Noah Kahan has once again had to publicly remind fans how to conduct themselves.
After pleading with fans to stop stealing a street sign referenced in his song ‘The View Between Villages’, he’s now had to follow up with a second request: that they use the toilet.
“If you have to poop at a show please dear god just go to the bathroom lmao,” Kahan wrote in a post to X on Saturday (June 27), after one fan reportedly defecated in their seat rather than miss a song.
“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 reportedly learned of the incident after a fan posted a graphic video about it on social media, and later followed up by noting: “I shit myself onstage in Charlottesville, but that’s because I am dedicated to my craft”.
As for the street sign debacle, it’s unclear how many times exactly it’s been nicked, but it’s become such a nuisance to local people that Kahan has offered to “pay for any replacements”.
If you have to poop at a show please dear god just go to the bathroom 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
— Noah Kahan (@NoahKahan) June 27, 2026
The singer took to social media to plead with fans to stop, writing: “I’ve been informed that the Alger Brook Road sign in Strafford has been repeatedly stolen. It is a total disrespect to the folks who live on that road and a headache for the town to deal with.”
‘The View Between Villages’ comes from Kahan’s ‘2022’ album ‘Stick Season‘, and includes the lyric: “Past Alger Brook Road, I’m over the bridge/A minute from home, but I feel so far from it”. Since it’s release, some fans have taken to stealing it as a souvenir.
“I hate that because I put the road name in a song that some people have taken that as an invitation to disrupt the lives of the hardworking and kind folks who frequent it,” Kahan said in a recent Instagram story.
Kahan released his fourth studio album, ‘The Great Divide’, on April 24, and has since announced a world tour to go alongside the new album. He plays around Australia and New Zealand in September and October, before heading to the UK and Ireland in November and then mainland Europe. You can find all the dates here and the remaining tickets here.
He will also embark on the North American leg this summer – find any remaining tickets here. The artist has also been lined up for Bonnaroo 2026 alongside The Strokes, Turnstile, Skrillex and more.
Kahan has spoken about the themes that define his new album. “From a long silence forms a divide, a great expanse demanding attention. I stare across it. I see old friends, my father, my mother, my siblings, my younger self, the great state of Vermont.
“I want to scream these feelings, to gesticulate wildly at the figures on the other side, but my voice has grown hoarse and muted after years of climbing a ladder towards the wild, spiralling dreams that have materialised in front of me,” he has said.
“Instead, I wrote them down next to a piano in Nashville, next to a pond in Guilford Vermont, in a legendary studio in upstate New York, on a farm with a firetower in Only, Tennessee. The songs are the words I would say if I could. They are the fears I dance with in the moments before I drift off to sleep. The music here is my best attempt to delve deeper into the people, places, and feelings that have made me who I am.
“I am grateful for all of it, for all of you, for listening to them, if you choose to do so.”
Kahan also reflected on the success of his hit song ‘Stick Season’ during an interview with NME in 2023. “I never thought this was gonna happen to me,” he said at the time.
