UPDATE 6/29/26 at 3 a.m. ET — During his Sunday, June 28, show in Toronto, Noah Kahan made fans pledge not to poop their pants and dispose of the waste on the floor at his concert.
“This is awkward and it’s fresh in more ways than one,” he said onstage at Rogers Stadium, per footage posted via X. “When you enter this building, you enter a social contract … Rule no. 2 besides don’t literally f***ing kill each other is don’t s*** on the floor.”
Kahan then had fans repeat a pledge to that effect. “I solemnly swear I will not s*** my pants, and if I do, I won’t take it from my pants and put it on the floor,” he had fans agree.
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Singer-songwriter Noah Kahan has an unusual request for fans planning to attend his Great Divide Tour concerts.
“If you have to poop at a show please, dear God, just go to the bathroom,” Kahan, 29, wrote via X on Saturday, 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 kicked off his Great Divide Tour in Orlando earlier this month, performing at Philadelphia’s Citizens Bank Park on Friday, June 26.
“Holy s*** Philly,” Kahan wrote via Instagram Stories after the show, sharing a backstage selfie.
Without elaborating what happened during the show, Kahan suffered a wardrobe mishap of sorts.
“If that’s what tour is going to be like, I’m going to need to buy significantly more boxers,” he tweeted on Friday.
Kahan later clarified that he had, in fact, previously “s*** myself” during a concert.
“I s*** myself onstage in Charlottesville but that’s because I am dedicated to my craft,” he tweeted later on Saturday, in case anyone was wondering why he was issuing such a personal warning.
Aside from potentially soiling himself, Kahan had been excited to hit the road and perform his greatest hits for some of his biggest 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.”
At the time, Kahan teased that he was equally “excited for all” of the 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 of 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, specifically, hold a special place in Kahan’s heart.
“Boston, though, is always like, is home for me,” he explained to the outlet. “[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 continued, “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.”
