Noah Kahan throws support behind Hinterland co-headliner: “I’m really here for Chappell Roan”

5 August, 2024

Noah Kahan and Chappell Roan

Noah Kahan was seen enjoying Chappell Roan‘s set at the Hinterland Music Festival this weekend.

The ‘Stick Season’ singer has joked about his long-standing love for Roan’s music, taking to Instagram stories to warn fans flocking to see his headline set on Sunday night (August 4): “I might be headlining but I’m really here for Chappell Roan.”

While the Iowa music festival has come under fire for potential health and safety concerns in the hot weather, fans delighted in seeing artists like Hozier, Vampire Weekend, Ethel Cain and more.

Many of them noticed Kahan’s enthusiasm when it came to Roan’s set, and the Vermont artist was then filmed filming her, with fans joking: “Noah Kahan filming Chappell Roan’s set like a proud dad is my new favorite video.”

 

Roan’s stratospheric rise in popularity was evident in the crowd she pulled at the festival, which Kahan noted in another Instagram story was the “most electric shit ever” to watch.

The NME cover star has been open about the drawbacks over her sudden fame, and expressed wanting to “[pump] the brakes” on it after fans gave off “stalker vibes”.

Speaking on the latest episode of the Comment Section podcast with Drew Afualo, Roan said: “People have started to be freaks — like, [they] follow me and know where my parents live, and where my sister works. All this weird shit.”

Roan recalled: “This is the time when a few years ago when I said that if [there were] stalker vibes or my family was in danger, I would quit. And we’re there. We’re there!

“I’m just kind of in this battle… I’ve pumped the brakes on, honestly, anything to make me more known. It’s kind of a forest fire right now. I’m not trying to go do a bunch of shit.”

Elsewhere, Roan made a crossover into the wrestling world, after causing a string of rave reactions online for wearing lucha libre attire at her Lollapalooza 2024 set.

This month (August 22), Kahan is set to perform his biggest show in London yet with a headlining concert at The O2. Buy tickets here.

In NME‘s five-star review of Kahan’s London concert last February, Ben Jolley writes: “Having made folk-pop cool again – it was once, perhaps fairly, derided as ‘stomp clap hey’ music – there’s no denying the torch-bearing troubadour was made to play massive stages. August’s headline show at London’s The O2, a venue even bigger than this, looks like it’ll be a walk in the park.”

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