{"id":834393,"date":"2026-09-02T17:58:12","date_gmt":"2026-09-02T17:58:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/834393\/"},"modified":"2026-09-02T17:58:12","modified_gmt":"2026-09-02T17:58:12","slug":"radio-free-alice-tell-us-about-supporting-geese-and-their-coming-of-age-debut-album","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/834393\/","title":{"rendered":"Radio Free Alice tell us about supporting Geese and their “coming of age” debut album"},"content":{"rendered":"

Aussie indie upstarts Radio Free Alice<\/a> caught up with NME backstage at Reading 2026<\/a> to talk about Anglophile sound, playing with \u201cgenius\u201d Cameron Winter<\/a> and Geese<\/a>, plans to move to London, and what to expect from their \u201ccoming of age\u201d debut album \u2018What\u2019s In Between\u2019.<\/p>\n

After smashing an early afternoon set in The Gallery set \u2013 one of our highlights of the weekend<\/a> \u2013 frontman Noah Learmonth, drummer Lochie Dowd and guitarist Jules Paradiso came and sat on the NME couch where they they reflected on their set and the \u201chefty weight\u201d that comes with playing a festival with the history and legacy of Reading & Leeds.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe were playing at 2pm, but we were really happy with the crowd. It was a full tent and it was sick,\u201d said Learmonth. \u201cI feel like this is the one festival that, being from Australia, you\u2019re so aware of \u2013 this and Glastonbury<\/a>. Nirvana<\/a> at Reading and all these legendary gigs means that it carries a particular weight that other festivals don\u2019t.\u201d<\/p>\n

\"RadioRadio Free Alice backstage at Reading 2026. Credit: Andy Ford for NME<\/p>\n

Off the back of a packed summer of festivals and just a couple of months away from the release their long-awaited debut album, Radio Free Alice have been enjoying a runaway 2026 as recent singles \u2018Kick In The Shins\u2019 and \u2018Crying For You\u2019 dominate indie airwaves and take on a life of their own online. The year started with the band being thrown right in the deep end, supporting Geese back in their native Australia.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt was crazy to see Geese in person,\u201d Learmonth told NME. \u201cCameron Winter and Geese have been on my phone incessantly, so to see him in person and be talking to him backstage was so strange, so topical. That was sick. It was amazing to share a stage with the most talked-about band in the world.\u201d<\/p>\n

Does Cameron have linear conversations or do things tend to veer off into another universe?<\/p>\n

\u201cHe seems, as you\u2019d expect, to be super-smart to me,\u201d the frontman replied. \u201cHe\u2019s an interesting guy. He played a solo gig in Melbourne the night before, and we were talking about how in Melbourne there\u2019s a law where you have to have a support act. He never has a support act when he does solo shows, so he brought on this 10-year-old child prodigy to come on and play a piano concerto before him. That\u2019s just a perfectly genius Cameron Winter idea. He was lovely.\u201d<\/p>\n

But now the spotlight falls on Radio Free Alice. How does it feel to suddenly have so many more eyes and ears falling upon them?<\/p>\n

\u201cI don\u2019t know,\u201d replied Dowd. \u201cIt just feels like all of our eyes and ears are contained in the van that we move in, and we wouldn\u2019t even know if anyone was paying attention.\u201d<\/p>\n

Paradiso agreed: \u201cSince we announced the album, it feels like there\u2019s a little more attention than there would be otherwise. That\u2019s equally as anxiety-inducing as it would be exciting: just to finally put it out.\u201d<\/p>\n

\"RadioRadio Free Alice backstage at Reading 2026. Credit: Andy Ford for NME<\/p>\n

The band previously told NME<\/a> that the core of their sound is the shared influences of New Order<\/a>, The Jam<\/a> and The Housemartins<\/a> \u2013 with their open-hearted but bittersweet, kaleidoscopic and widescreen approach to indie calling on the more euphoric elements of The Smiths<\/a> and The Cure<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Asked where the album takes their sound from what we\u2019ve heard before,\u00a0Paradiso replied: \u201cThe songs weren\u2019t all written at the same time. Some of them were written two years ago, some a month ago, a lot of them weren\u2019t written with the intention of being on the album, a lot of them were jams we\u2019ve been playing over the years. It\u2019s a bit of a mixed bag. You can expect a sound very similar to what we\u2019ve got out already at the moment, but I think it\u2019s a step in a slightly different direction.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019m not sure exactly what that direction is. The album is still very melodic, but I think it\u2019s a lot more considered, a lot more intentional, and we\u2019re all really proud of it.\u201d<\/p>\n

Also, with such an Anglophile sound that\u2019s proving to be catnip for miserable British indie fans, have that not considered a move to the rainy UK?<\/p>\n

\u201cWe love Australia and we\u2019ve grown up there, but we\u2019re quite excited with the prospect of moving to London,\u201d Paradiso shared. We\u2019re all already looking for places and some of us have found places. We\u2019ve kind of made the move.\u201d<\/p>\n

And how are they finding London rent prices?<\/p>\n

\u201cBrutal. Very brutal,\u201d said the guitarist. \u201cNoah\u2019s just moved to Bow.\u201d<\/p>\n

Learmonth agreed: \u201cBow is a good part of town, but rent is tough\u2026\u201d<\/p>\n

\"RadioRadio Free Alice live at Reading 2026. Credit: Andy Ford for NME<\/p>\n

To help make rent, the five-piece are hoping that you\u2019ll be heading out to buy their debut album next month \u2013 one written with a heart that we can all relate to. \u201cLooking back, I\u2019ve always been a sucker for anything \u2018coming of age\u2019,\u201d said Learmonth of the LP\u2019s lyrics. \u201cA lot of my favourite movies growing up were that. There is a theme of \u2018dispossessed young person\u2019, amongst others.\u201d<\/p>\n

You\u2019ll have to wait until the day before Halloween to get your hands on it, mind. Sharing their costume choice would be Learmonth as Gru and the rest of the band as minions, the Aussie trio looked ahead to the spooky season. Paradiso ended: \u201cI\u2019m going to be scared enough with the release.\u201d<\/p>\n

Radio Free Alice\u2019s debut album \u2018What\u2019s In Between\u2019 will be released via October 30 via Atlantic Records, and is available to pre-order here<\/a>. Their upcoming UK and European headline dates are below, with tickets available here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

NOVEMBER
4 \u2014 Copenhagen, DK \u2014 Ideal Bar at Vega
6 \u2014 Berlin, DE \u2014 Frannz Club
7 \u2014 Hamburg, DE \u2014 Turmzimmer
8 \u2014 Cologne, DE \u2014 Helios37
10 \u2014 Amsterdam, NL \u2014 Tolhuistuin
11 \u2014 Brussels, BE \u2014 Botanique Rotonde
12 \u2014 Paris, FR \u2014 Point Eph\u00e9m\u00e8re
14 \u2014 Bristol, UK \u2014 Thekla
15 \u2014 Birmingham, UK \u2014 O2 Institute2
17 \u2014 London, UK \u2014 Electric Ballroom
18 \u2014 Leeds, UK \u2014 Brudenell Social Club
20 \u2014 Manchester, UK \u2014 Academy 2
21 \u2014 Glasgow, UK \u2014 Art School
22 \u2014 Belfast, UK \u2014 Ulster Sports Club
24 \u2014 Dublin, IE \u2014 Button Factory<\/p>\n

Check back at NME here<\/a> for all the latest news, reviews, photos, interviews and more from Reading & Leeds 2026.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Aussie indie upstarts Radio Free Alice caught up with NME backstage at Reading 2026 to talk about Anglophile…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":834394,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[53],"tags":[88,16127,216],"class_list":["post-834393","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-music","tag-entertainment","tag-indie","tag-music"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/834393","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=834393"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/834393\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/834394"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=834393"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=834393"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=834393"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}