Westside Cowboy have announced their debut EP ‘This Better Be Something Great’

Manchester quartet Westside Cowboy are set to release their debut EP ‘This Better Be Something Great’ on 8th August via Nice Swan Recordings and Heist or Hit, alongside sharing new single ‘Alright Alright Alright’.

The new track, produced by English Teacher’s Lewis Whiting, comes as the group prepare for their Glastonbury Festival appearances, where they will open the Woodsies stage on 29th June as winners of the Emerging Talent Competition.

“This song was the first original thing we ever played as a band, before we had any real ambition for the project to reach the ears of anyone outside of that room,” the band say. “It is a punk song about a cowboy, and if anyone can take away any more from it than that, consider us impressed.”

The four-piece, comprising Reuben Haycocks, James Bradbury, Aoife Anson O’Connell, and Paddy Murphy, began as informal sessions in Murphy’s bedroom. Their sound combines lo-fi alternative rock with elements of country and traditional rock and roll, which they have dubbed ‘Britainicana’.

The dates in full read:

JUNE
25-29 Glastonbury Festival, Somerset, UK

JULY
18 Midi Festival, Hyères, France
25 Latitude, Suffolk, UK
26 Truck Festival, Oxford, UK
27 On The Beach, Brighton, UK

AUGUST
2 Humber Street Sesh, Hull, UK
9 YES (Pink Room), Manchester, UK
16 Green Man Festival, Brecon Beacons, UK
28 End Of The Road Festival, Dorset, UK
30 Manchester Psych Fest, Manchester, UK

SEPTEMBER
2 Button Factory, Dublin, Ireland
4 New Century Hall, Manchester, UK
6 Oran Mor, Glasgow, UK
7 Project House, Leeds, UK
8 SWX, Bristol, UK
10 CHALK Live, Brighton, UK
11 Electric Brixton, London, UK
12 Electric Brixton, London, UK
27 Float Along Festival, Sheffield, UK

OCTOBER
9 Casino de Paris, Paris, France
10 Stereolux, Nantes, France
12 Paradiso, Amsterdam, Netherlands
13 Paradiso, Amsterdam, Netherlands
14 Gloria, Cologne, Germany
15 Astra Kulturhaus, Berlin, Germany
17 VEGA, Copenhagen, Denmark
18 Fållan, Stockholm, Sweden
19 Sentrum Scene, Oslo, Norway
21 Mojo Club, Hamburg, Germany
22 Roxy, Prague, Czech Republic
23 Les Docks, Lausanne, Switzerland
25 Magazzini Generali, Milan, Italy
26 Epicerie Moderne, Lyon, France
28 Ancienne Belgique, Brussels, Belgium