It’s a measure of Geese’s rise – their flight? – that, on Thursday night, the social media accounts of End of the Road were receiving requests for refunds from ticket-holders stuck in traffic somewhere near Shaftesbury who feared missing the first-night headliner. For many the four-day event would have been rendered meaningless without a glimpse of the New York quartet.

For those who didn’t make it, well, you missed a treat. I entered a Geese-sceptic. I really enjoyed their first album from 2018, but they had become a completely different band in the intervening years. Their debut had been a charming, youthful indie-pop record made by actual kids in their mid-teens. But by 2026 they had become the leading contenders for Band To Define A Generation, thanks to their 2025 album Getting Killed, and lead singer Cameron Winter’s 2024 solo album Heavy Metal.

Angine de Poitrine dress like understudies for Mr Blobby on Noel’s House Party

Angine de Poitrine dress like understudies for Mr Blobby on Noel’s House Party

Getting Killed had felt cold and unwelcoming to me – a surfeit of idiosyncrasies concealing a lack........

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