After Rape Allegation, Sigur Rós Drummer Leaves Band
Last week, a woman named Meagan Boyd accused Sigur Rós' Orri Páll Dýrason of sexual assault her in 2013. On Monday, Dýrason said that he had resigned from the influential Icelandic group.
Orri Páll Dýrason, drummer for the popular Icelandic rock band Sigur Rós since 1999, has resigned from the group in the wake of allegations of rape made by a woman in Los Angeles named Meagan Boyd. In her accusation, made late last week via two Instagram posts that have since been deleted, Boyd alleges that the two met in January 2013 at a club where she worked at the time, and that he raped her at his apartment twice on the night they met.
Dýrason has already left the band, according to statements that both he and, frontman Jón Þór "Jónsi" Birgisson and bassist Georg "Goggi" Holm, respectively posted on the group's Facebook page. In his statement, Dýrason did not address Boyd's allegations directly.
