The Royston Club - Shaking Hips and Crashing Cars [CD]

Format: CD
Catalogue No.: M9457UKCD
Barcode: 5060732662353
Release Date: 02 Jun 2023
Genre: Indie

The Royston Club are the Wrexham band tipped by Gigwise as “the new band from Wales most likely to do a Catfish”.

Despite only being active for two years, the young four-piece have already completed two UK headline tours totalling 30 dates, selling around 8,000 tickets in the process. Their early releases have been supported by BBC 6Music (Steve Lamacq, Chris Hawkins, Tom Robinson), Radio 1, Radio X (X-Posure playlist) and BBC Wales (BBC Wales A-List, Artist of the Week with Huw Stephens including three days of on-air interviews, and Janice Long live session), among others.

The Royston Club are singer and guitarist Tom Faithfull, guitarist Ben Matthias, bassist Dave Tute and drummer Sam Jones.

1. The Deep End
2. Shallow Tragedy
3. Mrs Narcissistic
4. I’m a Liar
5. Mariana
6. 52
7. Cold Sweats
8. Blisters
9. Missed the Boat (Jumped in the Sea)
10. A Tender Curiosity
11. Believe It or Not
12. Cherophobe

The Royston Club are the Wrexham band tipped by Gigwise as “the new band from Wales most likely to do a Catfish”.

Despite only being active for two years, the young four-piece have already completed two UK headline tours totalling 30 dates, selling around 8,000 tickets in the process. Their early releases have been supported by BBC 6Music (Steve Lamacq, Chris Hawkins, Tom Robinson), Radio 1, Radio X (X-Posure playlist) and BBC Wales (BBC Wales A-List, Artist of the Week with Huw Stephens including three days of on-air interviews, and Janice Long live session), among others.

They've amassed over 10 million streams on Spotify alone, with monthly listeners consistently about 100,000, and their latest single was added to multiple editorial playlists including New Music Friday, All New Rock and Hot New Bands.

They were among the first acts to be announced for SXSW 2022 in Austin, Texas and spent the summer showcasing at festivals such as Leeds, Y Not and Neighbourhood.

The band will support The Academic on tour in February 2023 and will join Two Door Cinema Club at Castlefield Bowl in July. With a busy festival season planned, the band will then undertake a headline UK / EU tour in the Autumn.

The Royston Club are singer and guitarist Tom Faithfull, guitarist Ben Matthias, bassist Dave Tute and drummer Sam Jones.

Radio
"Melodically gifted aren't they? Lads with guitars, those sort of out there critics would say that it's all been done before but I think when you bring enough of ur own spirit to the melodies then something special can definitely still happen" - Adam Walton, BBC Introducing Wales

"Such a brilliant sounding single!" - Huw Stephens BBC Radio Wales

“Keeping the energy high, new one here from Wrexham outfit The Royston Club, This is Blisters, I like it a lot!” - Shell Zenner, Amazing Radio

"Right, let's get into this! All the way from Wales, big support from Steve Lamacq, this is Blisters on Radio 1" - Gemma Bradley, BBC 1 Introducing

“This was by The Royston Club, the 4 piece from Wrexham! We've played them a handful of times before on this show but they're now gearing up for the release of their debut album” - Steve Lamacq, BBC Radio 6 Music

“I want to take you to The Royston Club, no it's not like an actual place it's like a frame of mind” - Amy Lame, BBC Radio 6 Music

"It is The Royston Club with Blisters on X-Posure on Radio X’ - John Kennedy Radio X
"Let's continue our travels now as we take you to North Wales, United Kingdom. And reintroduce you to a young band who certainly are making waves across Wales and beyond, they go under the guise of The Royston Club here's they're latest it's called Blisters!" - Sat Bisla, Passport Approved Radio

"That is such a brilliant track! The Royston Club, Blisters!” - Beth Elfyn, BBC Introducing Wales

"Okay we've got a little treat for you then from our Welsh A-List this is The Royston Club and the track is called Blisters. The Royston club are an Indie band from Wrexham and they were Huw Stevens Artists Of The Week a couple of weeks ago and this is great." - Eleri Sion, BBC Radio Wales

"Let me play you some new Welsh music now from an indie band in Wrexham. They were Huw Stevens' artist of the week a couple of weeks ago. They are Tom, Ben, Dave and Sam, they're called The Royston Club and this is their brand new track, this is called Blisters." - Vicky Blight, BBC Radio Wales

"This is wonderful, glad to see this on the Radio Wales playlist at the moment, the Radio Wales A-List. From new welsh artist The Royston Club and Blisters." - Bethan Elfyn BBC BBC Wales

"The Royston Club and that is called Blisters and that is on the Welsh A-List!" - Scott Quinell BBC Radio Wales