Rock ‘n’ rollers Tuk Smith & The Restless Hearts can’t stay away from UK soil for too long. Having spent 2025 on the road supporting Danko Jones and blessing Planet Rockstock with their Nashville-tinged melodies and riffs, they’re pleased to share a string of UK tour dates in July 2026.
The 7-date stint will see them kick things off at Maid Of Stone festival before taking in the sights of London, Southampton, Wolverhampton, Leeds, Glasgow, and an as-yet-unannounced show.
On returning again so soon, vocalist and guitarist Tuk Smith shares:
“I’ve always had a special place in my heart for the UK ever since I first started playing here a decade ago with my previous band. This is my first proper UK tour as a solo artist and I’m just as excited now as I was back then!”
UK Tour Dates 2026:
Sun 19th Jul – Maid of Stone Festival
Mon 20th Jul – London the Grace
Wed 22nd Jul – Southampton 1865
Thu 23rd Jul – Wolverhampton KK’s Steel Mill
Fri 24th Jul – Leeds the Key Club
Sat 25th Jul – *yet to Be Announced*
Sun 26th Jul – Glasgow Classic Grind
Tickets go on-sale Friday 27th March. Get yours here.
Tuk Smith is the kind of rock ‘n’ roll ambassador you didn’t think existed anymore. Punk maverick from rural Georgia, Biters frontman, producer and solo artist, he’s seen the best and worst of a music industry in constant flux. By turns it’s left him critically acclaimed, poised for stadiums, dropped, burned out, back in the game and beloved by those for whom rock is still everything. Now based in Nashville, and with his own label Gypsy Rose Records, he creates from a more real place than most.
“I want to do something that means something to people”, Tuk says, “because a lot of shit nowadays is so disposable and so plastic. I just don’t connect with that. I’d like to do things that impact people positively. It’s a weird time on the planet, so to have songs about hope, but not be cheesy about it, it’s something I think we need with songwriting. That’s the kind of music I want to hear”.
Again, there’s that dichotomy he speaks of. “Rock ‘n’ roll is essentially the illusion of not giving a fuck, right? Like, you know Axl Rose was doing sit-ups and jump rope, and Paul Stanley was on a cardio machine, and they come out and act like it just happens. The point is I sit at that piano many hours, working on this stuff”.
Weblinks:
www.tuksmithandtherestlesshearts.com
www.facebook.com/TukSmithOfficial
