Geese open End of the Road 2026 with ferocious set marking first European festival headline show

Geese opened End of the Road festival last night (Thursday September 3), headlining the Dorset/Wiltshire weekender with a ferocious set. Check out footage, photos and the setlist below.

The Brooklyn four-piece were announced as Thursday night’s ‘secret headliner’ back in June . Based at Larmer Tree Gardens, on the Dorset-Wiltshire border, End of the Road is celebrating its 20th anniversary this year.

Held on the main stage (dubbed the Woods), Geese’s first European festival headline slot opened with the same montage of sporting triumphs that they showcased at their epic Reading Festival last week , culminating in a clip of the famous Mitchell and Webb sketch in which the former implores the viewer to “watch the football!”

The festival was noticeably busier than it usually is on a Thursday night, with Geese drawing a huge crowd. The show drew heavily on the band’s 2025 album ‘Getting Killed’ , beginning with a laidback ‘Husbands’ that featured a guitar solo even more languid than the one on the record.

This theme continued through the gig, as they delivered a more experimental set than that one at Reading – ‘Long Island City Here I Come’, for example, was adorned with a samba-style rhythm. During ‘Trinidad’, frontman Cameron Winter also seemed to improvise some new lyrics from the perspective of someone who’s discovered their husband is cheating on them: “I found my husband’s fucking cellphone / He says it’s for games… Fucking bastard.”

There were many high-energy moments, too, though. A mosh-pit formed for ‘Trinidad’, with the crowd also singing along to ‘I See Myself’ and getting up on each other’s shoulders for ‘Au Pays Du Cocaine’.

Winter kept crowd banter to a minimum, though he did comment: “There are a lot of you. Good Lord! Thank you for coming.” At one point, he attempted to talk to a fan on the front row, before eventually giving up because he couldn’t hear them. “This is a very one-sided conversation,” he joked. “I hold all the cards.”

Drummer Dominic DiGesu wore a t-shirt that proclaimed: “Save the George Tavern.” This was a reference to a campaign to prevent the east London pub from closing due to noise complaints and a nearby housing development. The venue was declared ‘saved’ in 2019 , but its owner has since warned that the fight to reopen its adjacent nightclub, Stepney’s, continues.