Our mission is to bring you unique and original guitar gifts and accessories reflecting all genres and styles of guitar music. Guitar Geekery produces original gifts and accessories for music lovers and guitar players. All the products feature original and unique designs by Becky Moore. The designs are printed onto the products here in the UK, and mostly locally in Leeds, West Yorkshire. Guitar Ge
ekery products include t-shirts, mugs, stationery, badges, guitar accessories, posters and jewellery. Geekiness runs through every design. Becky's love of music of all genres, her appreciation of musicianship, her passion for discovering new music, is what drives all the designs and the company itself. If you are a music geek, then Guitar Geekery is the place for you! Guitar Geekery products can be purchased through the website: www.guitargeekery.co.uk Hi, I'm Becky, and I am, well, "Guitar Geekery". I didn't set out to create this brand, but somehow it wanted to be created. Back in 2012, I was, of all things a designer and maker of handbags. Yes, that's right, handbags. I had also picked up my guitar again for the first time in many years. I was really enjoying relearning. Then I injured my shoulder. Couldn't even get my arm round my guitar, let alone play it. For 3 months. I was really frustrated, but then something strange happened. Guitars started creeping into my handbag designs. And it went on from there. The handbags got ditched. I got geekier. And a brand was born. I'm not a trained artist in the traditional sense. I didn't go to art school. I've learnt as I've gone along. I think back only a couple of years when I had no idea how to produce a piece of artwork ready for print. Now I'm steadily getting to be a dab hand. I'm not a great guitarist either. As a child I learned to play classical guitar. I've forgotten almost everything I was taught. As a teenager I could bang out a few chords. Then I abandoned it almost completely for 20 odd years. Five years ago, I picked it up again. I'm still muddling through, despite the best efforts of my teacher, but I love it. Everything is driven by my love of music, and of course my love of guitar. I love discovering music and musicians, and I love sharing my discoveries with other people. The listening, the awe, the wonder. That's really what Guitar Geekery is all about. ME AND MY MUSIC
My friends think I'm some kind of music guru: I feel like a fraud. I mean, I can convincingly hold up my side of a conversation, but I always have that feeling that I'll be found out any minute. Fake it till I make it? Or maybe I know more than I think. When I was growing up, the music we were surrounded by was rock and roll from the 1950s, pop and rock of the 60s and prog rock and disco of the 70s. Well, that was my friends anyway. My experience was a bit different though. I know I wasn’t the only kid who grew up in a household that played classical music as standard, bebop and modal jazz for party time. But I would bet I was the only one on my street. Then there was the Woodie Guthrie and Pete Seeger and Joan Baez that we sang together at family parties, and still do. Did that influence me? Of course. It was embarrassing not being able to identify an Elvis Presley song, but it meant I knew there was more to music than Radio 1 and 2. All this musical education is of no use whatsoever for a 11 year old trying to be one of the gang. When what your friends know is the words to every song by Elvis, and the entire back catalogue of Abba, Woodie Guthrie just isn't going to cut it. I had to discover the wonders, and gobsmacking musicianship, of rock and roll, funk, and pop for myself. Sneaking the radio onto a different station. Watching Top of the Pops. I still feel a bit like an interloper in those genres. But it's not been plain sailing since then. There's embarrassingly big gaps in my musical knowledge from the years I only listened to jazz. I have more knowledge than most of my age ought to have of 1950's Blues and only a scant overview of pop 1985-1995. There's been some catching up to do. I'm not too bothered though. Music is all there for the taking. The last few years have been the musical ride of my life, and I'm only just beginning. Guitar Geekery is all about sharing my passion. When someone points to a name on one of my tshirts and says, "saw him play, 2002, the New Roscoe, best gig of my life", and I go, "yeah, I was there, best gig of mine too" ... then I know why I do this.
