While Geese aren’t due a visit to Ireland until Electric Picnic this August, rock’s buzziest frontman and solo artist is apparently in Dublin this Wednesday to talk to students of Trinity College.
However, the date of the event is April 1st.
Winter is appearing at Trinity College tomorrow for a meet and greet with access only for Trinity students according to Trinity FM.
If it is an April Fool, it’s a bit early but it’s been hard to avoid Geese over the past year, with good reason says you, and the Brooklyn four-piece, led by songwriter and frontman Cameron Winter, have gone from critically adored cult act to something approaching genuine mainstream crossover, in what feels like both an earned ascent and a thoroughly weird one.
Their fourth album Getting Killed, released last September, was one of my favourites along with many others – with the band ditching their previous alt-country-blues rock sound and embracing an experimental indie-rock sensibility that recalls the buzz bands of yesteryear – Wolf Parade, TV On The Radio and Clap Your Hands Say Yeah.
In tandem, Cameron Winter’s Heavy Metal solo album, released in December 2024 has only grown in stature, with none other than Paul Thomas Anderson shooting a Brooklyn show.
2026 has brought career milestone after career milestone. They performed on Saturday Night Live in late January, played ‘Au Pays du Cocaine’ and ‘Trinidad’ to a national US audience.
They won the BRIT Award for International Group of the Year – “what’s up the Brits?” – with bassist Max Bassin’s “Free Palestine” censored out of the live TV show. Let’s go Geese.
Guitarist Emily Green made her runway debut at Givenchy’s Paris Fashion Week. For a band who started recording on makeshift mic stands made from sneakers in a Brooklyn basement, it’s a lot to absorb.
Their SNL performance was equally divisive, in line with the broader public debate the band seems to attract. Fans have proclaimed them as saviours of guitar rock; detractors have called them derivative, inauthentic, or unlistenable. In short order, they have become one of the most talked-about and polarising bands of the year.
Winter has been characteristically wry about the whole thing. Asked about what comes next for Geese at an impromptu airport interview in Australia, he said “more music, more money,” before half-seriously adding that “the indie complex is shilling us right now.” He seemed unbothered.
Earlier this month, Winter contributed a new solo track, ‘Warning’, to the War Child HELP(2) benefit compilation, with all proceeds going to War Child UK to protect children living through conflict.
Then last week, while midway through a European tour, Geese debuted an entirely new track in Berlin. Winter introduced it as ‘Apollo’, a long, krautrock-inflected piece built around him repeating the phrase “I’m going to the moon,” building into what one witness described as an Underworld-style loops-and-echoes frenzy.
There’s been speculation about a fifth album after GQ reported sessions with producer Kenny Beats last August, though Winter was quick to dampen expectations, saying: “That’s overblown. I want to put that to rest. A fifth album is not really what’s happening, we’re just kind of dicking around.”
The UK and European leg of The Getting Killed Tour wrapped up at the Eventim Apollo in London at the end of March, with festival appearances at Coachella on April 11th in April and Primavera Sound in Barcelona to follow in the summer.
Cameron Winter’s talk at Trinity College Dublin this week comes at an interesting moment, right as Geese are entering a new phase, the buzz of the album cycle giving way to something less defined.
We’ll be on the lookout if Winter is planning anything else in Dublin this week.
Niall Byrne is the founder of the most-influential Irish music site Nialler9, where he has been writing about music since 2005. He is the co-host of the Nialler9 Podcast and has written for the Irish Times, Irish Independent, Sunday Times, Totally Dublin, Cara Magazine, Red Bull and more. Niall is a DJ, co-founder of Lumo Club, event curator, Indie Sleaze club promoter, and producer of gigs and monthly listening parties & events in Dublin.
