The Royston Club Announces New Album, Single and UK Headline Tour

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Photo by Sam Crowston

NEW ALBUM ‘SONGS FOR THE SPINE’ TO BE RELEASED ON AUGUST 8TH PRE-ORDER / PRE-SAVE HERE

FEATURING THE NEW SINGLE ‘GLUED TO THE BED’ - WATCH THE VIDEO HERE

AUTUMN UK AND EUROPEAN HEADLINE TOUR ALSO ANNOUNCED - SUMMER FESTIVALS INCLUDE READING, LEEDS, LATITUDE, TRNSMT AND MANY MORE

After achieving a #16 chart breakthrough with their debut album, The Royston Club are now targeting far bigger ambitions with the news that they will release their new album ‘Songs For The Spine’ on August 8th. They launch the album alongside the new single ‘Glued To The Bed’ and also announce details of their biggest UK headline tour to date, which features their largest London show so far at the O2 Forum Kentish Town.

A great debut album will only get you so far. It’s what you do next that really counts. And The Royston Club are now excelling on every front. Recent sold-out live shows have demonstrated the growing scale and fervent passion of their devoted following, a primarily teenage/early twenties audience with a near equal male/female split that recalls the early years of The 1975. Vitally, the recent singles ‘Shivers’ and ‘The Patch Where Nothing Grows’ also signpost their creative evolution. ‘Songs For The Spine’ builds on the sonic DNA of their debut, but is bigger, more experimental and more heartfelt too. Its stories meld the personal with the universal in a way that will inspire further fan intensity.

The album was produced by Rich Turvey (Blossoms, Rachel Chinouriri), who helped the band unlock some of the raw, natural energy that powers their live show. Together they created a record which is the sound of a band taking their chance to hit the next level, grabbing it with both hands and refusing to let go.

Guitarist Ben Matthias says, “All of these songs are about people and places we love. These people and these places are the things that keep you standing through whatever happens. There’s the classic songs about our relationships with our girlfriends, but on the flipside there’s even a song about me going home to Wrexham and feeling guilty because I’d forgot that the speed limits had changed in Wales, which shows how long it had been since I’d last been there!”

Premiered today by Huw Stephens at 6 Music, the album’s new single ‘Glued To The Bed’ feels like the natural link between their debut and the new record. An instant earworm of a guitar riff gets the action underway before pounding rhythms support a melody somehow both gritty and sweet. That sonic soundbed reflects the song’s emotional turmoil: love can be thrilling, dark and ultimately disappointing - but inevitably we’re still compelled to want to give it another shot.

Ben adds, “With 'Glued To The Bed', I wanted to write about the cynicism towards love that heartbreak can bring, the bittersweet memory of a relationship and the raw aftermath of a breakup. It's about the push and pull between needing to forget and wanting to hold on to what was lost, about how grief can become your entire atmosphere and distort your sense of self.

Looking back, I see a lot of what I wrote as a defense mechanism after being hurt. I dismiss love as this pretentious, performative thing and in the chorus I sound afraid, pleading for the next relationship not to leave me in the same state.”

‘Songs For The Spine’ is now available to pre-order / pre-save HERE. The album will be available on standard vinyl, CD, cassette and digital formats. The band’s official store offers an exclusive splatter vinyl, signed print and merch bundles; the Dinked Edition clear vinyl with gold yolk features an alternate cover, a signed 12” print and a numbered sticker; and select independent stores and HMV have a limited edition green vinyl.

UK fans who pre-order the album from the band’s official store will receive access to a pre-sale for tour tickets. This will open at 10am BST on Tuesday, May 27th and will remain live until remaining tickets go on general sale from 10am on Thursday, May 29th.

2025 has already seen The Royston Club - completed by Tom Faithfull (vocals/guitar), Dave Tute (bass) and Sam Jones (drums) - play select live shows: a big headline set at Liverpool Sound City; a sweaty and instantly sold-out underplay at London’s Omeara; three rammed low-key homecoming shows in Wrexham; and a set as part of Wrexham FC’s celebrations following their promotion to the Championship.

Their upcoming tour, listed below, includes major festival dates across the UK and Europe, and shows as guests to big names The Lathums, Bloc Party and Travis, before their autumn headline tour gets underway.

MAY

24th - Neighbourhood Weekender

25th - Tunes in the Castle Festival

31st - Vestrock Festival

JUNE

20th - Utrecht, Ekko

21st - PinkPop Festival

JULY

5th - Musiques En Stock Festival

10th - Manchester, Castlefield Bowl (with Bloc Party)

11th - TRNSMT Festival

12th - Leeds, Millennium Square (with The Lathums)

19th - Llandudno, Venue Cymru Arena (with Travis)

25th - Latitude Festival

27th - Tramlines

AUGUST

2nd - Kendal Calling

15th - Hardwick Calling

22nd - Reading Festival

23rd - Leeds Festival

OCTOBER - HEADLINE TOUR

16th - Brighton, Concorde 2

17th - Bristol, Electric

18th - Birmingham, O2 Institute

23rd - Manchester, Academy 1

24th - Newcastle, O2 City Hall

25th - Glasgow, Barrowland Ballroom

31st - London, O2 Forum Kentish Town

NOVEMBER - HEADLINE TOUR

1st - Sheffield, Octagon

15th - Paris, Supersonic Records

18th - Amsterdam, Paradiso Noord (Tolhuistuin)

19th - Cologne, Blue Shell

20th - Berlin, Maschinenhaus

22nd - Hamburg, Nochtspeicher

‘Songs For The Spine’ tracklist:

1/ ‘Shivers’

2/ ‘The Patch Where Nothing Grows’

3/ ‘Crowbar’

4/ ‘Glued To The Bed’

5/ ‘Cariad’

6/ ‘30/20’

7/ ‘Spinning’

8/ ‘Through The Cracks’

9/ ‘Curses & Spit’

10/ ‘The Ballad of Glen Campbell’