Belle and Sebastian accidentally ditch drummer in Walmart, go to new city without him

The indie icons were headed to a show in St. Paul, Minnesota, but stopped for a breather at the supermarket in Dickinson.

"I was coming out of the Walmart, and [Colburn] was coming into the Walmart,” the band's frontman Stuart Murdoch said to Minnesota's The Current. “He was waving very happily, in a good mood. And that was the last time that we saw him.”

Murdoch added that the group had a system for checking in and out of the tour bus, but had probably become "blasé" with it. "With the string players, it was like 12, 13 of us. And it’s like herding cats. So it’s maybe not surprising that something like this happened..."

Fortunately, Colburn wasn't totally isolated (although he didn't have a passport of wallet with him) and checked himself into a nearby hotel. "He had a credit card, but he still sat in Walmart for four hours," Murdoch continued. "He was probably thinking somebody was going to notice, but the trouble is everybody went to bed.”

Murdoch then put a call out on Twitter asking for help. "Lots of kind people tweeted me back, saying, ‘I’m in Fargo, maybe I could get there’, ‘I’m in Bismarck... maybe we could work something out.’ I even had a friend who was driving down from Winnipeg on the way to the show here. So currently we have him in a car driving to Bismarck."

Belle and Sebastian's tour bus now features a reminder to double check before driving off - check out Murdoch's tweets below, complete with a rather relieved group shot at the end.

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..

— stuart murdoch (@nee_massey) August 15, 2017

Thanks for your help folks. We have Richard on a plane now, so everything is ok. He's in his pyjamas, sitting with a mimosa

— stuart murdoch (@nee_massey) August 15, 2017

A new sign appeared on our bus. Should be ok now..pic.twitter.com/mrGvBgq5ca

— stuart murdoch (@nee_massey) August 16, 2017

One big happy bus! X pic.twitter.com/Bu1KPearoz

— stuart murdoch (@nee_massey) August 16, 2017

Belle And Sebastian have a busy few months of touring ahead, with North American shows currently underway, Dutch dates in September, and a Japanese jaunt in October. Find out full details.