The Tubs share video for new single "Stoop to Me"

July 21, 2026

The Tubs— the London-based Celtic jangle boyband of Owen Williams (vocals, guitar, keyboards, bass), Dan Lucas (guitar), Taylor Stewart (drums), and Max Warren (bass)—present the new single/video, “Stoop to Me,” from their new album, Hard Life, out September 11th via Merge Records. Listen to the track wherever you stream music, and pre-order Hard Life on CD, LP, and Peak Vinyl from the Merge store in the US or UK, or The Tubs' Bandcamp page!

Following lead single “Who’s Gonna Love You Now?,” which Brooklyn Vegan calls “another sparkling earworm about self-doubt that The Tubs are very good at,” “Stoop to Me” is the folkiest, jangliest pop song on the album. Fiddle player Chris Haigh’s licks complement Williams at his most self-deprecating, the lopsided smile of a guy trying not to let on how wounded he is in unrequited love.

Williams comments, “‘Stoop to Me’ is us at our most power-pop. There’s a few nods to Bob Mould in there as well as a kind of cider-drunk quality via the fiddle parts. To balance this out a bit I wrote from the perspective of a demented cuckold who keeps changing his story mid-chorus. The video (filmed and edited by Kit Harwood) is us playing a secret Gob Nation show with Spike and Garden Centre and doing some karaoke afterwards. A big Gob Nation bash involving lots of boozing in which various homies were passed around old video cameras…spliced in by Kit. A joyful night!”

The Tubs will embark on an extensive world tour this fall, including a month-long run in North America, during which they'll return to some of their favorite cities and fast-food joints in the US and beyond. Fans anticipating their chaos have even more to look forward to — see below for information on the bands who'll be supporting The Tubs on their North American tour! Tickets for all dates are now on sale.

The Tubs on tour:
Aug 07 Brighton, UK – At the Edge of the Sea @ Concorde 2 (Supporting The Wedding Present)
Aug 20-23 Crickhowell, UK – Green Man Festival
Aug 29 Loxwood, Nr Billingshurst, UK – The Wake
Sep 21 Bristol, UK – Exchange
Sep 22 Cardiff, UK – Clwb Ifor Bach
Sep 24 Liverpool, UK – District
Sep 25 Glasgow, UK – Stereo
Sep 26 Manchester, UK – The Deaf Institute
Sep 27 Leeds, UK – Brudenell Social Club
Sep 29 Nottingham, UK – The Bodega
Sep 30 London, UK – Scala
Oct 01 Brighton, UK – Chalk
Oct 02 Southampton, UK – The Joiners
Oct 03 Norwich, UK – Voodoo Daddy’s Showroom
Oct 15 Kingston, NY – Tubby's *
Oct 16 Medford, MA – Deep Cuts *
Oct 17 Montreal, QC – L'Esco *
Oct 18 Toronto, ON – The Garrison *
Oct 19 Cleveland, OH – Grog Shop *
Oct 21 Chicago, IL – Empty Bottle *
Oct 22 Milwaukee, WI – X-Ray Arcade *
Oct 23 Minneapolis, MN – Cloudland Theater *
Oct 26 Seattle, WA – Baba Yaga ^
Oct 27 Portland, OR – Mississippi Studios ^
Oct 29 San Francisco, CA – Rickshaw Stop ^
Oct 30 Los Angeles, CA – Zebulon ^
Oct 31 Santa Ana, CA – Constellation Room ^
Nov 01 Phoenix, AZ – Linger Longer Lounge ^
Nov 03 Austin, TX – The 13th Floor &$
Nov 04 Denton, TX – Rubber Gloves &$
Nov 06 Atlanta, GA – The EARL $
Nov 08 Carrboro, NC – Cat's Cradle Back Room $
Nov 09 Washington, DC – Songbyrd +
Nov 10 Philadelphia, PA – Johnny Brenda's +
Nov 11 New York, NY – Le Poisson Rouge +
Dec 04 Paris, FR – Le Chinois
Dec 06 Amsterdam, NL – Paradiso (Small Hall)
Dec 07 Bruges, BE – Cactus
Dec 08 Nijmegen, NL – Merleyn
Dec 09 Rotterdam, NL – V11
Dec 11 Cologne, DE – Artheater
Dec 12 Hamburg, DE – Nochtwache
Dec 13 Frankfurt, DE – Nachtleben
Dec 14 Munich, DE – Kranhalle
Dec 16 Berlin, DE – Kantine am Berghain