Modest Mouse Drop Guitarist Simon O’Connor from Tour Over Allegedly Sending Inappropriate Messages to Minor

Earlier this week, screenshots surfaced allegedly showing Modest Mouse guitarist Simon O’Connor sending inappropriate messages to a young fan via Instagram. O’Connor subsequently apologized, claiming he had mistook the fan for a troll with a history of harassing him. Now, Modest Mouse has officially announced that the guitarist will not be performing with the band for the remainder of their scheduled tour dates. “Simon O’Connor will not be joining us on the upcoming tour,” the band posted on Instagram. “The good news is that Seth Jabour of Les Savy Fav will be jumping in to play guitar. We look forward to being out there with you all.” The claims first surfaced when the fan took to r/ModestMouse on Reddit to detail the interaction. She then shared screenshots that show O’Connor beginning the exchange by direct-messaging her a sticker and sending an explicit meme before deleting the latter and apologizing. The fan replied by saying she had assumed he’d been hacked, to which O’Connor responded, “Wish I was hacked just had a party night and looking at everything with one eye ya know.” A few messages later, he continued, “But you did blindside me with a gaggle of likes and then very li...