Not The Onion

Belle and Sebastian were traveling to their show in St. Paul, Minnesota when they realized they left something behind in North Dakota—their drummer. Upon realizing drummer Richard Colburn was forgotten at a Walmart, frontman Stuart Murdoch tweeted out for help: “Shit, we left Richard in North Dakota. Anyone want to be a hero and get him to St Paul, Minnesota somehow. The gig hangs in the balance.” In an interview with the Current, Murdoch explained how Colburn sat in Walmart for four hours without a phone or identification, eventually checking into a hotel for the night. The next morning, Ellen Shafer, a publicist in Fargo, eventually found a volunteer to drive the lost drummer to the airport, according to the Pioneer Press. Murdoch took to Twitter again to assure their fans that the show would go on, letting them know that Colburn was on a plane “in his pajamas, sitting with a mimosa.”