Goose, photo by Bill Kelly — Expectations were high going into Goose’s Spring Tour, and the ascendant indie-jam quartet’s return to the stage has exceeded them so far. Just over a week into the run that will set the tone for another long year on the road, following 2025’s non-stop touring and two celebrated studio albums, the band have kept the spark alive with nightly variations on their core catalog. With their shows in the Sunshine State over the weekend, the band mixed it up by returning to some rare covers from an eclectic range of influences.
After Thursday’s “SUCK IT STORM” show, Goose rolled into Clearwater, Fla.’s The BayCare Sound on Friday night and launched another two-set show with “Big Modern!,” the title track from their recently announced sixth studio album. Immediately afterward, the band brought up Father John Misty’s ”I’m Writing a Novel,” then raced through an expansive jam on both sections of “Seekers on the Ridge” before their second-ever treatment of Future Islands’ “Peach,” which they’d debuted last September, establishing a theme of reviving cuts once thought to be one-offs. In Friday’s second set, they paid tribute to Peter Gabriel through his 1986 So essential “In Your Eyes.”
On Saturday, Goose began their two-night booking at St. Augustine, Fla.’s St. Augustine Amphitheater with the fan favorite “Dr. Darkness.” In the throes of a heavily segued first set, the band veered from their rarer “indie-groove version” of Everything Must Go standout “Your Direction” into their second cover of David Byrne and Brian Eno’s “Strange Overtones,” which they’d debuted at last year’s Goosemas celebration. Highlights from their second set included a “Bob Don” with the carefully composed outro and a simmering take on Bob Seger’s “Hollywood Nights,” preceding an expansive encore of “Empress of Organos” and “This Old Sea.”…