Westside Cowboy announce Whelan’s show to celebrate debut album It Goes On

Westside Cowboy have announced a show at Whelan’s in Dublin on September 24.

The performance will celebrate the release of their debut full-length album, It Goes On, out August 21.

The record was produced by Loren Humphrey, who has worked with Geese, Cameron Winter and Wunderhorse, at Greenmount Studios in Leeds.

The Manchester-based four-piece consists of Jimmy Bradbury and Reuben Haycocks on vocals and guitar, Aoife Anson O’Connell on vocals and bass and Paddy Murphy on drums.

The group are influenced by “early rock n’ roll: Lonnie Donegan, The Beatles and The Velvet Underground,” said Murphy. They released their debut single, ‘I’ve Never Met Anyone I Thought I Could Really Love (Until I Met You)’, in November 2024.

Westside Cowboy was formed in 2023, when Haycocks, Anson O'Connell and Murphy hit it off during freshers' week at the University of Manchester. They then met Bradbury at their local music shop, where he proposed they start a band.

“We were hanging out in the music shop and Jimmy just asked, ‘Do you want to start a band called Westside Cowboy?’ He had the name already picked out and we said, ‘Yeah!’ It was that easy," the band recalled during an interview with Hot Press in April.

In 2025, they won Glastonbury’s Emerging Talent Competition, leading to the release of their debut EP, This Better Be Something Great.

Winning the competition, Haycocks said, was “the first moment that we realised we really were a band.”

Since then, they’ve toured with Black Country, New Road and Geese. Later this year, they’ll play shows at London’s O2 Kentish Town Forum and Manchester’s Albert Hall.

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.

Tickets for the Whelan's show go on sale Wednesday, August 19 at 10 am here.