Westside Cowboy Announce Whelan’s Show to Celebrate Debut Album It Goes On
By WESTSIDE COWBOY
Announce Headline Show + Debut Album
It Goes On
24 September 2026 | Whelan’s, Dublin
Tickets: €25.00 Including Booking Fees
From www.singularartists.ie and Ticketmaster.ie
Singular Artists proudly presents Westside Cowboy live at Whelan’s, Dublin on Thursday, 26 September 2026.
Tickets on sale Wednesday, 19 August at 10am from www.singularartists.ie.
It Goes On is the debut album from Manchester-based four-piece Westside Cowboy, released on 21st August 2026 and produced by Loren Humphrey (Geese, Cameron Winter and Wunderhorse).
In an age of algorithms, Westside Cowboy are pure-spirited proof of the magic that can only come from human connection. Just three years on from forming in Manchester, starting a band for the fun of it without so much as a plan to even play a gig, the quartet, Jimmy Bradbury (vocals, guitar), Reuben Haycocks (vocals, guitar), Aoife Anson O’Connell (vocals, bass) and Paddy Murphy (drums), have crafted perhaps the year’s most exciting debut by simply figuring out what feels good and following it into the horizon.
Westside Cowboy swiftly became a place for concise, straight-hitting ideas influenced by “early rock’n’roll: Lonnie Donegan, The Beatles and The Velvet Underground,” says Paddy. Jimmy remembers spending the bulk of 2023 playing the first five songs of an Elvis Presley album on repeat. “When we started the band, people would ask who was in it and we’d be like, ‘We got this guy who works in a guitar shop, only listens to Elvis and dresses like Marty McFly, you know, that guy!’” Aoife laughs.
Since those first shows, Westside Cowboy have found themselves notching up an increasingly wild list of live milestones. Last year, they won Glastonbury Festival’s prestigious Emerging Talent Competition, leading them to an opening slot on the televised Woodsies Stage. Since then, they’ve toured with Black Country, New Road and Geese while later this year they’ll play their biggest headline gigs to date, including stop-offs at London’s O2 Kentish Town Forum and Manchester’s Albert Hall. Winning the Glastonbury slot, says Reuben, felt like “the first moment that we realised we really were a band”. Now, with the making of It Goes On, Westside Cowboy have underlined exactly what kind of band they want to be.
Recorded with producer Loren Humphrey, whose credits include Geese, Cameron Winter and Wunderhorse, at Greenmount Studios in Leeds over a period that saw them thinking on their feet and remodelling their production into an even more directly energetic new form.
In a time of terrifying division and conflict, Westside Cowboy always try to focus on what unites us. Early on in the group’s life, they co-created No Band Is An Island: a Manchester-based collective putting on fundraising nights to spotlight both local artists and important issues via speakers from charities and direct action groups. “I think we wanted to engage with politics in a way that felt more impactful beyond the music,” notes Aoife. In their current video for “Kick Stones (The Boys)”, they called upon the skills of FC United, a splinter team that started when Manchester United were sold to an American corporation. “They’re very community minded and they have a similar atmosphere to what we want to be,” says Reuben. “Their ethos is ‘making friends not millionaires’.”
Additional information and links:
- Tickets on sale Wednesday, 19 August at 10am from www.singularartists.ie.
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