‘The last time we played here, we played on a boat,” Cameron Winter murmurs in a rare moment of between-song chat. There are also quite a few boats bobbing around in the Geese singer’s lyrics, seemingly symbolising both freedom and confinement, but right now he is being perfectly literal. The vessel in question was Thekla, a cargo ship turned venue moored in Bristol harbour that is roughly an eighth of the size of the room that greets the Brooklyn indie-rock band tonight.
Geese’s rise since that 2023 show has been precipitous. Thanks to the acclaim that met their fourth LP, Getting Killed, last autumn, less than a year after Winter’s solo bow Heavy Metal earned similar plaudits, theirs is now the name on the lips of anyone left with a desire to anoint new saviours of rock’n’roll. Spend 90 minutes watching them perform, though, and you too may come around to that way of thinking.
