Westside Cowboy have announced their second EP ‘So Much Country ‘Till We Get There’, and shared the lead single ‘Don’t Throw Rocks’.
The Manchester-based four piece and winners of the 2025 Glastonbury Emerging Talent Competition released their debut EP ‘This Better Be Something Great’ in August via Nice Swan Recordings/Heist Or Hit, which was produced by Lewis Whiting of English Teacher.
Now, the NME 100 alumni have announced that they have signed with Island Records imprint Adventure Recordings and shared details of their follow-up EP ‘So Much Country ‘Till We Get There’.
The five-track release will come out on January 16 and they have given fans the first taster with ‘Don’t Throw Rocks’, which makes use of delicious, nostalgic guitar tones that alternate between twinkle and wail.
The band have said: “Jimmy’s [Bradbury, guitar/vocals] lyrics on this deal a lot in time and change, and how it, more often than not, moves out of our control and without niceties. We wanted the music to reflect this too. With each section, we wanted to add a new gear, to increase the intensity until it couldn’t be held onto anymore. I guess that’s where the outro comes in. This felt like the natural first single for ‘So Much Country…’, we all kinda knew once we’d heard it back.”
‘So Much Country ‘Till We Get There’ tracklist:
- ‘Strange Taxidermy’
- ‘Can’t See’
- ‘Don’t Throw Rocks’
- ‘The Wahs’
- ‘In The Morning’
The band are currently out on the road around Europe opening for Black Country, New Road, while they have a string of headline dates around the UK and Ireland in November and January, featuring their biggest show to date at London’s Scala on January 28. Find any remaining tickets for all shows here.
Westside Cowboy will play:
OCTOBER 2025
12 – Amsterdam, Paradiso*
13 – Amsterdam, Paradiso*
14 – Cologne, Gloria*
15 – Berlin, Astra Kulturhaus*
17 – Copenhagen, Vega*
18 – Johanneshov, Fallan*
19 – Oslo, Sentrum Scene*
21 – Hamburg, Mojo Club*
22 – Prague, Roxy*
23 – Lausanne, Les Docks*
25 – Milan, Magazzini Generali*
26 – Lyon, Epicerie Moderne*
28 – Brussels, Ancienne Belgique*
NOVEMBER 2025
1 – Cardigan, Other Voices
7 – Paris, Pitchfork Paris
8 – Manchester, Albert Hall**
18 – Norwich, Arts Centre
19 – Birmingham, Sunflower Lounge
21 – Cardiff, Clwb Ifor Bach
22 – Portsmouth, Kola
25 – Birkenhead, Future Yard
26 – Hebden Bridge, The Trades Club
27 – York, The Crescent
28 – Edinburgh, Cabaret Voltaire
JANUARY 2026
28 – London, Scala
29 – Manchester, Gorilla
31 – Dublin, Grand Social
FEBRUARY 2026
2 – Glasgow, King Tuts
3 – Leeds, Brudenell Social Club
4 – Nottingham, Bodega
6 – Bristol, The Exchange
7 – Brighton, The Hope and Ruin
8 – Oxford, The Bullingdon
*with Black Country, New Road
**with Sprints
The band spoke to NME earlier this year about winning the Glastonbury Emerging Talent Competition. “It feels amazing but it’s really hard to process,” vocalist Aoife Anson O’Connell told NME moments after being crowned winner. “We’re so lucky, we’ve had the most insane luck for a year and it’s just happened again. We’re the most jammy people in the world, maybe I should start gambling!”
“We’ve had so many achievements that mean so much to us in such a short space of time but this means the most,” she added. “It means so much to everyone in the band, I just vividly remember growing up watching the Glastonbury sets on the telly.”
