Drummer Sigur Rós verlaat de band na beschuldigingen van seksueel misbruik

Orri Páll Dýrason stopt als drummer van Sigur Rós, nadat een Amerikaanse vrouw hem ervan beschuldigde haar tot twee keer toe hebben verkracht.

Orri Páll Dýrason, de drummer van de IJslandse band Sigur Rós, verlaat de groep. Dat laten de twee andere bandleden, Jón þór Birgisson en Georg Holm, weten op de Facebookpagina van de experimentele rockband.

1.0In January of 2013 I was sexually assaulted by a member of the band @sigurros when they were in Los Angeles recording an album that was set to come out later that same year. My assailant’s name is Orri Páll Dýrason. I never reported it. I never expressed my pain publicly. I harbored this ache now for almost 6 years… for many reasons. I felt no one would believe me, I felt I had been irresponsible for trusting him just because he was in a band I loved and I respected him as an artist. 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 … but none of that should matter because no one deserves to be raped/touched/licked/fucked without CONSENT. (((My heart is racing and I’m shaking just typing this.))) I wasn’t ready to go public in the midst of the hype of the #metoo movement because just speaking about it gives me intense anxiety and I was about to give birth to my first child. In the wake of the news of Dr. Christine Blasey Ford calling out Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh, I was triggered to speak out myself. Ironically, he’s now engaged to feminist activist who is also the founder of the Icelandic Slut walk. #endrapecultureyinshadowzhttps://www.instagram.com/yinshadowz4509740211876049051805072284_450974021Instagramhttps://www.instagram.comrich658

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In January of 2013 I was sexually assaulted by a member of the band @sigurros when they were in Los Angeles recording an album that was set to come out later that same year. My assailant's name is Orri Páll Dýrason. I never reported it. I never expressed my pain publicly. I harbored this ache now for almost 6 years… for many reasons. I felt no one would believe me, I felt I had been irresponsible for trusting him just because he was in a band I loved and I respected him as an artist. 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 … but none of that should matter because no one deserves to be raped/touched/licked/fucked without CONSENT. (((My heart is racing and I’m shaking just typing this.))) I wasn't ready to go public in the midst of the hype of the #metoo movement because just speaking about it gives me intense anxiety and I was about to give birth to my first child. In the wake of the news of Dr. Christine Blasey Ford calling out Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh, I was triggered to speak out myself. Ironically, he’s now engaged to feminist activist who is also the founder of the Icelandic Slut walk. #endrapeculture

A post shared by Meagan Boyd 🏺🌿🐚🐍 (@yinshadowz) on Sep 25, 2018 at 1:01am PDT

De exit van Dýrason komt er nadat de Amerikaanse kunstenares Meagan Boyd op haar Instagram schreef dat de muzikant haar in 2013 zou hebben verkracht. Ze zouden gekust hebben en vervolgens in slaap gevallen zijn in hetzelfde bed. Boyd beschrijft hoe ze tot twee keer toe wakker werd terwijl Dýrason haar penetreerde. ‘Niemand verdient het om te worden verkracht, aangeraakt, gelikt of geneukt zonder TOESTEMMING’, schrijft ze.

In een andere Instagrampost, die inmiddels verwijderd is, deelde Boyd een e-mailconversatie tussen haar en Dýrason. ‘Ik begrijp niet waarom je me publiekelijk zou beschuldigen van iets dat ik niet heb gedaan’, zou Dýrason hebben geschreven. Ook in de rest van de mail betwist hij de feiten zoals Boyd ze naar buiten bracht. ‘Je neukt mensen niet terwijl ze slapen!’ antwoordde Boyd in het gedeelde gesprek.

Nu verlaat Dýrason met onmiddellijke ingang Sigur Rós, een band waar hij al sinds 1999 bij speelt. ‘We hebben het ontslag van ons medegroepslid aanvaard om dit in persoonlijke kring te laten bezinken’, besluiten Birgisson en Holm de Facebookpost waarin ze het vertrek van Dýrason aankondigen. Op zijn eigen Facebookpagina schreef de drummer even daarvoor dat hij de ‘ernstige beschuldigingen’ geen invloed wil laten hebben op ‘het belangrijke en mooie werk dat de laatste jaren verzet is [door de band]’.

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