End Of The Road 2026: Geese announced as final headliner

They join previously announced headliners Pulp, CMAT and Mac DeMarco

Geese have been confirmed as the final headliner for 2026’s End Of The Road .

This year’s bash will mark the 20th anniversary of the festival, and sees it return to the Larmer Tree Gardens site on the border of Dorset and Wiltshire between September 3 and September 6.

Pulp , CMAT , Mac DeMarco were all previously announced to top the bill and now it has been confirmed that the mystery “secret headliner”, Geese will play the opening night on The Woods Stage on Thursday.

It tops off an impressive year for the New York band who won the Brit Award for Best International Group and made their Saturday Night Live debut .

Geese’s third album ‘ Getting Killed ’ was named by NME as the best album of 2025 .

“Who ordered this absurd, poetic explosion of jazz, rock and noise – where Radiohead , Black Midi , The Strokes , Van Morrison , and Ukrainian choir samples collide without being crushed beneath the pretension? It’s a rare, unpredictable record that comes with such melody in the madness, control in the chaos. It’s a total thrill, but then “all people must smile in times of war”, as Winter croons on ‘100 Horses’,” wrote NME .

They also received a five star review for their recent live performance at the Eventim Apollo Hammersmith.