Everything is truly coming up Geese right now, and Nick Cave is on board. The latest entry on his The Red Hand Files site, where he answers questions from fans, asks him, “Which song comes to mind when you are genuinely joyful? I mean, carefree, energy flowing, dancing, moving, kind of happy?” He answers at length about Geese’s “Trinidad”:
This morning, I got up at five, I couldn’t sleep, I’d fretted about this and I’d fretted about that. The night had played its cruel trick of turning all the good things in my life into bad things, and it was all what-ifs, and yeah-buts, and what-abouts swirling around in my mind. I crept out of the house so as not to wake Susie, putting on a winter coat because the temperature had dropped and it was sleeting outside.
I walked to the park through the woods and across the lawns. All the ducks were quacking, the Egyptian geese were honking, and the swans flapped about, the leaves were falling from the trees, and the sky looked like my mind – sleety, unsettled and rumbling. Down at the lake, I could tell the water temperature had dropped significantly because some early morning swimmers were standing around, shivering and slapping themselves, their skin reddened by the cold. I stripped off my clothes and leapt in, swimming across the lake in my usual dithering way, allowing the icy water to do its work – rearranging the blood, cleansing the temple, expelling the morning demons. I got out, dressed, shivering so much I could barely tie my shoelaces, then grabbed a coffee from the café and walked back across the park. I put my earphones in and played Geese’s new album, Getting Killed. The first song starts with Cameron Winter singing, in his lovely, plaintive way –
“I try/ I try/ I try so hard”
– and I feel those simple words down to my soul, because we all try, because we all try so hard, and when the band kicks into the chorus – I mean, my God, those drums – and Cameron Winter screams, again and again –
“There’s a bomb in my car! There’s a bomb in my car!”
– all worry is laid to waste. The endorphins rushing wild from the freezing water, the music pounding through my body, the caffeine, the fucking ducks and the God-roiling sky – no what-ifs, no yeah-buts, no what-abouts, no caveats, at all. I am made happy, and that happiness is entire and incontestable. And all the way home, I go—to my beautiful waking wife – on this, the best day ever.
Love, Nick
Last month, Patti Smith said “suddenly I felt optimistic” upon hearing Geese on the radio.
The band have had an exceptionally busy week, playing an intimate, covers-filled show at Blue Note Jazz Club, releasing a new From the Basement session, and being a last minute addition to Tyler the Creator’s the rescheduled Camp Flog Gnaw Carnival, which now happens this weekend. They begin their two-show NYC run tonight (11/2) at Brooklyn Paramount, too.
GEESE: 2025-2026 TOUR DATES
Nov 20, 2025 Brooklyn Paramount Brooklyn, NY
Nov 21, 2025 Brooklyn Paramount Brooklyn, NY
Nov 22-23, 2025 Camp Flog Gnaw Carnival 2025 Los Angeles, CA
Feb 5, 2026 Laneway Festival Auckland, New Zealand
Feb 7, 2026 Laneway Festival Brisbane, Australia
Feb 8, 2026 Laneway Festival Sydney, Australia
Feb 11, 2026 The Metro Theatre Sydney, Australia
Feb 12, 2026 The Croxton Bandroom Melbourne, Australia
Feb 13, 2026 Laneway Festival Melbourne Melbourne, Australia
Feb 14, 2026 Freo.Social Perth, Australia
Feb 19, 2026 Daikanyama Space Odd Tokyo, Japan
Feb 20, 2026 Daikanyama Space Odd Tokyo, Tokyo
Mar 7, 2026 La Cigale Paris, France
Mar 8, 2026 Le Botanique Orangerie Brussels, Belgium
Mar 9, 2026 Doornroosje Nijmegen, Netherlands
Mar 11, 2026 X-TRA Zürich, ZH
Mar 12, 2026 Technikum Munich, Germany
Mar 13, 2026 Lucerna Music Bar Prague, Czechia
Mar 15, 2026 Astra Kulturhaus Berlin, Germany
Mar 16, 2026 Mojo Club Hamburg, Germany
Mar 17, 2026 Paradiso Amsterdam, Netherlands
Mar 18, 2026 Die Kantine Cologne, Germany
Mar 20, 2026 The Prospect Building Bristol, England
Mar 21, 2026 SWG3 Studio Warehouse Glasgow, UK
Mar 22, 2026 O2 Academy Leeds Leeds, UK
Mar 24, 2026 O2 Victoria Warehouse Manchester, England
Mar 25, 2026 Eventim Apollo London, United Kingdom
Mar 28, 2026 Treefort Music Festival Boise, ID
Apr 11, 2026 Coachella Music and Arts Festival Indio, CA
Apr 18, 2026 Coachella Music and Arts Festival Indio, CA
Jun 4, 2026 Primavera Sound Barcelona, Sant Adrià de Besòs
Jun 21, 2026 Green River Festival Greenfield, MA
Aug 2, 2026 Hinterland Festival St. Carles, IO
Aug 25, 2026 Barrowland Ballroom Glasgow, UK
Aug 26, 2026 Barrowland Ballroom Glasgow, UK
Sep 1, 2026 Troxy London, UK
Sep 2, 2026 Troxy London, UK
