Sigur Rós Drummer Orri Páll Dyrason Leaves Band Following Sexual Assault Allegations
Monday, 01 October 2018
Written by Huw Baines
Drummer Orri Páll Dyrason has left Sigur Rós following allegations of sexual assault.
A statement posted by his bandmates, Jónsi, and Georg Hólm, said: “In the wake of the extremely serious and personal allegations made against him in recent days we have today accepted the resignation of our bandmate Orri Páll Dyrason to allow him to deal with this privately. Jónsi & Georg”
The allegations were made last week by Los Angeles-based artist Meagan Boyd on Instagram, who wrote: "I was drunk, and I had met him at a club (I had a brief period in which I was a dancer at a club called “the body shop”), I also engaged in a kiss with him before falling asleep in the same bed, after that I completely knocked out. I woke up with the feeling of being penetrated without my consent during a deep slumber.. it happened twice that night, and I wondered myself why I didn’t leave after the first time- but I was drunk, dead tired, in shock, and this was right before I ever heard of anything like Uber/lyft"
Orri Páll Dýrason has addressed them in a post on his personal Facebook page, confirming his exit from Sigur Rós: "In light of the scale of this matter, I have decided to leave Sigur Rós. That is a difficult decision for me, but I cannot have these serious allegations influence the band and the important and beautiful work that has been done there for the last years. A job that is so dear to me.
"I will do anything in my power to get myself out of this nightmare, but out of respect for those actually suffering from sexual violence, I will not take that fight public."
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