Few places in Los Angeles are quite like Hollywood Forever Cemetery for a Friday evening of live music, especially when the band taking the stage is Geese, whose wonderfully strange and unpredictable sound feels right at home among the graves.
As the sun dipped behind the palm trees Friday, Oct. 16, concertgoers spread blankets across the cemetery’s Fairbanks Lawn, unpacked picnics and enjoyed drinks beneath the moon. It was an almost idyllic setting for the New York City-bred rock band’s second performance of a three-night sold-out run, and another reminder of just how far Geese has come in the past year.
For a band that’s generated so much conversation lately, Geese had surprisingly little to say. Frontman Cameron Winter briefly checked in with the crowd, asking how everyone was doing. The response was a deafening roar.
“Yeah, touché,” he replied. And that was about it.
Geese performing during the second night of its three-night run at Hollywood Forever in Los Angeles on Friday, Oct. 16.
(Photo by Lewis Evans)
Geese performing during the second night of its three-night run at Hollywood Forever in Los Angeles on Friday, Oct. 16.
(Photo by Lewis Evans)
Geese performing during the second night of its three-night run at Hollywood Forever in Los Angeles on Friday, Oct. 16.
(Photo by Lewis Evans)
Geese performing during the second night of its three-night run at Hollywood Forever in Los Angeles on Friday, Oct. 16.
(Photo by Lewis Evans)
Geese performing during the second night of its three-night run at Hollywood Forever in Los Angeles on Friday, Oct. 16.
(Photo by Lewis Evans)
Geese performing during the second night of its three-night run at Hollywood Forever in Los Angeles on Friday, Oct. 16.
(Photo by Lewis Evans)
Geese performing during the second night of its three-night run at Hollywood Forever in Los Angeles on Friday, Oct. 16.
(Photo by Lewis Evans)
Geese performing during the second night of its three-night run at Hollywood Forever in Los Angeles on Friday, Oct. 16.
(Photo by Lewis Evans)
Geese performing during the second night of its three-night run at Hollywood Forever in Los Angeles on Friday, Oct. 16.
(Photo by Lewis Evans)
Geese performing during the second night of its three-night run at Hollywood Forever in Los Angeles on Friday, Oct. 16.
(Photo by Lewis Evans)
Geese performing during the second night of its three-night run at Hollywood Forever in Los Angeles on Friday, Oct. 16.
(Photo by Lewis Evans)
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Geese performing during the second night of its three-night run at Hollywood Forever in Los Angeles on Friday, Oct. 16.
(Photo by Lewis Evans)
The band, which took the stage promptly at its scheduled 8:10 p.m. start, wasted little time moving through a 14-song set that opened with “Taxes” and included “Cobra,” “Husbands,” “Getting Killed” and “100 Horses.” There were no lengthy introductions or speeches, just Geese doing what it does best: making music that refuses to sit comfortably within any particular genre.
Alternative rock? Yes. Indie? Absolutely. Psychedelic? At times. But trying to describe Geese’s sound almost feels like missing the point. It’s the kind of music that has to be heard to be understood, and even then, it doesn’t always offer a correct answer.
Although Geese has been making music for years, the release of “Getting Killed” in 2025 helped propel the band into an entirely different limelight. That momentum carried into 2026 with a BRIT Award win for International Group of the Year and performances across both weekends of the Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival, where the group drew major crowds.
Every year, Coachella seems to have a handful of artists whose festival appearances help launch them into an entirely new stratosphere. Geese was already riding a notable wave, but its desert performances only added to the growing fascination.
The attention has become so intense that online debates have questioned whether the band’s rise was the product of an industry plant or even a so-called “psyop,” particularly following reports about digital marketing campaigns promoting its music. The band has since addressed the speculation, but whatever one makes of the internet discourse, the thousands of fans turning up to see Geese perform are very real.
Even without much stage banter, the band kept its focus squarely on the music, slipping a brief snippet of the Ramones‘ “Now I Wanna Sniff Some Glue” into “2122” before continuing through songs including “Cowboy Nudes,” “Crusades” and “Bow Down.” The evening eventually closed with “Trinidad” as the encore.
But while Winter and his bandmates kept the conversation to a minimum, the audience had plenty to work with. Throughout the evening, inflatable balloons shaped as actual geese bounced above the crowd, a few adventurous fans went crowd-surfing and those gathered near the front turned a small section of the lawn into a miniature mosh pit. Even among the graves of Hollywood Forever, there was no shortage of life missing.
And then there was the singing. Fans belted out lyrics with such intensity and devotion that, at times, it felt less like a rock concert and more like a church service, with Winter leading a congregation that seemed to know every word by heart.
For all the attempts to define Geese, question its success, or make sense of its sudden ascent, Friday night’s performance made one thing abundantly clear: The band has found its people, and judging by the thousands gathered beneath the cemetery sky, they’re more than happy to let the music speak for itself.