Twenty One Pilots Light Up the Sky at Clancy: Breach Tour Kick-Off: 10 Best Moments From Opening Night

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Tyler Joseph and Josh Dun rolled retired the debuts of respective songs from their caller medium astatine TQL Stadium successful Cincinnati connected Thursday nighttime (Sept. 18).

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 BREACH 2025 Kickoff astatine  TQL Stadium connected  September 18, 2025 successful  Cincinnati, Ohio.

Josh Dun and Tyler Joseph of Twenty One Pilots execute onstage during the Twenty One Pilots THE CLANCY TOUR: BREACH 2025 Kickoff astatine TQL Stadium connected September 18, 2025 successful Cincinnati, Ohio. Kevin Mazur/Getty Images

Twenty One Pilots shows are a batch of things: a celebration, a benediction and a accidental for the Skeleton Clique to reconnect, formal up successful their finest Blurryface resistance and outcry on to the anthems that marque them consciousness live and blessed to person made it to this infinitesimal together.

Thursday night’s (Sept. 18) footwear disconnected of the duo’s 2025 Clancy Tour: Breach outing astatine TQL Stadium successful Cincinnati, was each of those things, with the added bonus for vocalist Tyler Joseph and drummer Josh Dun of proceeding their extended household lustily sing each lyric to a fistful of songs from their hardly week-old Breach medium backmost to them arsenic if they were already decades-old canon.

If you’ve ever attended 1 of the Columbus, Ohio-bred band’s shows — and I’ve seen much than a twelve — this was nary surprise. Before a azygous enactment was played astatine the two-hour-plus blowout, you could already consciousness the excitement and buzz brewing arsenic you walked up to the city’s large league shot stadium. Thousands of Clique-rs were parading astir successful official, and homemade merch and costumes paying homage to the group’s decade-long Blurryface saga, including ones with their throats and hands drenched successful achromatic overgarment à la Joseph’s signifier and euphony video persona, to ominous red-robed ghouls drifting astir similar the Bishops from the fictional metropolis of Dema.

From people schoolers to their moms, dads, older siblings and person groups, the feeling that everyone present was portion of the amusement was palpable. And erstwhile Joseph and Dun yet took the signifier aft a bouncy acceptable from openers Dayglow, it was on, arsenic 21P treated the 21,000 fans to a high-energy tally done songs from their crossed their catalog, including the unrecorded debuts of 4 songs from eighth LP Breach, which dropped past Friday.

The expansive, 27-song, pyro-filled acceptable leaned heavy into the twisty lore of the present decade-long Blurryface saga, which launched successful 2015 with the Blurryface album, and continued connected consequent LPs Trench (2018), Clancy (2024) and Breach.

Joseph admitted that immoderate bits of the amusement were inactive getting ironed-out during the archetypal night, but if either antheral was tense astir the step-up to stadium presumption it didn’t show, arsenic they paraded done the level respective times to get up-close-and-personal with the Skeleton unit that has made their dreams travel true.

Below, cheque retired the 10 champion moments from the opening nighttime of Twenty One Pilots’ The Clancy Tour: Breach outing. (And click here for the afloat setlist from nighttime one.)