Cameron Winter, best known as the frontman of Brooklyn’s art-rock agitators Geese, will step out alone for a headline show at the Sydney Opera House Concert Hall on Monday 16 February 2026. The performance marks Winter’s first Australian appearance with material from his 2024 solo debut Heavy Metal, a record already being called an instant classic.
Heavy Metal—written on the move in abandoned basements, cab back seats and late-night public spaces—has been praised for its jagged intimacy and surreal storytelling. Where Geese thrash with wiry post-punk charge, Winter retreats into something starker, poetic and unnervingly tender. Pitchfork hailed its “casual virtuosity and soul-scouring catharsis,” while GQ tagged it a “hidden gem” and “modern classic.”
Drawing comparisons to Nick Cave, Leonard Cohen and Tom Waits, Winter’s writing collapses existential dread into bruised balladry, spiked with dark humour. “At just 22, Cameron Winter burst onto the scene and crafted a multi-layered debut of beauty in Heavy Metal, known to leave audiences in tears with its tenderness and intensity,” said Sydney Opera House Head of Contemporary Music, Ben Marshall. “Usually performed in churches, his heart-stirring songs will find a perfect home in the Concert Hall – our own temple of sound.”
Winter’s path to this moment has been anything but straightforward. Raised in Park Slope, Brooklyn, he turned to music after repeated concussions cut short his time in sports. With his high school friends, he formed Geese, who went on to sign with Partisan Records in 2020 and release four albums: A Beautiful Memory (2018), Projector (2021), 3D Country(2023) and Getting Killed (2025).
Now, with his solo debut, Winter has staked his claim beyond Geese’s post-punk borders, crafting a sound both deeply personal and universally haunting. Sydney will be among the first to witness it in full flight.
EVENT DETAILS
WHO: Cameron Winter
WHEN: Monday 16 February 2026, 8pm
WHERE: Concert Hall, Sydney Opera House
TICKETS: From $79.90 + booking fee // sydneyoperahouse.com // +61 2 9250 7777
Insiders pre-sale: 10am AEST, Tuesday 30 September
What’s On pre-sale: 10am AEST, Wednesday 1 October
GP on sale: 10am AEST, Friday 3 October
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