Noah Kahan Demands Concert-Goers Keep Their Pants Clean: 'You Guys Gotta Understand'

Singer-songwriter Noah Kahan has a bizarre yet urgent message for fans attending his Great Divide Tour concerts.

“If you have to poop at a show please, dear God, just go to the bathroom,” Kahan stated via X on June 27. “Lmao I’ve pooped my pants as much as the next 29-year-old but you guys gotta understand there’s a venue worker out there with a 1000-yard stare after dealing with that.”

Kahan launched his Great Divide Tour in Orlando earlier this month, with a performance at Philadelphia’s Citizens Bank Park on June 26.

“Holy s*** Philly,” Kahan exclaimed on Instagram Stories post-show, sharing a backstage selfie.

He experienced a wardrobe malfunction during the concert but didn’t provide details. “If that’s what tour is going to be like, I’m going to need to buy significantly more boxers,” he tweeted on Friday.

Despite the potential for embarrassment, Kahan expressed enthusiasm for performing his greatest hits for dedicated fans.

“Every city we play in, I’ve probably played five or six of the venues in that city. I’ve been touring for 10 [or] 11 years now,” he told Rolling Stone last month. “I just wouldn’t be in these venues without those 100, 2,000 [or] 5,000 people that came to those earlier shows.”

Kahan hinted at his excitement for all tour stops. “We’re still in rehearsals, I just want the show to be as good as it can get before I’m, like, too excited, but I know that the Fenway shows are gonna be insane,” he quipped about performing at the Boston Red Sox’s stadium. “Four shows at Fenway is just nuts, [then] Wrigley Field, Rose Bowl, like, these venues that I’ve just seen on TV growing up, I’m so, so excited for.”

The Boston shows are particularly meaningful for Kahan. “Boston, though, is always like, is home for me,” he explained. “[I will get] to see my family and all my aunts and uncles and friends and this community of people that have always shown up for me.”

He reminisced about his early days: “I used to buy my own tickets to sell the shows out, like, so many more people now are coming to these shows. I’m never forgetting those moments where we couldn’t sell a show out or we would look out and be at a half-empty room… so every single show I’m excited for ’cause there’s sold out and there’s gonna be thousands of people that have supported me for a long time watching.”