With a sound somewhere between playful indie rock and driving alternative, The Royston Club are one of the most promising young bands from Wales. Even before the release of their debut album "Shaking Hips and Crashing Cars" (2023), the band played at the Great Escape Festival in England and toured the UK. Their songs "Mrs Narcissistic" and "Mariana" together have more than 12 million streams on Spotify and made the band known beyond the borders of the UK for their indie sound. touring Europe for the first time in 2023, The Royston Club sold out almost all of their tour stops. Two years later, the band is back on the European mainland and will be touring Germany again in November. On their Songs For The Spine Tour, The Royston Club will be coming to Cologne, Berlin and Hamburg in November.
Singer and guitarist Tom Faithfull, guitarist Ben Matthias and bassist Dave Tute have known each other since their school days. in 2017, the friends started making indie music together and in 2019 found a comrade-in-arms in drummer Sam Jones, with whom they founded The Royston Club in Wrexham. The band quickly established themselves with a loyal local fan community and released their debut single "Shawshank" as a demo version in March 2019. The quartet struck a chord with their calm indie rock and, following the release of the single "Kerosene", generated greater attention for the first time in 2020 with the single "Mariana". Alongside "Believe It or Not", the single served as a foretaste of their debut EP "This State I'm In", which was also released in 2020. With "Mrs Narcissistic", the band celebrated their most successful single to date in November 2020 and revealed a playful indie sound, which was further consolidated after further singles on the EP "lying here, wasting away", released in 2021. in 2022, the song "Old Man's Knees" was released before The Royston Club returned with "Blisters" and four more singles after the lockdowns to prepare their fans for the release of their debut album. "Shaking Hips and Crashing Cars" was released on June 2, 2023 and was received overwhelmingly positively by the press. With "The Patch Where Nothing Grows" (2024) and "Shivers" (2025), the four Welshmen have now opened the next chapter in their band's history and are building on an energetic rock sound that stands out from the band's early work with musical maturity.