Watch Geese’s Cameron Winter play new unreleased solo songs at intimate NYC pop-up show

13 March, 2025

Cameron Winter of Geese performs onstage at Mohawk during the 2022 SXSW Conference and Festivals on March 17, 2022 in Austin, Texas. (Photo by Lorne Thomson/Redferns)

Geese‘s Cameron Winter treated a crowd to a couple of unreleased solo songs at an intimate pop-up show.

In collaboration with the clothing brand Basketcase, Winter took over a Soho storefront in NYC this past Monday (March 10). The night saw the musician sit in front of a grand piano in a spacious room that was empty aside from a few clothing racks and rugs on the floor.

The first track of the night came in the form of the unreleased track titled ‘If You Turn Back Now’, which featured lyrics such as “If you turn back now I might carry you home / and if you got good news / I might just hang up the phone.”

Winter then treated attendees to stripped back renditions of his songs ‘Try As I May’, ‘The Rolling Stones’, ‘Drinking Age’, ‘$0’ and more from his debut solo LP ‘Heavy Metal’.

To wrap up the night, he played one of his debut solo double A side singles ‘Take It With You’ and two other unreleased songs titled ‘Please’ and ‘Long Island City Here I Come’ as his encore. At the time of writing, it is unclear whether the unreleased tracks are more solo material or potential upcoming Geese songs.

Cameron Winter’s Basketcase NYC Soho pop-up setlist was: 

1. ‘If You Turn Back Now’
2. ‘Try as I May’
3. ‘The Rolling Stones’
4. ‘Drinking Age’
5. ‘Cancer of the Skull’
6. ‘$0’
7. ‘Take it With You’
8. ‘Please’
9. ‘Long Island City Here I Come’

Previously speaking to NME, Winter opened up about tackling the creative space freely without acknowledging the pressures that may come. “I like doing what I want to do, and ideally, I don’t care about what anyone expects or wants from me, but it’s not a hostile thing or anything like that to me, and that’s what I think is a big misunderstanding that often is had between me and the people who I work with or who listen to the music,” he said.

He continued: “A big note I got on this was that it’s ‘too heavy and you’re going to scare people away’ and I don’t want it to scare people away. I feel like when I listen to Tom Waits or Leonard Cohen or those sort of sad sacks, they’re more depressed than I am by a long shot, but I never feel like their songs are devoid of hope or anything. I feel like they are very affirming to life.

“Life is depressing sometimes and instead of trying to avoid talking about or referencing depressing aspects of life, their version of uplifting is to look depressing things dead in the face and that to me is healthier and more appealing than just avoiding it.”

In other news, Winter is set to perform on Jimmy Kimmel Live! on March 26.

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