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 albumâSongs For The Spineâ on August 8th.
They launch the album alongside the new single âGlued To The Bedâ 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. Itâs 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 âShiversâ and âThe Patch Where Nothing Growsâ also signpost their creative evolution. âSongs For The Spineâ 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, âAll 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. Thereâs the classic songs about our relationships with our girlfriends, but on the flipside thereâs even a song about me going home to Wrexham and feeling guilty because Iâd forgot that the speed limits had changed in Wales, which shows how long it had been since Iâd last been there!â
âSongs For The Spineâ tracklist:
âShiversâ
âThe Patch Where Nothing Growsâ
âCrowbarâ
âGlued To The Bedâ
âCariadâ
â30/20â
âSpinningâ
âThrough The Cracksâ
âCurses & Spitâ
âThe Ballad of Glen Campbellâ
Premiered  by Huw Stephens at 6 Music, the albumâs new single âGlued To The Bedâ 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 songâs emotional turmoil: love can be thrilling, dark and ultimately disappointing – but inevitably weâre still compelled to want to give it another shot.
Ben adds, âWith ‘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.â
âSongs For The Spineâ is now available to pre-order / pre-save HERE. The album will be available on standard vinyl, CD, cassette and digital formats. The bandâs 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 12â 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 bandâs 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 atLiverpool Sound City; a sweaty and instantly sold-out underplay at Londonâs Omeara; three rammed low-key homecoming shows in Wrexham; and a set as part of Wrexham FCâs 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