Tuk Smith And The Restless Hearts have announced a run of UK tour dates, bringing their brand of high-energy heavy rock ‘n’ roll to audiences across the country. Following their date with Maid Of Stone Festival, the band will kick off the tour in London before heading to Southampton, Wolverhampton, Leeds, and Glasgow, with an additional date yet to be announced.
“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,” Tuk Smith told us “This is my first proper UK tour as a solo artist, and I’m just as excited now as I was back then!”
Punk maverick from rural Georgia, Biters frontman, producer and solo artist, Tuk Smith has seen the best and worst of a music industry in constant flux.
He has been 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.”
With the Troubled Paradise EP out now, and 2025 seeing Tuk on the road with Danko Jones, as well as playing Planet Rockstock, 2026 will see the mild-mannered frontman back out strutting his stuff.
“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.”
Tickets are on sale from 27 March 2026 via https://www.tuksmithandtherestlesshearts.com.
