photo by Sam Crowston

As Wrexham quartet The Royston Club prepare to release their highly anticipated second album ‘Songs For The Spine’, due out August 8th, the band have recently unveiled the record's latest single Cariad. Written in the wake of a breakup, the track captures raw emotion, building through soaring choruses and stirring instrumentation as it gradually swells toward a euphoric climax in what's a blistering catharsis. Guitarist and main songwriter Ben Matthias says, “‘Cariad’ was written very soon after a breakup, when I still believed I was in love with the girl and was struggling to come to terms with the relationship ending. I had an almost obsessive attachment to the memory of our time together and those memories seemed inescapable, constantly confronting me with what I had lost. In the first half of the song I surrender the relationship to the past and ‘let the air run out’, letting it die. However the outro betrays this acceptance as I admit, ‘I still wake up with things to tell you’ and ask to feel her touch again, ‘just once again.’ It’s a song that, to me, encapsulates just how messy love, sex, memory, and self-worth can be.” Take a listen for yourselves below.

The Royston Club’s summer touring continues with festival highlights including main stage sets at the Reading and Leeds Festivals plus a run of intimate record store dates. Their subsequent UK headline tour is already almost sold-out months in advance, with limited tickets for some shows still available HERE. 

JULY
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
5th - Nottingham, Rough Trade (intimate album release event - matinee - JUST ADDED)
5th - Nottingham, Rough Trade (intimate album release event - evening - SOLD OUT)
6th - Bristol Rough Trade (intimate album release event - matinee - JUST ADDED)
6th - Bristol Rough Trade (intimate album release event - evening - SOLD OUT)
8th - Liverpool, Jacaranda (intimate album release event - matinee - SOLD OUT)
8th - Liverpool, Jacaranda (album release event - evening - SOLD OUT)
12th - London, Rough Trade East (intimate album release event - matinee - JUST ADDED)
12th - London, Rough Trade East (intimate album release event - evening - SOLD OUT)
13th - Brighton, Resident (intimate album release event - SOLD OUT)
15th - Hardwick Calling
22nd - Reading Festival
23rd - Leeds Festival
24th -- Rock En Seine

OCTOBER - HEADLINE TOUR
16th - Brighton, Concorde 2 (SOLD OUT)
17th - Bristol, Electric (SOLD OUT)
18th - Birmingham, O2 Institute (SOLD OUT)
23rd - Manchester, Academy 1 (SOLD OUT)
24th - Newcastle, O2 City Hall
25th - Glasgow, Barrowland Ballroom (FINAL TICKETS)
31st - London, O2 Forum Kentish Town (FINAL TICKETS)

NOVEMBER - HEADLINE TOUR
1st - Sheffield, Octagon (SOLD OUT)
15th - Paris, Supersonic Records
18th - Amsterdam, Paradiso Noord (Tolhuistuin)
19th - Cologne, Blue Shell
20th - Berlin, Maschinenhaus
22nd - Hamburg, Nochtspeicher

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