Twenty One Pilots Stolen Drum Recovered After Fans Help Track It Down

Twenty One Pilots end each night on their Clancy tour the same way. Members Josh Dun and Tyler Joseph set up two custom drums in the crowd, relying on the fans surrounding them to hold up their equipment and bring the show home with a cathartic performance of “Trees.” They pour water over the drums, baptizing the surrounding area to the beat as confetti cascades around the arena.

When the lights came on after their recent performance at Manchester’s AO Arena, some fans lingered around to grab some confetti off the ground in remembrance of the night. Another fan joined them in collecting the colorful scraps, except instead of picking some from the floor, they made off with some pieces that were stuck to one of the soaked drums — and they took the drum, too.

“Girl, I really don’t think you should take that,” one witness can be heard telling the drum thief in a video that went viral within the Twenty One Pilots fandom. “Have I just witnessed a crime?” another fan said. “She actually just stole a drum. Am I crazy? There’s no way she’s grabbing it and leaving.” No one standing around in the clip made an effort to stop the people as they made their way out of the arena with the instrument. But once it was clear that the drum was really gone, TØP’s Clique morphed into the FBI.

“Guys genuinely please keep an eye out for the person who stole the trees drum. They are one of a kind, and it’s impossible for them to make another one in time,” a popular fan account on X, @shlofolina, sharing screenshots from the video in hopes of identifying them. The AO Arena has a capacity of around 23,000 people, which puts enough eyes on the ground for a makeshift investigation.

Representatives for Twenty One Pilots did not immediately respond to Rolling Stone‘s request for comment.

“Apparently someone stole the ‘Trees’ drum and they were able to get it out of security because they told the security that Josh gave it to them, or something like that, and now we no one can find it anywhere,” one fan, Becca, said on Instagram via the popular fan account @eggtyler, which boasts more than 80,000 followers. “There’s security that’s walking around, literally making rounds around the venue, trying to find this person.”

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She added: “If literally anyone went to the show tonight and knows the person, saw the person walk out, saw the Uber — literally, anything — you can send me a message and I can somehow try and get it out or voiced by this platform that I have. But yeah, literally crazy.” In a follow-up post, one fan commented that they saw the person walking back to a hotel across from where they were staying, but didn’t think to stop them. “I thought how lucky they were [to have been] given that,” they said.

In the comments under a post on X, another witness offered key details, writing: “It was a guy who had it outside !! They defo did a hand off.”

Within hours, fans had enough information to forward to members of the band’s security team and touring crew, including the name of the hotel the drum seemingly ended up at. By morning, Sax, who captures behind-the-scenes footage for the band, shared an update on Instagram: “We Have The Drum!!!!!! – Thank you for all the tags and information.”

Some attendees saw the debacle as a violation of an unspoken code of conduct within the band’s tight-knit fandom. “I’m so glad it’s back with its rightful owners. I’ve had no sleep because we were keeping an eye out at the hotel,” one fan commented on Instagram. Another added: “‘We are twenty one pilots and so are you.’ That means something to us and that was OUR drum they stole! So so happy that it’s back where it belongs!! Can’t imagine trees without it. Thank you for recovering it!”

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