Geese Frontman Cameron Winter Debuts Secret Solo Material in New Orleans

Cameron Winter has performed a surprise, unannounced set of new solo material in New Orleans.

The frontman of The Geese took the stage unexpectedly at BJ’s Lounge in the Bywater district, treating fans to an evening of entirely new compositions.

According to Setlist.fm, Winter debuted three songs during the performance: one titled ‘Prostitute,’ a second featuring the lyrics “I put the gun back under my bed and drove slowly into town,” and a third known only by the lyrics “I suppose”—which a Reddit user reported Winter deemed “too fucking long.”

Another Reddit user added that Winter’s new music was “all pretty stylistically similar to ‘Heavy Metal’,” explaining: “There were a few absurd lines that made the crowd laugh, and he played one new one that was absolutely gorgeous.”

In addition to the new material, Winter also performed ‘Emperor XIII In Shades,’ which he debuted at his Live at Carnegie Hall show, and ‘I Don’t Wanna,’ which he premiered at the Durham Performing Arts Centre in May 2025. He also reportedly played ‘Love Takes Miles’ and ‘Try As I May’ from his debut solo album, ‘Heavy Metal’.

Though Winter requested fans not to film any footage from the show, outlet Pigeons and Planes captured a snippet of ‘Love Takes Miles’:

Cameron Winter performed a surprise solo set at local New Orleans bar BJ’s Lounge last night. pic.twitter.com/46nWuf3ptj

— Pigeons & Planes (@PigsAndPlans) September 23, 2026

Winter recently confirmed he was working on new solo music, telling Rolling Stone that the process has been “hard.”

“I used to write songs with interesting, difficult chords, but now it’s like I-IV-V until the cows come home,” Winter said. “It’s actually getting worse and worse. It’s like the fucking rut is getting deeper and deeper, because then I do a ii chord, and I’m just like, ‘Ew. What are you, fucking Keith Jarrett, you piece of shit?’”

He added that performing new songs for others has not helped the process, adding: “I stopped doing it because I think it just is not useful for me. I think most people that I’ve played it to furrow their brows and ask, ‘So is this going on the record? This is one of those songs?’ I don’t think anyone has really liked it.”

Winter’s debut solo album ‘Heavy Metal’ came out in 2024, and since then he’s released ‘Getting Killed’ with Geese, which was named NME‘s Number One record of 2025.

He has previously played a secret charity show back in January under the name Chet Chomsky.

The set took place at the TV Eye venue in Queens in support of the Olive Grove Initiative, a mutual aid group providing support and aid to families from Gaza.

Meanwhile, Winter is due to release his live album ‘Live At Carnegie Hall’ on October 9 via Partisan Records and Play It Again Sam.

A concert film directed by Paul Thomas Anderson will also start screening across America starting in November.

Elsewhere, NME caught up with Winter just before the release of ‘Heavy Metal,’ where the New York singer discussed the process of writing the album under mounting pressure and notoriety.

“In retrospect, a lot of people seem to think I went in with the sole purpose of making something as far away from common sense and current culture as possible, but I just tried to do whatever excited me,” he told NME.

“A big note I received was that it’s ‘too heavy and you’re going to scare people away,’ but I don’t want it to scare people away. I feel like when I listen to Tom Waits or Leonard Cohen, they’re far more depressed than I am, yet their songs never feel devoid of hope. They are very affirming to life.”

He added: “Life is depressing sometimes and rather than trying to avoid talking about or referencing depressing aspects of life, their version of uplifting is to look them dead in the face. To me, that is healthier and more appealing than avoidance.”

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