Courtney Love loves Geese but compares their “gatekeeping elder millenial troll fans” to “13-year-old Swifties”
After previously admitting to being “Geese-curious”, Courtney Love has finally come round fully to the New York five-piece.
Last month, Love first spoke about Geese when she opened up about her curiosity about the group amid the hype that continues to swirl around them, and said, “I feel like their team might be like elder millennial, you know, Brooklyn people? Like, very Girls-y.”
Now, in a new Instagram post, Love has again hit out at the “elder millennial” loyal followers of the band, but admitted that she is now firmly also a Geese fan, sharing, “Geese-curious has turned into Geese-blossoming-appreciation.”
She went on to compare their sound to a mix of Daniel Johnston and The Rolling Stones, while, despite saying frontman Cameron Winter “sounds like a 600-year-old man in the best way”, stating that Winter is a “fucking, seriously good lyricist”.
Love, who now lives in London, also shared that she will be in the audience for, presumably, their concert on March 25th at the Kentish Town Forum.
However, Love is still not convinced about their fans, adding, “I want to talk a little bit about their fans. Their gatekeeping elder millennial troll fans. I love my trolls but the Geese trolls are like another kettle of fish.”
She jokingly added, “I feel like it’s 1990 and I’m trying to impress Sonic Youth again, which is great. I don’t know. I’m a cool old lady who likes a band, get off my back.”
Love then said that some fans have told her to “leave them alone”, behaviour that she likened to having a pack of “13-year-old Swifties coming for me”.
The former Hole vocalist said more updates on her infatuation with Geese will be on the way, likely after she catches them live later this week.
Before they play in London, Geese will perform at the O2 Victoria Warehouse in Manchester tonight, which comes after shows in Leeds, Bristol and Glasgow. Primal Scream have since given their seal of approval after Geese paid homage to them with a cover of ‘Movin’ On Up’ in the Scottish city.
In a review of their show in Bristol, Far Out praised the Geese audience, writing, “From my view, there was barely a phone in sight. Winter’s elusive stature ultimately prevented anyone from getting the bitesize clips that you may think baseless Geese fans would want to post to their peers, but I quickly learned that such a fan doesn’t even exist. Limbs were in the air, heads were rolling on shoulders, and voices were suitably strained. If this was supposed to be a cliché, why did no one care what they looked like?”
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