Mac DeMarco and Geese frontman Cameron Winter have been spotted attempting karaoke together in Japan. Watch the footage below.
Footage of the pair delivering a spin on a track by Japanese singer-songwriter Haruomi Hosono (aka Harry Hosono) has emerged online.
According to Pigeons & Planes, DeMarco and Winter visited Hosono when the Geese singer brought his solo ‘Heavy Metal’ tour to Japan recently. DeMarco was out in Japan at the same time in support of his sixth and latest album, ‘Guitar’.
The brief video shows Winter attempting to sing in Japanese at a bar, as DeMarco stands beside him. Check out the clip here:
DeMarco has previously covered Hosono’s song ‘Honey Moon’, and the pair met in 2019. More recently, DeMarco recorded a version of the 78-year-old artist’s track ‘Boku Wa Chotto’ from his debut solo album, ‘Hosono House’ (1973), as part of a tribute compilation.
At the time, DeMarco explained in a statement: “Hosono is my hero, I love all of his music, I am eternally at his every beck and call, it is my honour to be a part of this compilation. I recorded this cover in Joe Bird’s guest room in Paris, August 2023. I hope my Japanese pronunciation isn’t too horrible.”
Speaking to NME last month, DeMarco touched on the hype currently surrounding winter and his band Geese. “It seems cool!” he said.
“I have a thing when I see someone like Cameron or Mk.gee and it’s like, ‘I was there once. The hype was coming for me… Have fun, but it gets weirder!’ I think also, when there’s something that’s that popping, the hype makes it so I don’t know how to consume it right now.”
Meanwhile, former NME Cover stars Geese won the International Group award at the BRITs 2026 last Saturday (February 28). During his acceptance speech, drummer Max Bassin said: “I just want to say, free Palestine, fuck ICE, RIP Mani, let’s go Geese.”
Geese released their acclaimed third album, ‘Getting Killed’, last autumn, with the collection earning a glowing five-star review from NME. The LP went on to be named by NME as the best album of 2025. The track ‘Taxes’, meanwhile, landed at Number Two in our 50 best songs of the year feature.
This summer, Geese, Winter and DeMarco will perform at Primavera Sound in Barcelona. Geese are set to embark on a UK headline tour later this month, with Mac DeMarco scheduled to play three shows in London in June. He’ll then headline this year’s End Of The Road in September.
Find any remaining tickets here (Geese) and here (Mac DeMarco).
Elsewhere in his recent chat with NME, DeMarco discussed the ever-changing atmosphere that ‘Guitar’ was bringing to his gigs. “Some nights I want to create a loving, fun, community vibe,” he said. “Other nights, I want it to be kind of scary. It just all depends on the mood.”
He continued: “The set is definitely less rockin’ than it used to be, but I think people are into it! I don’t know if ‘mature’ is the right word, but the music is more involved. We’re not doing cover songs anymore. I have a lot of songs, and I try to cover most of the bases of what people want to hear, plus maybe some other stuff where there’ll be one person in the audience who’s like, ‘Wow, they’re doing that song? That’s weird!’”
