Noisy: Rock band recovered their stolen kit after spotting it online

A young rock band have said they are "excited and relieved" to have been reunited with their stolen equipment after spotting it for sale online.

Noisy, a trio from Worthing who have ed Yungblud and You Me At Six, had £25,000 of kit stolen from a van in Walthamstow in early September.

But after spotting some items on an online auction site, they were able to locate and recover all of it.

The band have joked to their fans that the story could be made into a film.

Noisy are made up of singer Cody Matthews, guitarist and keyboardist Connor Cheetham and producer and guitarist Spencer Tobias-Williams.

The trio have not yet released an album but have notched up several million streams and built up a fan following on the live music circuit, with a sound reminiscent of groups like The Prodigy which fuses rock, dance and hip-hop.

The theft took place in the first week of September, shortly after Noisy played at the All Points East festival in London. The band were due to have a day off following their performance before going on tour as the act for rock band You Me At Six.

"We left the van parked outside our tour manager's house in Walthamstow," explains Connor. "We got a call from our manager at about 7am saying, 'You're not going to believe this but our van's been nicked.'"

The van, which was rented, had been taken at some point between midnight and 07:00.

"We were all speechless," continues Spencer. "We just couldn't believe it, it's the worst news to hear. I think we've realised over the past few months how important playing live is for us as a band. So it was double the amount of gutted."

Almost immediately, the band posted photos of their stolen kit on Instagram in the hope that the public might be able to help them recover it.

They also informed the Metropolitan Police, who have independently confirmed to BBC News that they received the report.

The band recall how, as they waited for updates, there were "so many people out there who were willing to help" - including fellow musicians who loaned them equipment so Noisy could fulfil their slots later in the You Me At Six tour.

However, after that tour was over, a friend of the band messaged Spencer to say he thought he'd spotted their equipment on an online auction site. Spencer says he clicked on the link and recognised his guitar and one of the band's amplifiers. The BBC has viewed the original listing on the auction website.

"With this kind of thing, time is of the essence and we needed to try and get it back asap," Spencer explains. "So I just decided to make an with a fake name, nothing that can be tied back to us.

"I messaged the guy being like, 'Hey mate, would you take this amount of money for it":[]}