The city of Wrexham has had plenty to shout about in recent years. And while the glamour of a Hollywood takeover may take the majority of headlines, there’s been a local band making waves in their home town and beyond…
The Royston Club‘s 2023 debut album “Shaking Hips & Crashing Cars” was wall-to-wall indie gold, and the follow-up single “The Patch Where Nothing Grows” was a further statement of intent last year.
Now, they are back with their first new music of 2025 – the second single of chapter two, “Shivers”.
Another elevation in sound, “Shivers” builds on the raw indie debut with a more developed, heavier sound, proving that The Royston Club have no plans to rest on breakthrough successes.
Guitarist and songwriter Ben Matthias commented: “‘Shivers’ is a love song. I wrote it in the seaside village of Beaumaris, where the majority of this album was written. My girlfriend had made the trip to North Wales to spend a night with me there in the middle of a week writing, the next day she left again and I wrote this song.
“I wanted to portray how quickly and almost morbidly time can ‘slip away’ when you’re spending time with the one you love. Days can feel like hours when you’re with the right person and memories become intrinsically entwined to the point where time spent without them feels wasted.
“It’s the first song I’ve written in a minor key which I can only attribute to all The Cure I was listening to at the time and it was arranged in a much more patient way than anything else we’d worked on up to this point.”
The new track was once again produced by Rich Turvey (Blossoms, Rachel Chinouriri) and was recorded at the prolific Kempston Street Studios in Liverpool.
“Shivers” is accompanied by a video directed by Sam Crowston (watch at the bottom of this article).
Tonight, The Royston Club take their acclaimed live show to the intimate Omeara in London; a show that sold out instantly upon release
The Welsh band will then spend the summer playing some major festivals in both the UK and abroad, as well as select outdoor shows as guests for the likes of The Lathums, Bloc Party and Travis.
Their 2025 tour dates are as follows…
APRIL
24th – London, Omeara (SOLD OUT)
MAY
3rd – Liverpool, Sound City (HEADLINERS)
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)
24th-27th – Latitude Festival
27th – Tramlines
AUGUST
2nd – Kendal Calling
15th – Hardwick Calling
22nd – Reading Festival
23rd – Leeds Festival
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