Royston Club to release 'Songs for the Spine' album

Leader Live

26-05-2025

After achieving a number 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 8.
They will 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.
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.
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.
Royston Club guitarist Ben Matthias said: '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!'
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.'
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'Songs For The Spine' is now available to pre-order / pre-save HERE.
The album will also be available on standard vinyl, CD, cassette and digital formats.
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; an 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 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.
Their 'Songs For The Spine' tracklist is as follows;