The Brooklyn band also played songs by Suicide and The Velvet Underground
By Max Pilley 21st November 2025
Geese. Credit: Mark Sommerfield
Geese played a covers-only set in New York this week, as well as songs from their ‘Getting Killed’ album on ‘From The Basement’ – watch below.
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The acclaimed Brooklyn band and former NME Cover stars released their latest album in September, and as part of their current North American tour, they stopped off at Manhattan’s Blue Note Jazz Club on Monday night (November 17).
AdvertisementThe entire set was made up of cover versions – including a slew of Stooges tracks such as ‘Down On The Street’, ‘1969’ and ‘Search And Destroy’, as well as The Velvet Underground’s ‘I’m Waiting For The Man’, Leonard Cohen’s ‘Suzanne’ and Pink Floyd’s ‘Interstellar Overdrive’.
They followed that up with an appearance on Nigel Godrich’s long-running ‘From The Basement’ series on Wednesday (November 19), where they played seven tracks from ‘Getting Killed’, including ‘Husbands’, ‘Half Real’ and ‘Au Pays Du Cocaine’.
Check out footage from the Blue Note and the full From The Basement show here:
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Geese played at the Blue Note Jazz Club on November 17:
‘Down On The Street’ (The Stooges) ‘Loose’ (The Stooges) ‘TV Eye’ (The Stooges) ‘I Wanna Be Your Dog’ (The Stooges) ‘Ghost Rider’ (Suicide) ‘I’m Waiting For The Man’ (The Velvet Underground) ‘1969’ (The Stooges) ‘1970’ (The Stooges) ‘Search And Destroy’ (The Stooges) ‘Fun House’ (The Stooges) ‘Suzanne’ (Leonard Cohen) ‘Interstellar Overdrive’ (Pink Floyd)
Geese played on ‘From The Basement’
‘Trinidad’ ‘Husbands’ ‘Islands Of Men’ ‘Half Real’ ‘100 Horses’ ‘Au Pays Du Cocaine’ ‘Bow Down’
Geese had already played several of the covers – including ‘I’m Waiting For The Man’ and ‘Down On The Street’ – at a recent show in San Diego, while they also recently went viral with a cover of the New Radicals’ ‘You Get What You Give’ for BBC Radio 1’s Live Lounge.
AdvertisementThe band also recently announced a UK headline tour for 2026, which will kick off in Bristol’s Electric on March 20 and take in Glasgow, Leeds and Manchester, before rounding out at London’s O2 Forum Kentish Town on March 26. They will also play at Glasgow’s Barrowland Ballroom on August 26 and at London’s Troxy on September 1. Find any remaining tickets for the shows here.
Following their run of spring dates in the UK, the group will make appearances at Coachella 2026 and next year’s edition of Primavera Sound Barcelona.
In a glowing five-star review of ‘Getting Killed’, NME wrote: “There’s so much going on in this album that it feels like it would have been easy for the five-piece to lose sight of the bigger picture, yet for all its abrupt shifts and intricate details, ‘Getting Killed’ somehow doesn’t ever feel like there’s too much at play or like its creators aren’t in complete control.
“Instead, this is a band living up to their reputation as exhilaratingly free-spirited, not so much proving they deserve all the accolades and fervent fanaticism bubbling around them but demanding it.”
