Following his public apology over sending inappropriate messages to an underage fan, guitarist Simon O’Connor has been dropped from Modest Mouse’s upcoming tour dates. In accordance with a publish made on the band’s Instagram, he has been changed by Seth Jabour of Les Savy Fav. Pitchfork has reached out to representatives for Modest Mouse for additional remark.
Earlier this week, a 17-year-old fan posted a sequence of screenshots to the r/ModestMouse subreddit, documenting an Instagram DM trade between themself and O’Connor, who has performed guitar in Modest Mouse since 2021. O’Connor’s messages to the fan, who says they had been 16 on the time and had their beginning date listed of their Instagram bio, included a sexually specific meme of a unadorned man.
In his apology, additionally posted to Reddit, O’Connor stated that he was initially underneath the impression that the fan was a frequent troll of his, and that he supposed the preliminary message as “virtually a ‘gotcha.’” “I am genuinely sorry to the one that obtained these messages,” he wrote. “They did not should be put in that place, and I am sorry for the stress and a focus this has introduced them.”
