{"id":2033368,"date":"2026-07-08T08:00:07","date_gmt":"2026-07-08T05:00:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/?p=2033368"},"modified":"2026-07-08T08:00:07","modified_gmt":"2026-07-08T05:00:07","slug":"little-grandad-the-alt-country-band-speeding-towards-stardom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/?p=2033368","title":{"rendered":"Little Grandad: the alt-country band speeding towards stardom"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[analyse_image type=&#8221;featured&#8221; src=&#8221;https:\/\/www.nme.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/little-grandad-credit-xander-lewis.jpg&#8221;]<\/p>\n<article id=\"template-id-2947849\" class=\"post-2947849 tdb_templates type-tdb_templates status-publish post\">\n<div id=\"tdi_65\" class=\"tdc-zone\">\n<div class=\"tdc_zone tdi_66  wpb_row td-pb-row\">\n<div id=\"tdi_67\" class=\"tdc-row stretch_row\">\n<div class=\"vc_row tdi_68  wpb_row td-pb-row\">\n<div class=\"vc_column tdi_70  wpb_column vc_column_container tdc-column td-pb-span12\">\n<div class=\"wpb_wrapper\">\n<div class=\"td_block_wrap tdb_breadcrumbs tdi_71 td-pb-border-top td_block_template_2 tdb-breadcrumbs \" data-td-block-uid=\"tdi_71\">\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><span>Features<\/span><span>Music Interviews<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"td_block_wrap tdb_title tdi_72 tdb-single-title td-pb-border-top td_block_template_2\" data-td-block-uid=\"tdi_72\">\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<h1 class=\"tdb-title-text\">Little Grandad: the alt-country band speeding towards stardom<\/h1>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"td_block_wrap tdb_single_subtitle tdi_73 td-pb-border-top td_block_template_2\" data-td-block-uid=\"tdi_73\">\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<p>The buzzy London four-piece have been non-stop since they played their first gig a year ago \u2013 and some of them are still learning their instruments<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"td_block_wrap tdb_single_author tdi_75 td-pb-border-top td_block_template_2 tdb-post-meta\" data-td-block-uid=\"tdi_75\">\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<div class=\"tdb-author-name-wrap\"><span class=\"tdb-author-by\">By<\/span> Spencer Hughes<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"td_block_wrap tdb_single_date tdi_76 td-pb-border-top td_block_template_2 tdb-post-meta\" data-td-block-uid=\"tdi_76\">\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><time class=\"entry-date updated td-module-date\" datetime=\"2026-07-08T09:00:07+01:00\">8th July 2026<\/time><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"tdi_77\" class=\"tdc-row stretch_row_1400 td-stretch-content\">\n<div class=\"vc_row tdi_78  wpb_row td-pb-row\">\n<div class=\"vc_column tdi_80  wpb_column vc_column_container tdc-column td-pb-span12\">\n<div class=\"wpb_wrapper\">\n<div class=\"td_block_wrap tdb_single_featured_image tdi_81 tdb-content-horiz-left td-pb-border-top td_block_template_2\" data-td-block-uid=\"tdi_81\">\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<figure><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"696\" height=\"442\" class=\"entry-thumb\" src=\"https:\/\/www.nme.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/little-grandad-credit-xander-lewis-696x442.jpg\" alt=\"Little Grandad\" title=\"little-grandad-credit-xander-lewis\"><figcaption class=\"tdb-caption-text\">Little Grandad credit: Xander Lewis<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"tdi_82\" class=\"tdc-row\">\n<div class=\"vc_row tdi_83  wpb_row td-pb-row\">\n<div class=\"vc_column tdi_85  wpb_column vc_column_container tdc-column td-pb-span12\">\n<div class=\"wpb_wrapper\">\n<div class=\"td_block_wrap tdb_single_content tdi_86 td-pb-border-top td_block_template_2 td-post-content tagdiv-type\" data-td-block-uid=\"tdi_86\">\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<p><strong class=\"dropcap\">L<\/strong>ittle Grandad just can\u2019t stop gigging. The London alt-country band were in the middle of their first real time off since their first gig last July \u2013 a break enforced by their manager, mind you \u2013 during which they had jetted off on separate holidays, when they got a call offering them a last-minute cancellation slot at Open Air St. Gallen Festival in Switzerland. So now here they are, chatting to <em>NME<\/em> from an Airbnb in the Alpine town of Herisau.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe said early doors we wanted to say yes to every gig ever,\u201d says guitarist Ned Ashcroft. \u201cThat\u2019s the ethos, yeah,\u201d agrees Jack Lower, who plays bass and co-fronts the band with his younger brother Harry (the quartet is finished by drummer James Brennan). \u201cEven this one \u2013 we were like, \u2018We\u2019re on holiday, but yes, we\u2019ll all fly back for it.\u2019\u201d \u201cWe\u2019ll travel far and wide just to play thirty minutes,\u201d says Harry.<\/p>\n<div class=\"td-a-ad id_inline_ad0 id_ad_content-horiz-center\"><span class=\"td-adspot-title\">Advertisement<\/span><\/div>\n<p>That dedication to graft has taken Little Grandad to \u201c50 or 60\u201d gigs so far this year, they reckon. \u201cWe\u2019re gonna hit a hundred before September,\u201d says Ashcroft. At the time of our conversation, they only have two songs out; a third, the sprawling \u2018Babe, We\u2019ve Run Out Of Time\u2019 followed last night (July 7). Considering their first gig wasn\u2019t even a year ago, there\u2019s an unbelievable amount of buzz around them; they\u2019ve been booked for festival after festival, played a Radio 6 live session at Maida Vale, and toured up and down the country. \u201cWe weren\u2019t ever thinking that we\u2019d end up in Switzerland within a year,\u201d Jack says. \u201cIt wasn\u2019t really supposed to be anything, and then we kinda were just like, \u2018Oh, shit.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The genesis of Little Grandad came when Harry returned to the family home after finishing a business degree. He\u2019d been quietly writing songs since lockdown, and no longer had any desire to do anything with his degree; the envelope containing his final certificate is still unopened somewhere in his bedroom.<\/p>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Little Grandad - Babe, We've Run Out of Time (Visualiser)\" width=\"696\" height=\"522\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/jkCem12ycjY?feature=oembed&amp;enablejsapi=1\" frameborder allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<p>\u201c[Not opening it] was kind of a principle, \u2018cause when I finished the degree I was already heading in the direction of music,\u201d he says. \u201cIt\u2019s like, the day that he needs it is a sad day,\u201d adds Jack, who had also moved home around the same time after a breakup. The brothers had been pretty different growing up and weren\u2019t particularly close, but once under the same roof again, they started going to gigs together and developed a shared music taste for the first time, worshipping the trifecta of Bob Dylan, Leonard Cohen and Neil Young.<\/p>\n<p>The brothers, their friend Brennan, and Ashcroft, whom they had only recently met, began messing around in a rehearsal room once a week at the beginning of last year. None of them had been in a band before. \u201cI couldn\u2019t even play an instrument,\u201d Jack says. \u201cNed was like, \u2018We\u2019re not getting another member, you\u2019re gonna have to learn bass.\u2019\u201d Nor had Ashcroft, who started in orchestral music, really played electric guitar before. \u201cI didn\u2019t actually own a guitar \u2019til like, a month ago,\u201d he says. \u201cI\u2019m still paying off my bass on Klarna,\u201d Jack adds.<\/p>\n<div class=\"td-a-ad id_inline_ad1 id_ad_content-horiz-center\">\n<h5 class=\"taboola-mid-article-title\">Recommended<\/h5>\n<\/div>\n<p>And yet, as you\u2019ll know if you\u2019ve caught them live or watched one of the many videos circulating of their set, they\u2019re really, really good. You can put it down to Harry and Ashcroft\u2019s heartfelt songwriting, their powerful, passionate live performances, or the tightness they\u2019ve honed over the hundred-and-something gigs they\u2019ve played; whatever it is, they win people over. Early on, they immediately made a crucial fan in Radio 6 DJ Steve Lamacq.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think he saw us once and then he saw us four times that week,\u201d Jack says. \u201cHe\u2019d follow us round the country \u2013 we\u2019d be in Brighton, and Steve would be there.\u201d They had no music out when he asked them to do a live session for his show. \u201cHe was like, \u2018No one\u2019s ever done it without music [released] before, but I feel like you can do it.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>\u201cThe song is the most important thing. Glamming it up with too many solos isn\u2019t our thing\u201d \u2013 Jack Lower<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><strong class=\"dropcap\">Y<\/strong>ou can\u2019t talk about Little Grandad\u2019s success without mentioning the growing wave of British Americana bands popping up around the country. The likes of Westside Cowboy, Divorce and Brown Horse (the former two of which have graced <em>NME<\/em>\u2019s Cover) have also broken out with sounds inspired by alt-country greats like Wilco and Silver Jews. What\u2019s going on there, we ask?<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m convinced it\u2019s escapism,\u201d Jack says. \u201cWhen [people] listen to that [they\u2019re] not in the UK \u2013 which for much of the year can be a bit depressing.\u201d Do they worry about getting lost in the churn? \u201cNo, I think everyone pushes each other,\u201d says Jack. \u201c[And] it doesn\u2019t feel like people are copying; it feels like everyone found their own route to get there. Everyone\u2019s doing a slightly different stamp on it.<\/p>\n<div class=\"td-a-ad id_inline_ad2 id_ad_content-horiz-center\"><span class=\"td-adspot-title\">Advertisement<\/span><\/div>\n<p>\u201cI think there is just a wider movement towards songs again. It\u2019s like, we wanna tell you a story through this song, and that\u2019s gonna be done with guitars,\u201d he continues. \u201cAt the very start we were like, \u2018We want to serve the song.\u2019 That\u2019s the most important thing, and glamming it up with too many solos and stuff around it, that\u2019s not our thing.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>With a characteristic eagerness, the band are already working on their first album. \u201cWe were like, we\u2019re gonna skip the EP \u2013 let\u2019s go for the album,\u201d Jack says. Yet they\u2019re aware they\u2019re still learning how to be a band, and really, they\u2019re still getting to know each other. \u201cEven me and Jack are still fairly new to being friends,\u201d Harry points out. \u201cIt\u2019s gonna be interesting in a couple years\u2019 time, \u2018cause it\u2019ll be further developed and [we\u2019ll] feel even more comfortable.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Besides that, the long-term goal, as you might imagine, is more gigs. \u201cI wanna be gigging this much when I\u2019m in my forties,\u201d says Harry. \u201cWe want like, the Bob Dylan Never Ending Tour vibe,\u201d Jack adds. \u201cYou don\u2019t stop; people still wanna sing the songs with you when you can barely sing them yourself. That is the ultimate aim. There is no other way.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>Little Grandad\u2019s \u2018Babe, We\u2019ve Run Out Of Time\u2019 is out now via Communion.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"td_block_wrap tdb_single_tags tdi_87 td-pb-border-top td_block_template_2\" data-td-block-uid=\"tdi_87\">\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<ul class=\"tdb-tags\">\n<li><span>Related Topics<\/span><\/li>\n<li>Indie<\/li>\n<li>Little Grandad<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"tdi_88\" class=\"tdc-row stretch_row_content td-stretch-content\">\n<div class=\"vc_row tdi_89  wpb_row td-pb-row tdc-element-style\">\n<div class=\"vc_column tdi_91  wpb_column vc_column_container tdc-column td-pb-span12\">\n<div class=\"wpb_wrapper\">\n<div class=\"td-block td-a-rec td-a-rec-id-custom-spot tdi_92 td_block_template_2\"><span class=\"td-adspot-title\">Advertisement<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"tdi_93\" 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td-fix-index\">\n<p><strong class=\"dropcap\">L<\/strong>ittle Grandad just can\u2019t stop gigging. The London alt-country band were in the middle of their first real time off since their first gig last July \u2013 a break enforced by their manager, mind you \u2013 during which they had jetted off on separate holidays, when they got a call offering them a last-minute cancellation slot at Open Air St. Gallen Festival in Switzerland. So now here they are, chatting to <em>NME<\/em> from an Airbnb in the Alpine town of Herisau.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe said early doors we wanted to say yes to every gig ever,\u201d says guitarist Ned Ashcroft. \u201cThat\u2019s the ethos, yeah,\u201d agrees Jack Lower, who plays bass and co-fronts the band with his younger brother Harry (the quartet is finished by drummer James Brennan). \u201cEven this one \u2013 we were like, \u2018We\u2019re on holiday, but yes, we\u2019ll all fly back for it.\u2019\u201d \u201cWe\u2019ll travel far and wide just to play thirty minutes,\u201d says Harry.<\/p>\n<div class=\"td-a-ad id_inline_ad0 id_ad_content-horiz-center\"><span class=\"td-adspot-title\">Advertisement<\/span><\/div>\n<p>That dedication to graft has taken Little Grandad to \u201c50 or 60\u201d gigs so far this year, they reckon. \u201cWe\u2019re gonna hit a hundred before September,\u201d says Ashcroft. At the time of our conversation, they only have two songs out; a third, the sprawling \u2018Babe, We\u2019ve Run Out Of Time\u2019 followed last night (July 7). Considering their first gig wasn\u2019t even a year ago, there\u2019s an unbelievable amount of buzz around them; they\u2019ve been booked for festival after festival, played a Radio 6 live session at Maida Vale, and toured up and down the country. \u201cWe weren\u2019t ever thinking that we\u2019d end up in Switzerland within a year,\u201d Jack says. \u201cIt wasn\u2019t really supposed to be anything, and then we kinda were just like, \u2018Oh, shit.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The genesis of Little Grandad came when Harry returned to the family home after finishing a business degree. He\u2019d been quietly writing songs since lockdown, and no longer had any desire to do anything with his degree; the envelope containing his final certificate is still unopened somewhere in his bedroom.<\/p>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Little Grandad - Babe, We've Run Out of Time (Visualiser)\" width=\"696\" height=\"522\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/jkCem12ycjY?feature=oembed&amp;enablejsapi=1\" frameborder allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<p>\u201c[Not opening it] was kind of a principle, \u2018cause when I finished the degree I was already heading in the direction of music,\u201d he says. \u201cIt\u2019s like, the day that he needs it is a sad day,\u201d adds Jack, who had also moved home around the same time after a breakup. The brothers had been pretty different growing up and weren\u2019t particularly close, but once under the same roof again, they started going to gigs together and developed a shared music taste for the first time, worshipping the trifecta of Bob Dylan, Leonard Cohen and Neil Young.<\/p>\n<p>The brothers, their friend Brennan, and Ashcroft, whom they had only recently met, began messing around in a rehearsal room once a week at the beginning of last year. None of them had been in a band before. \u201cI couldn\u2019t even play an instrument,\u201d Jack says. \u201cNed was like, \u2018We\u2019re not getting another member, you\u2019re gonna have to learn bass.\u2019\u201d Nor had Ashcroft, who started in orchestral music, really played electric guitar before. \u201cI didn\u2019t actually own a guitar \u2019til like, a month ago,\u201d he says. \u201cI\u2019m still paying off my bass on Klarna,\u201d Jack adds.<\/p>\n<div class=\"td-a-ad id_inline_ad1 id_ad_content-horiz-center\">\n<h5 class=\"taboola-mid-article-title\">Recommended<\/h5>\n<\/div>\n<p>And yet, as you\u2019ll know if you\u2019ve caught them live or watched one of the many videos circulating of their set, they\u2019re really, really good. You can put it down to Harry and Ashcroft\u2019s heartfelt songwriting, their powerful, passionate live performances, or the tightness they\u2019ve honed over the hundred-and-something gigs they\u2019ve played; whatever it is, they win people over. Early on, they immediately made a crucial fan in Radio 6 DJ Steve Lamacq.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think he saw us once and then he saw us four times that week,\u201d Jack says. \u201cHe\u2019d follow us round the country \u2013 we\u2019d be in Brighton, and Steve would be there.\u201d They had no music out when he asked them to do a live session for his show. \u201cHe was like, \u2018No one\u2019s ever done it without music [released] before, but I feel like you can do it.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>\u201cThe song is the most important thing. Glamming it up with too many solos isn\u2019t our thing\u201d \u2013 Jack Lower<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><strong class=\"dropcap\">Y<\/strong>ou can\u2019t talk about Little Grandad\u2019s success without mentioning the growing wave of British Americana bands popping up around the country. The likes of Westside Cowboy, Divorce and Brown Horse (the former two of which have graced <em>NME<\/em>\u2019s Cover) have also broken out with sounds inspired by alt-country greats like Wilco and Silver Jews. What\u2019s going on there, we ask?<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m convinced it\u2019s escapism,\u201d Jack says. \u201cWhen [people] listen to that [they\u2019re] not in the UK \u2013 which for much of the year can be a bit depressing.\u201d Do they worry about getting lost in the churn? \u201cNo, I think everyone pushes each other,\u201d says Jack. \u201c[And] it doesn\u2019t feel like people are copying; it feels like everyone found their own route to get there. Everyone\u2019s doing a slightly different stamp on it.<\/p>\n<div class=\"td-a-ad id_inline_ad2 id_ad_content-horiz-center\"><span class=\"td-adspot-title\">Advertisement<\/span><\/div>\n<p>\u201cI think there is just a wider movement towards songs again. It\u2019s like, we wanna tell you a story through this song, and that\u2019s gonna be done with guitars,\u201d he continues. \u201cAt the very start we were like, \u2018We want to serve the song.\u2019 That\u2019s the most important thing, and glamming it up with too many solos and stuff around it, that\u2019s not our thing.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>With a characteristic eagerness, the band are already working on their first album. \u201cWe were like, we\u2019re gonna skip the EP \u2013 let\u2019s go for the album,\u201d Jack says. Yet they\u2019re aware they\u2019re still learning how to be a band, and really, they\u2019re still getting to know each other. \u201cEven me and Jack are still fairly new to being friends,\u201d Harry points out. \u201cIt\u2019s gonna be interesting in a couple years\u2019 time, \u2018cause it\u2019ll be further developed and [we\u2019ll] feel even more comfortable.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Besides that, the long-term goal, as you might imagine, is more gigs. \u201cI wanna be gigging this much when I\u2019m in my forties,\u201d says Harry. \u201cWe want like, the Bob Dylan Never Ending Tour vibe,\u201d Jack adds. \u201cYou don\u2019t stop; people still wanna sing the songs with you when you can barely sing them yourself. That is the ultimate aim. There is no other way.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>Little Grandad\u2019s \u2018Babe, We\u2019ve Run Out Of Time\u2019 is out now via Communion.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>[analyse_source url=&#8221;https:\/\/www.nme.com\/features\/music-interviews\/little-grandad-babe-weve-run-out-of-time-interview-radar-3955531&#8243;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[analyse_image type=&#8221;featured&#8221; src=&#8221;https:\/\/www.nme.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/little-grandad-credit-xander-lewis.jpg&#8221;] FeaturesMusic Interviews Little Grandad: the alt-country band speeding towards stardom The buzzy London four-piece have been non-stop since they played their first gig a year ago \u2013 and some of them are still learning their instruments By Spencer Hughes 8th July 2026 Little Grandad credit: Xander Lewis Little Grandad just can\u2019t stop [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[226,78],"class_list":["post-2033368","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","tag-crawlmanager","tag-nme-com"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2033368","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2033368"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2033368\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2033368"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2033368"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2033368"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}