Geese live at Reading Festival 2026: an apocalyptic show amid a biblical downpour

“Don’t drink the tent water,” mumbles Geese frontman Cameron Winter. “It’s not good for you.” Rain is cascading down the sides of the Gallery tent amid a truly biblical downpour at Reading Festival. At least the 24-year-old has dressed for the weather, donning a black raincoat in lieu of the white vest that became his onstage uniform earlier this year. In certain lights, the jacket’s high neck looks like a priest’s dog collar, which is fitting given the dizzying number of religious references threaded through the Brooklyn four-piece’s game-changing 2025 album ‘Getting Killed’, as images of crucifixes, serpents and apocalyptic horsemen tumble out in a fabulously unhinged stream-of-consciousness. If Winter were ranting on the street corner about “kneeling on the turnpike” with an “angel down my throat”, you’d probably give him a wide berth. As it is, he’s drawn a devoted congregation to the tent, like a travelling preacher who’s rolled into town with intoxicating tales of eternal damnation. And Geese sure know how to get the people going, preceding the set with a heart-pumping video montage of sporting triumphs that also includes the Mitchell and Webb sketch in which the former bello...