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The Royston Club

Tailoring a brand of whimsical but uplifting indie rock, the Royston Club are a Wrexham, North Wales-formed quartet favoring melodic guitar lines and anthemic choruses, not unlike their contemporaries the Lathums. Lead vocalist and rhythm guitarist Tom Faithfull, lead guitarist Ben Matthias, and bass player Dave Tute bonded over their fondness acts such as the Libertines, the Strokes, and Kings of Leon while at secondary school. They started making their own music in 2017 and were eventually introduced to Sam Jones by a mutual friend. Jones joined on drums in 2019 to complete the band, which they named after a social club in nearby Acrefair, close to where Matthias' grandparents lived. Only a month after they formed, the Royston Club issued a self-produced, Wrexham-recorded debut single, "Shawshank," a good blueprint for the sunny, reflective, faintly self-deprecating tone that they would make their own. Comparatively, a posturing, riff-based, Reverend & the Makers-inspired second single, May 2019's "Waster," was ultimately disowned by the band and removed from streaming services, as it jarred when placed alongside the rest of their catalog. Much more characteristic of their sound was October's tremolo guitar-filled "Kerosene," released just prior to a series of live dates in Manchester and Liverpool. The Royston Club's debut EP, The State I'm In, was recorded at Liverpool's Parr Street Studios and issued in March 2020. The COVID-19 lockdown period saw them keep in touch with fans online by uploading cover versions, including a rendition of the Smiths' "Cemetery Gates," a song highly emblematic of the Royston Club sound. In early 2021, they were signed to Run On, an imprint of Liverpool's Modern Sky. Following a further run of singles and a Red Rum Club support slot, they released a second EP, Lying Here, Wasting Away, that October. After "Old Man's Knees" -- a January 2022 stop-gap single -- they spent the remainder of the year headlining a U.K. tour, making stops at festivals along the way such as Leeds, Liverpool Sound City, and the Neighbourhood Weekender. Their early 2023 singles "Blisters" and "Shallow Tragedy" pointed to the muscular production achieved by the band during two weeks spent back in Parr Street with Alex Quinn. The resultant full-length debut, Shaking Hips & Crashing Cars, hit the Top 20 of the U.K. album chart that June.
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