website and used them to quiz Hayley with. As you will find out, Hayley is not as easily fooled as she looks. Thanks to Big Cheese Badger for making all this possible. THE SONG: Underground by Andy Brown Sessions downloads available here: http://geekpop.podbean.com/podcast/geek-pop-podcast-the-live-sessions/ Lyrics and badger art from our lovely listeners can be found on the blog at geekpop.co.uk Intro/outro music: Intercontinental Music Lab Sponsor this podcast: http://geekpop.podbean.com/podcast/sponsor | 2 2 12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Geek Pop: January 2012 | This month, we asked you for the weirdest songs you could think of, and here they are. Somehow, whilst striving for "weird", everything got a bit sexy and/or rude, so brace yourselves, listeners. Our extra-weirdo Spotify list for January is here: http://open.spotify.com/user/geekpop/playlist/0JQ3Hp0KUBIvfrPmCGE3wv and here's the one with *everything ever* on it: http://open.spotify.com/user/geekpop/playlist/7xsoEtINNgRjtzdWvxEH0t Computer in Love - Bonaparte "10" - Buck 65 Walking on the Moon - William Shatner Quantum Physics (from Quantum Physics/Remarkable medley) - Onion Flavored Rings FULL PLAY: The Cervival Smear Song (Get on the Bed and Don't Run Away) - Zeph Churchill GEEK POLL: Which of the original Star Trek cast has "done best"? Make your choice at: http://geekpop.podbean.com/2012/01/14/geek-pop-january-2012/ Intro/outro music by Intercontinental Music Lab. Sponsor this podcast: http://geekpop.podbean.com/podcast/sponsor | 14 1 12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Geek Pop Sessions: My Scientific New Year’s Resolutions by Ardie Collins | This month's session cast is our first Twitter-sourced song. It features the talents of Ardie Collins, the man behind the Cooper365 project, in which he wrote, recorded and published a song for every day of 2011. Including this geeky New Year song, that's a new song every day for 366 days! The theme we gave him was "scientific resolutions" - perfect for a New Year podcast. Happy 2012 Geek Poppers! If you have some of your own scientific resolutions, why not tweet them at us at @geekpop THE SONG: My Scientific New Year's Resolutions - Ardie Collins Live session downloads available here: http://geekpop.podbean.com/podcast/geek-pop-podcast-the-live-sessions/ Intro/outro music: Intercontinental Music Lab. | 1 1 12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Geek Pop: December 2011 | Dive into our Christmas "chemistry" themed podcast, which despite our best efforts actually turned out to be more about the things we hated at school (ahem, the nitrogen cycle), suicide, the water content of pensioners and mince pies. With some chemistry jokes thrown in for good measure. Thanks to Chemistry World and Jim's podcasting students for their contributions. December's Spotify list has a few extra chemically-oriented tracks, including the rather wonderful Oxygen by Willy Mason: http://open.spotify.com/user/geekpop/playlist/1CkOftgE45DllxjHqbL0By This is the bumper Spotify list for the Geek Pop podcast, featuring all the songs (well, all the not-ridiculously-obscure ones) we've played: http://open.spotify.com/user/geekpop/playlist/7xsoEtINNgRjtzdWvxEH0t And December's download links are on the blog at: http://geekpop.podbean.com/2011/12/15/geek-pop-december-2011/ Happy Christmas one and all! Rapping the Elements - Oort Kuiper Carbon Monoxide - Regina Spektor Water Leaking, Water Moving - Jeffrey Lewis Nitrogen Cycle - Amy Bronson FULL PLAY: Chemistry Set - Peter and the Wolf Intro/outro music by Intercontinental Music Lab. | 14 12 11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Geek Pop Sessions: The First Time by Lori Campbell | Onwards with our new two-podcasts-a-month mission. And this month we're bringing you something rather special: a song specially commissioned by Geek Pop (yes, by us!) for Bright Club Bristol. Hoorah! We asked Bristol-based musician Lori Campbell to write us something a bit silly for a sciencey sort of show. And well, she's done us proud. Thanks to Lori's friend John Hendicott for putting all the mics in the right places and to Mr Lori for the inspiration. THE SONG: The First Time - Lori Campbell Lyrics are on the blog at: http://geekpop.podbean.com/2011/12/01/geek-pop-sessions-the-first-time-by-lori-campbell/ If you're looking for the full podcast archive online, it's here: http://geekpop.podbean.com/podcast/ Intro/outro music by Intercontinental Music Lab. Sponsor this podcast: http://geekpop.podbean.com/podcast/sponsor | 1 12 11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Geek Pop: November 2011 | This month's podcast is a chocolate box of geeky treats - songs about dinosaurs, robots, space and... er... baked beans. Hayley wonders what the point of a mayfly is. Jim plays teacher, sending us all off to do our homework like good little children (see below in the Geek Poll). And The Hornblower Brothers do some right proper Northern accents. Lovely. Here is November's Spotify list: http://open.spotify.com/user/geekpop/playlist/6nKrWePynPrYv5yzc7RO3A And here's the bumper list http://open.spotify.com/user/geekpop/playlist/7xsoEtINNgRjtzdWvxEH0t ...all the songs we've ever played on the Geek Pop podcast, which is millions. Oh, alright, it's not... but nearly. As always, this month's download links are at the blog: http://geekpop.podbean.com PLAYLIST: Here Come the Dinosaurs - MJ Hibbett Fools Gold - The Stone Roses Autumn Constellations Song (YouTube link) Android with a Heart - The Hornblower Brothers FULL PLAY: His Last Few Days: Mayfly - Mind Map That Intro/outro music by Intercontinental Music Lab. Sponsor this podcast: http://geekpop.podbean.com/podcast/sponsor | 16 11 11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Geek Pop Sessions: The Particle Zoo by Nerd Song | Hello dear friends. Today we're beginning a trial of a new podcast format, so bear with us. Instead of releasing Geek Pop live sessions on our live sessions page as we have done for the last year, we're going to be releasing them right here in the podcast feed. We'll be sticking to the 5-song format for the regular monthly podcast, which means in total... (maths required)... you get 6 podcasts instead of 5! In the coming months we hope to be bringing you interviews and all sorts of extra goodies in our live sessions podcasts, but while we get ourselves sorted out, here's a quick one from Nerd Song. Oh, also, they made a little video of it just for us: http://www.youtube.com/user/nerdsong#p/a/u/0/ItMIjstyOCg Thanks to SciCast for alerting us to their genius. THE SONG: The Particle Zoo - Nerd Song Live session downloads available at: http://geekpop.podbean.com/podcast/geek-pop-podcast-the-live-sessions/ People used to think that An atom was fundamentally indivisible Now we really know that Matter is made of 24 different particles We've classified these fundamentals Into groups called quarks and leptons 12 in each makes 24 Now, quarks are really kinda strange Because of their gluon exchange They only come in 2s or 3s Up quark, down quark, strange quark, charm quark, top quark, and a bottom too. These 6 things are all a part of the standard particle zoo It's time for us to move along From quarks over to the lepton The other fundamental group Now, half the leptons carry charge The other half, by and large, Don't really interact at all Electron, muon, tau and corresponding neutrinos too These 6 things are all a part of the standard particle zoo Some of you may have figured out That particles have been left out Exactly half, to be precise Each particle has got a twin, An opposite-behaving thing That's called an antiparticle Every quark and lepton has an antiparticle too These 12 things are all a part of the standard particle zoo The particles aren't finished yet We've got some things called bosons That are carriers for every force Electromagnetic and weak and strong Are carried by 4 gauge bosons But gravity is unresolved Photons, gluons, w and z bosons for force mediation But we haven't yet confirmed the particle for gravitation People used to think that An atom was fundamentally indivisible Now we really know that Matter is made of 24 different particles Intro/outro music by Intercontinental Music Lab. Sponsor this podcast: http://geekpop.podbean.com/podcast/sponsor | 1 11 11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Geek Pop Podcast - October 2011 | ***Contains graphic descriptions of dinosaur sex (heh)*** So it's the MONSTERS podcast that you all voted for and you've made some right good song suggestions for it. Emmy the Great prompts a very frank discussion of stegosaurus sex, Jonathan Richman stumbles across a yeti in the freezer section and we ask whether Jim's sister is an alien. Remember to cast your vote in this month's Geek Poll at the blog and enter our Monster Moves competition by emailing crew@geekpop.co.uk We've made a MONSTER playlist on Spotify, including listener suggestions we collected but couldn't fit on the podcast: http://open.spotify.com/user/geekpop/playlist/1kAMTuACbuv8RlrwGW58mG Godzilla - Blue Öyster Cult Dinosaur Sex - Emmy the Great Abominable Snowman in the Market - Jonathan Richman (YouTube link) Monsters in the Parasol - Queens of the Stone Age FULL PLAY: Tianchi Lake - The Mountain Goats Intro/outro music by Intercontinental Music Lab. Sponsor this podcast: http://geekpop.podbean.com/podcast/sponsor Geek Pop online at: http://www.geekpop.co.uk | 9 10 11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Geek Pop Podcast - September 2011 (Neutrino Special!) | Time for some topical science-based music on the podcast. This is a special show celebrating the news that neutrinos *might* be able to travel faster than light, and therefore some of Einstein's theories *might* have been a bit wrong, and therefore time travel *might* be possible... Anyway, thanks to Andrew Pontzen, Geek Pop 2011 alumnus, for making that into a song and sending us a live recording of it. We were so pleased, we had to tell you all straight away. Sorry for any sound quirks listeners! Usual equipment was on loan and as you'll hear, this had to be done IMMEDIATELY! :) Don't forget that next month's show is MONSTER themed. Send your song suggestions to crew@geekpop.co.uk THE SONG: Spare A Thought - Andrew Pontzen Available to download on our live sessions page: http://geekpop.podbean.com/podcast/geek-pop-podcast-the-live-sessions/ Intro/outro music by Intercontinental Music Lab. Sponsor this podcast: http://geekpop.podbean.com/podcast/sponsor | 25 9 11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Geek Pop Podcast - September 2011 | Everything seems to be wildly out of place this month, what with oranges in ovens, universes in cornflake boxes and POETRY sneaking into our music podcast... Oh and can anyone tell us whether Einstein once turned down the presidency of Israel? WHAT? It seems like we've come back from Green Man Festival and completely lost the plot. But while we were there we did record a lovely little live session with Johnny & the Chemists on Green Man FM. The full length version, including TWO whole songs is on our live sessions page: http://geekpop.podbean.com/podcast/geek-pop-podcast-the-live-sessions/ And you can listen to Jim's radio show in its entirety (including some Geek Pop classics) on the Green Man FM Mixcloud channel: http://www.mixcloud.com/greenman/geek-pops-sunday-session/ There are full-length versions of some of this month's songs on Spotify: http://open.spotify.com/user/geekpop/playlist/3Xzx6AcU9rBfROJKgqzpYU The uber-list of all the songs we've ever played on the podcast EVER is here. (Or about three quarters of them, because sometimes we get quite obscure): http://open.spotify.com/user/geekpop/playlist/7xsoEtINNgRjtzdWvxEH0t You can find download links for all this month's tracks on the blog at: http://geekpop.podbean.com/blog/ Photosynthesis - Frank Turner Splitting the Atom - Massive Attack Storm - Tim Minchin 240 Years Before Your Time - The Black Keys LIVE SESSION: American Now - Johnny & the Chemists | 9 9 11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Geek Pop Podcast - August 2011 | This month's show is a space special! Hooray! Telepathic communication with aliens and moon frisbees are dealt with, dismissively in some cases. Friend of the podcast, Dr Martin Austwick is on hand to provide August's full play and we announce the winner of our Geek Like Me mini-album competition. If you want to hear more about the science behind Martin's song 'Luminiferous Aether', check out Jim's sneaky bit of moonlighting on the 365 Days of Astronomy Podcast: http://365daysofastronomy.org/2011/08/08/august-8th-luminiferous-aether/ There are full-length versions of some of this month's songs on Spotify (you'll also find some spacey extras suggested by our listeners): http://open.spotify.com/user/geekpop/playlist/4DUcP4MGsQjWh0MFjUzPoQ Download links via iTunes/Soundcloud/Bandcamp are on the blog at geekpop.co.uk Calling Occupants Of Interplanetary Craft - Klaatu Jupiter - Neue The Commander Thinks Aloud - The Long Winters Moon Song - House of Strange Luminiferous Aether - Dr Martin Austwick (full play) Intro/outro music by Intercontinental Music Lab. Sponsor this podcast: http://geekpop.podbean.com/podcast/sponsor | 12 8 11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Geek Pop Podcast - July 2011 | Dudes! It's another packed show with snowflakes, space elevators, some tough decisions to be made in an extended Geek Poll and a live session from the awesome Bronze Medallists, recorded in their garage. Don't say we don't love you. Check out full-length versions of this month's picks on Spotify: http://open.spotify.com/user/geekpop/playlist/2jZaTDLsM27o11MnMOdSWU ...or Mixcloud: http://www.mixcloud.com/geekpop/geek-pop-podcast-july-2011/ iTunes links and the GEEK POLL! are on the blog at: http://geekpop.podbean.com/2011/07/03/geek-pop-podcast-june-2011/ Intro/outro music by Intercontinental Music Lab. Sponsor this podcast: http://geekpop.podbean.com/podcast/sponsor | 3 7 11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Geek Pop Podcast - June 2011 | We're ba-aack! (Again.) Did you miss us? Well, luckily for you, this is a bumper edition, featuring crocodiles, the moon, radioactive children and none other than the Rapconteur himself, Baba Brinkman. His album Rap Guide to Evolution has been turned into an awesome video project, and the live show will soon to be taking to a stage just off Broadway. There are snippets from the interview in the show, but you can also listen to the full version - go here: http://geekpop.podbean.com/2011/06/09/geek-pop-podcast-june-2011/ Our June Spotify playlist is right about here: http://open.spotify.com/user/geekpop/playlist/21g7TjBkeV0nSO7UTrMfmk Roundy Round - Monty Harper Country Low - The Foxes Chemistry - Semisonic The Kids Are Radioactive - Misty's Big Adventure Performance, Feedback, Revision - Baba Brinkman (full play) Subscribe to our podcast feed through iTunes or Google. It's like, totally free. That's not all though. You'll also receive a bunch of free music downloads from our previous festivals. And if you're looking for the online archive, it's here. Intro/outro music by Intercontinental Music Lab. Sponsor this podcast: http://geekpop.podbean.com/podcast/sponsor | 9 6 11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Geek Pop Podcast - May 2011 (The Fly & Other Shenanigans) | Yo! Podcast listeners! If you've been listening carefully you'll know that Geek Pop Podcast host Hayley is getting wed this month. So instead of making a podcast for you lot, she'll be lazing on a Sardinian beach. This means for the first time since before July 2009, there is no podcast... or at least, no normal podcast. We have, however, put together a little package of best bits to tide you over. It contains such memorable times as the fabled "fly" episode and snippets from our interview with Martin Noble from British Sea Power. And if that's not enough, why not delve into our archives yourselves? We'll be back in June. See ya! Oh and here's a Spotify list for this episode: http://open.spotify.com/user/geekpop/playlist/77QGe6JqpnwvP807xoNLoG Intro/outro music by Intercontinental Music Lab. Sponsor this podcast: http://geekpop.podbean.com/podcast/sponsor | 5 5 11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Geek Pop Podcast - April 2011 | We're back after all the excitement of the 2011 Geek Pop festival, with silly things like babies in boiling tubes, frog wrestling and Arnie, and sensible things like maths and a whole segment devoted to the great Yuri Gagarin. Plus, Jim says "schmo". And don't forget to vote in the GEEK POLL! on the blog: http://geekpop.podbean.com/blog/ If you're after our April Spotify playlist, it's here: http://open.spotify.com/user/geekpop/playlist/0J3y0wcj7xPS5JKCASQILW There are only two songs on it, 'cause this month's tracks are slightly skewy. But if you want to download them in iTunes, some of the links are on the blog. The Mathemagician - You & The Atom Bomb Mama Steel - Ariel Archer (Soundcloud) The Quest for the Golden Frog - Professor Elemental Radio Gagarin - Karmadillo (from Geek Pop's Geek Like Me mini-album!) Exclusive: Gagarin’s Way – Dr Stu & the Neutron Stars (download from the blog) Intro/outro music by Intercontinental Music Lab. Sponsor this podcast at: http://geekpop.podbean.com/podcast/sponsor | 15 4 11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Geek Pop 2011 - Festival Highlights | The Geek Pop 2011 festival is go! Here are our highlights: Jeffrey Lewis & Peter Stampfel - 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea Spirit of Play - An Element Sends A Postcard Home Hannah Werdmuller – Diurnal Migration Wolfington - Spacefox (Live) MJ Hibbett - A Little Bit Helen Arney - Erwin's Other Animals Lårs & Marïse – Phibonacci Nova Matt Westcott - Love is Never Mean Marian Call – I'll Still Be A Geek After Nobody Think It's Chic (The Nerd Anthem) Weird Gear – Black 7 Free downloads of over 40 Geek Pop 2011 songs are available online at geekpop.co.uk For bonus tracks including Spirit of Play’s ‘An Element Sends A Postcard Home’, download the Geek Like Me mini-album at geekpop.bandcamp.com for £4. Geek Pop will donate a third of the profits to a fund for new science-inspired music. Thanks to our sponsors Graphic Science graphicscience.co.uk And the British Science Association nsew.org.uk | 11 3 11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Geek Pop Podcast - February 2011 | The subject of robots explored through song! What could be geekier? We had so many suggestions for this podcast we couldn't fit them all on, but here are our top tunes. As always, don't forget to vote in the Geek Poll at the blog: http://geekpop.podbean.com/2011/02/06/geek-pop-podcast-february-2011 ...this month we ask you to pick the coolest science fiction robot EVER. We also preview the 2011 Geek Pop festival, with clippage from MJ Hibbett and a full length Lardpony track. (Ex-Lardpony member Vom Vorton will be taking to the Comical Flask stage in March). The February Spotify playlist is here: http://open.spotify.com/user/geekpop/playlist/4TevfSUfgpoTEQvVaadAZp We're also putting together a Robot Song Spotify list: http://open.spotify.com/user/geekpop/playlist/18K5l26Y9iVlKGOlnBW8HD including all the suggestions we couldn't use. Dirty Robot - Arling and Cameron I Am Not a Robot - Marina and the Diamonds Build the Robots - Dr Steel Robot Rock – Daft Punk Robot Son - Lardpony (full play) You can also get this podcast on MixCloud at: http://www.mixcloud.com/geekpop/ including full-length tracks. But for a downloadable version, stick to iTunes. Intro/outro music by Intercontinental Music Lab. Sponsor this podcast: http://geekpop.podbean.com/podcast/sponsor | 6 2 11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Geek Pop Podcast - January 2011 | Happy New Year! This month in the podcast we get to grips with The Future, both technologically and science... fictionally, as we discuss dystopian futures, the many forms the coming apocalypse could take and what albums we'd want with us on a space trip. The crew has finally entered the digital era, with some new sound recording equipment, but do bear with us as we haven't quite figured it all out yet. Conversely, this month's live session is from the distant past - the other half of a live session recorded by Spirit of Play in March 2010. (See the March 2010 live session for the first half). The January Spotify playlist is here: http://open.spotify.com/user/geekpop/playlist/00uqPixrbPGS8UhGMtukH1 But if you want to download the tracks on iTunes, you can find the links on our blog: http://geekpop.podbean.com/blog/ All of One is the Other - The Most Serene Republic Citizens of Tomorrow - Tokyo Police Club The Rise and Fall of Intelligent Design - Rodney Crowell One Night in Space - Tangerine Dream Live session: M - Spirit of Play You can also get this podcast on MixCloud, including full-length tracks: http://www.mixcloud.com/geekpop/geek-pop-podcast-january-2011/ Intro/outro music by Intercontinental Music Lab. Sponsor this podcast: http://geekpop.podbean.com/podcast/sponsor | 4 1 11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Geek Pop Podcast - December | It's the Christmas podcast! Complete with sleigh bells, a baby and Christmas dinner, not to mention Christmas spirit in the form of ethanol. Plus, we speak to Jon Butterworth, who's been involved in making an album with scientists at the Large Hadron Collider, and discuss snowflakes the size of milk pans. This month's live session isn't *technically* live but it was recorded exclusively for us, for the purpose of our Christmas podcast. And it is AWESOMELY geeky. Thanks to Declan Fleming for that. Sadly, this month's playlist was a bit obscure for Spotify, so you'll only find one song on the list, but here it is: http://open.spotify.com/user/geekpop/playlist/3wXIRbFMfmbhbqaBhRQjKS You'll find links to download all of the tracks featured on the blog: http://geekpop.podbean.com/2010/10/05/geek-pop-podcast-december/ Vitamin - Kraftwerk Points Of Order – The TLAs Machines (Back To Humans) – Queen Snow – Arran Arctic Live(ish) session: I Wish I Had A Smaller pKa – Declan Fleming You can also get this podcast on MixCloud, including full-length tracks: http://www.mixcloud.com/geekpop/geek-pop-podcast-december/ But for a downloadable version, stick to iTunes. Intro/outro music by Intercontinental Music Lab. Sponsor this podcast. | 5 12 10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Geek Pop Podcast - November - update* | In this month's show, we ponder EVIL science, find out why the moon isn't really that silvery (despite what Little Richard might say) and temporarily lose our jobs to some students. Thanks to The Standards for letting us into their home to record this month's live session. As always, you'll find links to download the tracks on our blog at: http://geekpop.podbean.com/blog/ Or there's a Spotify list at: http://open.spotify.com/user/geekpop/... Sponsor this podcast: http://geekpop.podbean.com/podcast/sp... Intro/outro music by Intercontinental Music Lab. | 3 11 10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Geek Pop Podcast - October | This month's podcast skips merrily from militant fruitarianism to a rat-shaped hole, to genetics-based calypso. Also: Hayley's Bette Davis impression and the results of that all-important Geek Poll. For the new poll (we need your votes!), head to the blog at: http://geekpop.podbean.com/2010/10/05/geek-pop-podcast-october/ MIXCLOUD: It's now possible to listen online to a version of this podcast that includes full-length tracks, which means you get nearly a full hour of Geek Pop. Yay! http://www.mixcloud.com/geekpop/geek-pop-podcast-october/ BUT, you can't download from MixCloud, so stick to iTunes if you want this for your iPod. This month's live session is from Jonny Berliner on August's Green Man FM show hosted by Jim at Green Man Festival. Find a link to that show on the blog for an interview with the man himself. TRACK LISTING: Supertheory of Supereverything - Gogol Bordello Vertigo - The Libertines Machine - The Hat Sciurus Carolinensis - George Hrab LIVE SESSION: Genetics Calypso (live) - Jonny Berliner Intro/outro music by Intercontinental Music Lab. To sponsor this podcast go to http://geekpop.podbean.com/podcast/sponsor | 5 10 10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Geek Pop Podcast - September | So this is the one all you budding song writers have been waiting for. The time has come for us to announce the winner of our Summer Song Writing Competition! It hasn't been easy choosing a winner. In fact, it's been bloody hard. You've all done such a darn good job. So big thanks to our judges for making all the tough decisions, and a special shout out to Graphic Science for making it worth the winner's while by stumping up £100 of Gadget Shop vouchers... Oooooh. Now, you'll just have to listen to the end to see who's won them. And in the mean time, you can hear us trying (and failing spectacularly) to get to grips with M theory, pondering over an Inuit hymn and doing the old big-fish-little-fish-cardboard box routine (whether you can actually hear that last one is debatable). 11th Dimension - Julian Casablancas Beautiful People - The Books Surprise - Gunnar Madsen Crystallography - DJ Stox COMPETITION WINNER! Ah, you won't find out that easily... Intro/outro music by Intercontinental Music Lab. To sponsor this podcast go to http://geekpop.podbean.com/podcast/sponsor | 7 9 10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Geek Pop Podcast Special - Green Man Festival | We're back from our adventures at Green Man Festival (check out the pictures in the Geek Pop group pool on Flickr) and just because we love you, we've recorded a special Green Man podcast. Which means this month instead of one podcast you get TWO. Don't say we don't spoil you. This one's an (almost) entirely live music podcast, recorded in Einstein's Garden, so there are no iTunes download links, but you'll be hearing from: Jonny Berliner, Phatmattbaker & Oort Kuiper, The Sound of the Ladies and Sibelius. There are also videos for a couple of the live performances on the blog. You'll also hear from Andrew Glester, the man in charge of Polar, a project that sets footage of the Arctic and Antarctic to classical music in a live concert. You can reserve tickets for the first performance in January at http://www.liverpoolphil.com/3328/events-classical-music/polar.html It sounds beautiful. EXCLUSIVE: Octopus, I Love You - Dalmatian Rex & the Eigentones Dalmatian Rex played the Reproductive Stage at the Geek Pop '09 virtual festival. You can find links to buy their albums at their website http://www.dalmatianrex.co.uk Intro/outro music by Intercontinental Music Lab. To sponsor this podcast go to http://geekpop.podbean.com/podcast/sponsor | 25 8 10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Geek Pop Podcast - August | This month in the podcast we take on evolution, serotonin and pi, and catch up with steampunk musician-slash-comedian Andrew O'Neill to talk about the Men That Will Not Be Blamed For Nothing's new album. There's a new audience-interactive section, which is by no means rocket science and basically involves you choosing between one thing and another thing. A poll, if you will. Go to the blog at http://geekpop.podbean.com/blog to choose between LSD and walnuts (all will become clear after listening). Our live session this month is from Bert Miller & the Animal Folk, whom you can find at the Geek Pop '10 virtual festival site, or in the video highlights from our Bristol gig. Buy their EP! It's great! Links to this month's playlist tracks in iTunes and Spotify can be found on the blog. There's also that marvellous diagram Hayley mentions. Serotonin -Mystery Jets Charlie - The Men That Will Be Blamed For Nothing Streamlined - Being 747 Pi - Kate Bush EXCLUSIVE Bunnyhuggers (Live) - Bert Miller & the Animal Folk Intro/outro music by Intercontinental Music Lab. To sponsor this podcast go to http://geekpop.podbean.com/podcast/sponsor | 30 7 10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Geek Pop Podcast - July | It's mayhem this month as the crew (okay, mainly Hayley) is driven to distraction by CREATURES attempting to disturb the peace and serenity of the Geek Pop studio. As a result - and due to the fact that the internet at Geek Pop HQ deserted us just before the show - there's a slight shortfall of science in the July episode... Our live session is from Geek Pop '10 artist Karmadillo. Plus we bring you news of the Geek Pop summer song writing competition, in which you could win the awesomest of awesome prizes. You can find links to this month's tracks at the website at www.geekpop.co.uk along with more info about that song writing competition. Bunsen Burner - Beatnik Turtle Black Star - Radiohead Biochemistry Pie - Kevin Ahern Atomic - Blondie EXCLUSIVE Arabidopsis - Karmadillo (Live) Subscribe to our podcast feed through iTunes or Google. It's like, totally free. That's not all though. You'll also receive a bunch of free music downloads from our previous festivals. | 7 7 10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Geek Pop Podcast - June | We pull out two of the classics of the geek pop genre this month, as we tackle Tom Lehrer's Element Song and a spot of Monty Python. Both excellent suggestions from our listeners, so keep on sending them in! The address, as always, is crew@geekpop.co.uk The live session in June is from Aidy, one of our artists from this year's festival. You can go to Aidy's website to download his entire album. And you can find links to all our previous live session on the Podcast page at our website www.geekpop.co.uk ADD SUV - Uffie ft. Pharrell Williams The Element Song - Tom Lehrer Chemical Calisthenics - Blackilicious The Galaxy Song - Monty Python EXCLUSIVE: 3 Monkeys (live) - Aidy | 3 6 10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Geek Pop Podcast - May | Continuing with our new format, we bring you an exclusive live session from Adam Kay and Suman Biswas of Amateur Transplants, the singing doctor duo. No interview though - but there's a whole story to be told about that... Also on this month's medicine-themed podcast: disease, another classic track from Geek Pop faves Flaming Lips (check out our first ever podcast for the other), more disease, and Hayley's surprise turns sour. You can find links to all this month's playlist tracks at the Geek Pop website. Masterswarm - Andrew Bird Senses Working Overtime - XTC Hospital - The Lemonheads Free Radicals - Flaming Lips EXCLUSIVE: Amateur Transplants Live in Bristol Oh, and make sure you check out Amateur Transplants' website for their CDs or the Live Transplants site for tour dates. | 11 5 10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Geek Pop Podcast - April | In an all-new format, we return for the post-festival season of our podcast... Actually, the format's exactly the same, except you get a special unplugged session at the end. Oh, and it's called the Geek Pop Podcast instead of the Geek Pop Playlist. Minor things really, but important. Anyway, this month, we hear from Pearl Jam (or Pearl's Jam according to Hayley), and Peggy Seeger on the trials and tribulations of becoming a female engineer. Plus Martin Austwick of The Sound of the Ladies plays The Grand Tour, live, exclusively for Geek Pop. As always, you can find links to all the songs on the Geek Pop website at www.geekpop.co.uk under the Podcast tab. | 17 4 10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Geek Pop ‘10 Extra - London highlights | In a surprise extra podcast (surprising because we didn't know we were doing it), we bring you an unplugged session with Spirit of Play and snippets from our interviews with Spirit of Play and Dr Stuart Clark of Dr Stu & the Neutron Stars. For full length versions of those interviews, head to the Green Room at the Geek Pop '10 festival website. There's even some shaky video footage on our blog. We'll be featuring more unplugged sessions recorded at our live gigs in our regular Geek Pop podcast, so make sure you're subscribed (it's free!). And if you want to submit sciencey song suggestions for the podcast, tweet at @geekpop or email crew@geekpop.co.uk. We look forward to hearing from you and in the mean time... enjoy the music. | 26 3 10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Geek Pop ‘10 - Festival Highlights | It's time to celebrate the launch of Geek Pop '10, our third annual geek music festival! Hooray! These are our highlights, bursting with an eclectic mix of science-inspired songs, from rationalist raps to blues about Brownian motion. But it doesn't stop there - we have over 30 acts this year, spread across four different virtual stages. So once you've heard the highlights, make sure you explore the rest of the festival site. Thanks to our artists for putting on such a great show this year, and to all our sponsors and supporters for making it happen. All the individual tracks on this podcast will appear in your iTunes, but you'll need to come to the site to download the rest. And if you're not already subscribed... why ever not? Do it now! It's free! You'll also get our monthly podcast. image: alex davis | 12 3 10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The New Campaign for More Sound - Robot Disaster | Free download of track from our Geek Pop '10 highlights. | 12 3 10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The Grand Tour - The Sound of the Ladies | Free download of track from our Geek Pop '10 highlights. | 12 3 10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Brownian Motion Blues - Karmadillo | Free download of track from our Geek Pop '10 highlights. | 12 3 10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Neutron Star - Johnny & the Chemists | Free download of track from our Geek Pop '10 highlights. | 12 3 10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Level UP! - Sci-Fried | Free download of track from our Geek Pop '10 highlights. | 12 3 10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Bake Sale for NASA - Craftlass | Free download of track from our Geek Pop '10 highlights. | 12 3 10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Statistically I Love You - Helen Arney | Free download of track from our Geek Pop '10 highlights. | 12 3 10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Explicit3 Monkeys - Aidy | Free download of track from our Geek Pop '10 highlights. | 12 3 10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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ExplicitOff That (Rationalist Anthem) - Baba Brinkman | Free download of track from our Geek Pop '10 highlights. | 12 3 10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Biology - Lamar Holley | Free download of track from our Geek Pop '10 highlights. | 12 3 10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Laika - Intercontinental Music Lab | Free download of track from our Geek Pop '10 highlights. | 12 3 10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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A Glorious Dawn (Cosmos Remix) - Symphony of Science | Free download of track from our Geek Pop '10 highlights. | 12 3 10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Peltier Cooling - Fourwave Mixing | Free download of track from our Geek Pop '10 highlights. | 12 3 10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Geek Pop Playlist - February (festival preview) | 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 live gig, sneaky snippets from 2010 artists, and a WHOLE SONG from Helen Arney, who you can see live at our London gig. You can find links to full versions of the songs on the blog at www.geekpop.co.uk 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 Once a Week - Helen Arney As always, use the comment box on the blog, tweet at @geekpop or email crew@geekpop.co.uk to let us know what you think about the science behind the songs. | 4 2 10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Geek Pop Playlist - January | 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! Share Ĥ | 6 1 10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Geek Pop Playlist - December (xmas spesh!) | 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... Share Ĥ | 4 12 09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Geek Pop Playlist - November | 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. Share Ĥ | 4 11 09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Geek Pop Playlist - October | 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. Share Ĥ | 10 10 09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Geek Pop Playlist - September | 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. Share Ĥ | 11 9 09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Geek Pop Playlist - August | 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. Share Ĥ | 12 8 09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Geek Pop Playlist - July | 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: 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 on the blog, 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. | 22 7 09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Songs for Fishermen | 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. Share Ĥ | 14 5 09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Geeks at the Cambridge Science Festival | Having launched our virtual festival this year, we geeks thought we would head off to a real world festival and find out what was going down. So on Saturday we set off (before dawn) for the Cambridge Science Festival in... er... Cambridge. Check out the podcast, which includes an interview with numbers whizz Carol Vorderman and an acoustic set with Geek Poppers Intercontinental Music Lab. And the festival runs until 22nd so there's still time... Download with iTunes Share Ĥ | 18 3 09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Geek Pop ‘09 - Festival Highlights | Well, here it is. It's what you've all been waiting for... all your favourite sci-pop bands in one virtual field, ahem. And these are our highlights. Your host for the festival podcast is Vicky, who is joined at Geek Pop by roving reporters Hayley and Jim, bringing you all the fun from around the festival. To download individual tracks, run along to the festival site at www.geekpop.co.uk, where you can browse by stage and artist. And there's a lot more going on than we could cover in one podcast! Enjoy! Download this podcast for iTunes Share Ĥ | 6 3 09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Geek Pop ‘08 - Festival Highlights | Geek Pop audio is hosted here. You'll find the '08 festival site at Null Hypothesis, but you can click on the media player below to hear full performances. (Or click on individual performances in the posts below). Geek Pop '08 is a celebration of sci-pop music, featuring songs from Amateur Transplants, Jonny Berliner, Let's Tea Party, Professor Science and Tales from the Birdbath. Listen and let your inner geek shine through. Geek Pop artwork by Sam Church. Share Ĥ | 27 2 08 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Customer Reviews
Go on, embrace your inner geek
The Geek Pop '10 highlights podcast brings some of the best tracks from this year's Geek Pop festival, all of these songs and lots more can be downloaded for free from the Geek Pop website, so this podcast can be seen as a taster of what's on offer at the site. In a nutshell, the festival is virtual - it exists only online, so there's no mud, no camping mats, no tall people in the crowd to block your view and your two favourite bands will never play on different stages at the same time.
The festival promotes new, upcoming acts who have some sort of geeky inspiration for their music, and the music on offer this year is really amazing. Personal favourites include Baba Brinkman's Off That and Robot Disaster's The New Campaign For More Sound, but I think that the real acheivement of the festival is that there are so many quality acts that there is something to appeal to everyone's inner nerd.
Plus its all woven together by a podcasting team who sound like they love what they're doing, even if what they're doing is unashamedly geeky!
Bravo guys, can't wait for the next Geek Pop
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