Sigur Ros drummer quits the band amid Instagram rape claim from Los Angeles-based artist
Meagan Boyd claims Orri Pall Dyrason raped her twice in a night spent with him in Los Angeles, explaining that Christine Blasey Ford’s testimony against US Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh inspired her to go public
The drummer for Icelandic band Sigur Ros resigned from the band on Monday amid allegations of sexual assault.
Los Angeles-based artist Meagan Boyd reported the alleged assault last week on Instagram. Her account has been set to private, and some of the posts were reportedly deleted, but several outlets printed the text from her posts.
Boyd said the incident occurred after she met drummer Orri Pall Dyrason in a Los Angeles club in 2013 and the two fell asleep in a bed. She wrote that Dyrason then “raped me two times over the course of a night spent with him during his stay in Los Angeles recording an album”, according to Rolling Stone magazine.
“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,” Boyd wrote. “I woke up with the feeling of being penetrated without my consent during a deep slumber … It happened twice that night, and I wondered [to] 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.”
She said that Christine Blasey Ford’s testimony against US Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh inspired her to go public with these claims.
Sigur Ros have performed in Hong Kong several times, most recently at the Clockenflap festival in 2016.