After their breakout success with Shaking Hips and Crashing Cars, which stormed the Official Album Chart at #16 in 2023, The Royston Club are primed to send chills through the music scene once again.
The Welsh quartet has dropped their first new single of 2025, “Shivers,” dramatically expand on their earlier indie-rock foundations, with waves of distorted, melodic guitar crashing down like a 2025 update of Hüsker Dü’s iconic sound, only to fade away into a minimalist bass groove. This loud/quiet/loud dynamic creates a sense of urgency and unpredictability, amplified by Tom Faithfull’s emotive, raw vocals all of which offers a fresh take on the inventive spirit of bands like The Maccabees and Bloc Party.
Guitarist and primary songwriter Ben Matthias explains the song’s inspiration: “‘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.”
Produced by Rich Turvey (Blossoms, Rachel Chinouriri), “Shivers” was recorded at Kempston Street Studio in Liverpool — the same space where the band honed their debut album.
The success of their previous single, “The Patch Where Nothing Grows,” which saw airplay support across 6 Music and Radio X, as well as a #4 position on the Official Vinyl Singles Chart, has set the stage for “Shivers” to propel the band even further into the spotlight. With their next steps already planned, The Royston Club is gearing up for a thrilling summer ahead.
The band’s UK tour kicks off with a sold-out show at Omeara in London on April 24th, followed by headline slots at festivals like Sound City in Liverpool and Neighbourhood Weekender in May. They’ll also be performing at iconic festivals such as PinkPop and TRNSMT, before taking to the stage with Bloc Party, The Lathums, and Travis later in the summer. Check out their full tour schedule below:
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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