{"id":614447,"date":"2026-08-01T02:16:17","date_gmt":"2026-08-01T02:16:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/614447\/"},"modified":"2026-08-01T02:16:17","modified_gmt":"2026-08-01T02:16:17","slug":"simon-oconnor-dropped-from-modest-mouse-tour","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/614447\/","title":{"rendered":"Simon O\u2019Connor Dropped From Modest Mouse Tour"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Following his <a href=\"https:\/\/pitchfork.com\/story\/modest-mouse-guitarist-simon-oconnor-apologizes-for-inappropriate-messages-to-minor\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">public apology<\/a> over sending inappropriate messages to an underage fan, guitarist Simon O\u2019Connor has been dropped from <a href=\"https:\/\/pitchfork.com\/artists\/2800-modest-mouse\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Modest Mouse<\/a>\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/pitchfork.com\/news\/modest-mouse-album-an-eraser-and-a-maze\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">upcoming tour dates<\/a>. According to a <a data-offer-url=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/DbdsCbOhEw4\/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link&amp;igsh=NTc4MTIwNjQ2YQ==\" class=\"external-link\" data-event-click=\"{&quot;element&quot;:&quot;ExternalLink&quot;,&quot;outgoingURL&quot;:&quot;https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/DbdsCbOhEw4\/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link&amp;igsh=NTc4MTIwNjQ2YQ==&quot;}\" href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/DbdsCbOhEw4\/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link&amp;igsh=NTc4MTIwNjQ2YQ==\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">post<\/a> made on the band\u2019s Instagram, he has been replaced by Seth Jabour of <a href=\"https:\/\/pitchfork.com\/artists\/2461-les-savy-fav\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Les Savy Fav<\/a>. Pitchfork has reached out to representatives for Modest Mouse for further comment.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier this week, a 17-year-old fan posted a series of screenshots to the r\/ModestMouse subreddit, documenting an Instagram DM exchange between themself and O\u2019Connor, who has played guitar in Modest Mouse since 2021. O\u2019Connor\u2019s messages to the fan, who says they were 16 at the time and had their birth date listed in their Instagram bio, included a sexually explicit meme of a naked man.<\/p>\n<p>In his apology, also posted to Reddit, O\u2019Connor said that he was originally under the impression that the fan was a frequent troll of his, and that he intended the initial message as &#8220;almost a \u2018gotcha.\u2019\u201d \u201cI&#8217;m genuinely sorry to the person who received those messages,\u201d he wrote. \u201cThey didn&#8217;t deserve to be put in that position, and I&#8217;m sorry for the stress and attention this has brought them.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/www.instagram.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Following his public apology over sending inappropriate messages to an underage fan, guitarist Simon O\u2019Connor has been dropped&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":614448,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[264],"tags":[18,117,19,17,337,6905],"class_list":["post-614447","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-music","tag-eire","tag-entertainment","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-music","tag-tours"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ie\/117017850098179960","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/614447","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=614447"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/614447\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/614448"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=614447"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=614447"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=614447"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}