Westside Cowboy: UKNY Interview

Westside Cowboy released their debut single, "I Never Met Anyone I Thought I Could Really Love (Until I Met You)," in early November 2024  — and not quite two years later, the Manchester quartet's first album, It Goes On, made a big debut at No. 5 on the UK album charts following its August 21 release. 

Over that period, from debut single to album, Westside Cowboy toured continuously, solidifying their formidable chops supporting bands like Geese, Black Country, New Road, and English Teacher and selling out their own headlining gigs too. Two EPs bolstered the buzz around these four friends: 2025's This Better Be Something Great (produced by English Teacher's Lewis Whiting) and earlier this year, So Much Country 'Till We Get There. It's been a dizzying marathon for Westside Cowboy, barely covering 18 months. (Little wonder they desperately needed coffee before they arrived at London's The Kings Arms in Fitzrovia for our interview.)

Ask all four songwriters and vocalists —  Reuben Haycocks, Jimmy Bradbury, Aoife Anson O'Connell and Paddy Murphy just what this wild ride has been like and they're still trying to make sense of it all themselves. On "UKNY" tonight at 7 p.m., a conversation with Westside Cowboy, recorded in late August, just days after It Goes On waltzed into the world.

Jimmy, Aoife, Reuben and Paddy discussed what went into It Goes On and working with producer Loren Humphrey (Geese, Cameron Winter, julie). They also confessed to what they thought was a disastrous New York debut at Night Club 101 last December (they must be pretty happy about getting a take two at Music Hall of Williamsburg on October 6).

[Recorded: 8/26/26. Engineered and produced by Kara Manning]