SHAKY KNEES 2026 – DAY 1
Posted by Liz and John Attaway, 9/19/26
Photo by Roger Ho
We’re back at the all-weekend Shaky Knees Festival being held at Piedmont Park in Midtown Atlanta. The first day highlights included browsing the grounds, enjoying several acts from Geese to Turnstile to Danny Elfman, and soaking in the hot day with friends. Did you attend Shaky Knees Friday night?
Here are our thoughts on the acts we saw last night:
Geese
We’ve heard of them from several people that we needed to see them from friends to random people at other concerts, so we caught the last half of the show. Geese is an American rock band out of New York City. At first, I felt like the lead singer, Cameron Winter, was channeling John Lennon with his flowing vocals and round glasses, but they had so much more hard rock in their repertoire. They have a good mix of rock riffs, classic rock base with psychedelic and jam mixed in just for fun. I had a friend tell me they cover the Talking Heads and other greats. And at the end of the set, they sang “I’ve got a b*omb in my car.” I really liked how hard it was.
Turnstile
I was the most impressed by Turnstile and I had not even planned to attend their show until one of our friends wanted to go. Turnstile is a fun American Rock band out of Baltimore, Maryland. When I was listening to them, I immediately thought they had Rage against the Machine vibes with some of the same riffs and notes. John hit the nail on the head though and suggested they sound a lot like Jane’s Addiction. It is a mix of both bands and I’m here for it. One of my friends called them Jane against the machine. I like it!
Danny Elfman
What was that? When I heard Danny Elfman was playing, I was thinking Oingo Boingo and all musical movie and TV scores since that’s really all I know about him. What we got was a mish mash of rock songs that sounded a lot like Rob Zombie meets Iggy Pop with crazy visuals. Then, he mixed in some of his favorite compositions from Nightmare before Christmas, Beetlejuice Beetlejuice, Spiderman, and even The Simpsons. It was a wild ride.
On to day 2.
