Trey Anastasio and Father John Misty both sat in with Goose at New York’s Radio City Music Hall last night. The show was the Connecticut-bred quintet’s second show at the iconic venue; Friday’s Radio City engagement featured appearances by longtime Antibalas member and former Arcade Fire touring contributor Stuart Bogie on tenor saxophone, Dave Nelson on trombone, and D. James Goodwin, who produced their latest album Dripfield, on guitar.
Last night’s Goose show opened with an acoustic set, which featured the group’s first known cover of Arcade Fire’s “Wake Up”–which the indie-rock icons famously played with David Bowie at Radio City in 2005–as well as Bruce Springsteen’s “Atlantic City” in the middle of a set of originals. During Goose’s set second, Father John Misty emerged to help Goose through his own “I’m Writing a Novel.” Goose started covering the popular Fear Fun track during their creative pandemic streams in 2020 and have since added it to their repertoire. During a set-closing “Creatures,” multi-instrumentalist Peter Anspach also took a cue from Tame Impala, who he saw at Radio City according to a recent Relix cover story, and other rock acts and walked over to one of the venue’s side balconies to play during the song’s jam.
