Westside Cowboy have announced their debut album ‘It Goes On’ with the “mad, ’70s rock” single ‘Kick Stones (The Boys)’. Listen and find all the details below.
The Manchester quartet and NME 100 alumni are set to release their highly-anticipated album on August 21 via Island Records, following the success of their EPs ‘This Better Be Great’ and ‘So Much Country ‘Till We Get There’.
“Put simply, we wanted to make an album for our younger selves, one that reminds us of all the bodies of work that made us fall in love with music,” the band said of their upcoming record. “We wanted the music to be instant, concise, and honest to us as people today.
“There will be plenty of time in the future for the sprawling triple album with horns and string sections but for now, it’s young music made by some young(ish) people,” they added. “We want to make songs that are lean and imperfect. We’re really proud of it and we hope that you enjoy it.”
To celebrate, they’ve shared the first teaser of the album, ‘Kick Stones (The Boys)’ – whose recording was inspired by a live version of The Velvet Underground’s ‘What Goes On’. “We loved the way it felt to play, but we thought we couldn’t record it like that or people would think we wanted to be a stadium rock band,” bassist/vocalist Aoife Anson O’Connell said of the song.
“We always thought, if we can pull this off it could be really fun,” drummer Paddy Murphy added. “Taking this mad, ‘70s rock thing but then having it played by a bunch of scrawny kids.”
Take a listen to ‘Kick Stones (The Boys)’ and see the full tracklist for ‘It Goes On’ below:
Westside Cowboy’s ‘It Goes On’ tracklisting is:
‘Kick Stones (The Boys)’
‘Paper Chains’
‘Dobro’
‘Well Done Kid, You Did It’
‘Worried Age’
‘Big Wheels’
‘Pin Up Boys’
‘Coyote’
‘Patchwork’
‘Take My Leaving As I Love You’
‘You Could Have Died There On The Dancefloor’
Westside Cowboy are set to embark on their biggest UK and European headline tour this autumn, including a huge show at London’s O2 Kentish Town Forum on December 2. They’ll also conclude the run with a homecoming gig at the Albert Hall in Manchester on December 5.
Other stops include Glasgow, Newcastle, Sheffield, Leeds, Birmingham, Southampton, Brighton and Bristol.
The band will also be playing a slew of festivals this year including Reading and Leeds, Green Man, Bilbao BBK and Latitude.
Tickets are on sale now – get yours here and see the full touring schedule below:
Westside Cowboy’s European and UK tour dates for 2026 are:
OCTOBER
28 – Doornroosje, Nijmegen, Netherlands
29 – Paradiso THT, Amsterdam, Netherlands
30 – Helios37, Cologne, Germany
NOVEMBER
01 – Voxhall, Aarhus, Denmark
05 – Lille Vega, Copenhagen, Denmark
06 – Lido, Berlin, Germany
07 – Bike Jesus, Prague, Czechia
09 – Arci Bellezza, Milan, Italy
10 – Exil, Zurich, Switzerland
12 – Botanique, Brussels, Belgium
13 – Petit Bain, Paris, France
14 – L’Aéronef, Lille, France
24 – St Luke’s, Glasgow
25 – NUSU, Newcastle
26 – Crookes Social Club, Sheffield
27 – Irish Centre, Leeds
29 – XOYO, Birmingham
30 – The 1865, Southampton
DECEMBER
01 – Chalk, Brighton
02 – O2 Forum Kentish Town, London
04 – Electric Bristol, Bristol
05 – Albert Hall, Manchester
NME spoke to the band for The Cover this February, where they told us about the makings of their debut single ‘I’ve Never Met Anyone I Thought I Could Really Love (Until I Met You)’.
“For us, Westside was all about bringing the fun back into the music generally,” vocalist/guitarist Reuben Haycocks said. “In a songwriting sense, we were taking everything a little less seriously. As soon as we stopped putting loads of pressure on ourselves to make something great, the stuff that came out was much more authentically us.”
