podcast – geek pop
Summary: The concept is this: every month, Geek Pop crew members Hayley and Jim sift through your suggestions and pick a bunch of songs that are in some way linked (often tenuously) to science. Then we stick them in a podcast and talk about them. Sometimes we get a little bit off track.
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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 […]
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! below. If you’re […]
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 – this month we ask you to pick the coolest science fiction robot EVER […]
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 […]
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 […]
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. MIXCLOUD: Don’t forget, you can now listen online via MixCloud, where you’ll get full-length tracks for all the songs we play in the ordinary […]
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!), scroll down. MIXCLOUD: It’s now possible to listen online to a version of this podcast that includes full-length tracks, […]
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 […]
We’re back from our adventures at Green Man Festival (check out the pictures in our 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 […]
This month in the podcast we take on evolution, serotonin and pi, and catch up with steampunk musician-slash-comedian Andrew O’Neill (left) to talk about the Men That Will Not Be Blamed For Nothing‘s new album. (And pssst, tickets for their Edinburgh Fringe gigs on 16-17 August are going like hot cakes). There’s a new audience-interactive […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
