GeEkgiRL

about

GeEkgiRL: (n.) a 3 piece band orig. manchester, england pl. form. electric and/or acoustic (roars and purrs respectively) v.t. has wheels, will travel esp. diet punk/dirty country pres.p. fi (gtr/pno/vox), ted (kit/vox/gtr/mndln), joel (bass - sngl/dbl/vox) lit. passionate and powerful trio GeEkgiRL are a three-piece living and working in Manchester, England. They play quite eclectic music ranging from soulful piano, and country acoustic, to full on sexy rock. They also run their own record label, and come with a ‘Warning: May contain traces of boy’. GeEkgiRL play: Punk-rock-pop It started in the year 2000, in a flat above a pub in Soho while fi was attempting to make her mark in the world of theatre and TV. Sadly for the big screen, fi didn't get much work beyond playing small boys and beatrix potter, but luckily for her she found a friend who thought she should sack that off and do what she was best at: writing and singing. Her friend found her a like-minded guitarist by the name Jo Meava. Jo and Fi started jamming with some of fi's songs and eventually got a few gigs on the london scene. The name GeEkgiRL came about because, as they were conjuring up a whole carriage-load of crap names (including "stallion" among the worst), a friend looked at fi - as she was sat making a lampshade out of photographic negatives - and declared she was "a right geek girl." And indeed that she is. A year or so later fi moved back home, never to return to London. In 2003 she found hersel