The Royston Club return with new song ‘Shivers’

Wrexham risers The Royston Club have shared their new single ‘Shivers’, the first track from the band to arrive in 2025.

It’s the first taste of a new era after their 2023 album Shaking Hips and Crashing Cars, and one which sees the band expand the dimensions of their sound. It’s an indie anthem, ostensibly, but a love song too.

Guitarist and main songwriter Ben Matthias says, “‘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.”

The track follows their recent song ‘The Patch Where Nothing Grows’ and was produced by Rich Turvey (Blossoms, Rachel Chinouriri) at Kempston Street Studio in Liverpool.

No doubt they’ll be airing the track tonight when they deliver an intimate date at Omeara ahead of a huge summer for the band. Check out their 2025 schedule in full 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