The July 23 St. Louis-area show turned out to be one of the more unusual evenings in the summer concert season as Kings Of Leon stopped the headlining appearance three songs into the set after pigeons perched in the venue’s rafters pelted the band with droppings.

Although the birds apparently were non-discriminating in their target choices, KOL bassist Jared Followill appeared to get the worst of it, resulting in his brother Nate tweeting after the aborted show, “So sorry St. Louis. We had to bail, pigeons (expletive) in jareds mouth. Too unsanitary to continue.”

Or maybe it was one pigeon carrying an extra-heavy load, as venue officials have claimed since the July poopapalooza.

Regardless of how many birds bombed Kings Of Leon that fateful July night, the band will head back to St. Louis area, playing the Verizon Wireless Amphitheater in Maryland Heights., Mo., Sept. 25. The St. Louis Post-Dispatch reports KOL will not take a fee for the show and that the band and Live Nation are shouldering all costs related to the gig.

“As soon as what happened happened, we knew we were going to come back,” Jared Followill told the Post-Dispatch. “We knew (leaving would be horrible, and we knew people were not going to be happy. We were just trying to figure out the best way and the easiest way to get back and make it better.”

Fans holding tickets for the original July gig will be admitted free. Additional tickets priced at $10 go on sale Oct. 28. For more information, click here for the Kings Of Leon website and here to read the St. Louis Post-Dispatch article.