{"id":843517,"date":"2026-08-03T02:09:11","date_gmt":"2026-08-03T02:09:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/843517\/"},"modified":"2026-08-03T02:09:11","modified_gmt":"2026-08-03T02:09:11","slug":"modest-mouse-pulls-guitarist-from-tour-after-alleged-dms-to-teen-surface","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/843517\/","title":{"rendered":"Modest Mouse Pulls Guitarist From Tour After Alleged DMs to Teen Surface"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Modest Mouse guitarist Simon O’Connor is sitting out the band’s next tour after allegedly sliding into an underage fan’s DMs with an explicit image … then telling her a night of partying — and her bikini pics — helped spark the exchange.<\/p>\n

The fan shared screenshots on Reddit showing messages O’Connor allegedly sent before her 17th birthday. She claims her age was clearly displayed on her Instagram bio at the time.<\/p>\n


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Take a look through the DMs … the alleged exchange starts with O’Connor sending a meme and a sexually explicit image, prompting the teen to ask whether he’d been hacked.<\/p>\n

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O’Connor allegedly said he hadn’t been hacked and blamed the messages on a “party night” … before suggesting the fan’s bikini photos had also caught his attention.<\/p>\n

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The guitarist — who joined the band in 2021 and played on their latest album, “An Eraser and a Maze”– later posted his own lengthy explanation on the Modest Mouse subreddit … saying he mistook the teen for someone who had repeatedly harassed and pranked him through fake accounts.<\/p>\n

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O’Connor admitted he used “poor judgement” when he fired off what he called a tasteless meme and a “Simon calls your bluff” sticker … but said he unsent the messages and ended the conversation once he realized he had the wrong person.<\/p>\n

He apologized to the fan … saying she didn’t deserve to be put in that position, and said he strongly opposes any sexual behavior involving minors.<\/p>\n

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Modest Mouse has since announced O’Connor won’t join its upcoming North American tour, which kicks off Tuesday in Ojai, California … Seth Jabour of Les Savy Fav will step in on guitar in his place.<\/p>\n

The band didn’t clarify whether O’Connor is gone for good … but for now, he’s definitely not floating on with the tour.<\/p>\n

We’ve reached out to the band’s reps … so far, no word back.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Modest Mouse guitarist Simon O’Connor is sitting out the band’s next tour after allegedly sliding into an underage…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":843518,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[49,48,75],"class_list":["post-843517","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-entertainment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/843517","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=843517"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/843517\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/843518"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=843517"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=843517"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=843517"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}