We Shot the Moon
| We Shot the Moon | |
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| Origin | San Diego, California, United States |
| Genres | Rock Indie rock Piano rock |
| Years active | 2007 – 2011 |
| Labels | The Militia Group (2007-2009) Afternoon Records (2009-2011) |
| Website | www.WeShotTheMoon.com |
| Members | |
| Jonathan Jones Trevor Faris Paul Wheatley Jason De La Torre |
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| Past members | |
| Paul Wheatley Vinnie Gravallese Matthew J Doughty Nathan Scott Nathan Andrew Miller Adam Lovell Dylan Rowe |
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We Shot the Moon, formerly known as The Honor Roll, is a band from San Diego, California featuring Jonathan Jones the singer of Waking Ashland, and originally, Dan Koch, and Joe Greenetz both from the band Sherwood.
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[edit] History
The band formed as The Honor Roll when Jonathan Jones' band, Waking Ashland, broke up. On July 21, 2007, the band put up 4 demos on their MySpace page. In August 2007 the group changed its name to We Shot the Moon.
Their first ever show as a band was a benefit concert called Water For Choche, which helped bring water to people in Choche, Ethiopia. It was held on September 15, 2007 at Point Loma Nazerene University in southern California. Since then only two of the members have stayed constant: Trevor Faris (drums) and Jonathan Jones (lead vocals and piano.)
They entered the studio on August 22, 2007, to record a full-length album. The title of the LP is Fear And Love. We Shot the Moon embarked on its first U.S. Tour in September 2007 with an original lineup of Jonathan Jones, Trevor Faris, Paul Wheatley, Matthew J Doughty, and Nathan Scott. By late November, the band was back in Southern California, but it wasn't long before the band toured Japan. Waking Ashland had broken in Japan, and the We Shot the Moon album was originally to be released there as a posthumous Waking Ashland B-sides collection before the group decided to make it their primary project.[1]
Jason De La Torre became an official guitarist in the band in July 2008 along with Adam Lovell on bass guitar.
In August 2008, it was announced that original lead guitarist Paul Wheatley had left the band for personal reasons. His role on the current tour will be temporarily filled by Nate Miller.
We Shot the Moon entered the studio again in January 2009 to begin work on their second LP. The album will be produced by Mike Green (Waking Ashland, The Matches, Paramore). Though the group had a Japanese label contract, they had left The Militia Group early in 2009 and nearly self-released their sophomore full-length domestically after finding little interest from American record labels.[1] The band eventually signed with Minneapolis, Minnesota based indie label Afternoon Records in June 2009 and released their second full-length album, "A Silver Lining," on October 13, 2009.
In April 2011, the singer made a twitter post about a new We Shot The Moon EP, stating it would be recorded in the summer of 2011. In January 2012 We Shot The Moon released the "We Are All Odd" EP of B-Sides. They also announced plans to release their third full length album titled "Love And Fear" in 2012.
[edit] Band members
[edit] Current members
- Jonathan Jones – Vocals, Piano
- Trevor Faris – Drums
- Jason De La Torre – Guitar
- Paul Wheatley – Guitar, Backing Vocals
[edit] Former members
- Vinnie Gravallese – Guitar
- Paul Wheatley – Guitar, Backing Vocals
- Matthew J Doughty – Bass
- Nathan Scott - guitar, bass
- Nathan Miller – Guitar, Vocals
- Adam Lovell – Bass
- Dylan Rowe – Bass
- Taylor Jones – Guitar
[edit] Discography
[edit] Albums
- Fear And Love (April 29, 2008)
- A Silver Lining (October 13, 2009 [Online and iTunes]), (November 17, 2009 [Music Stores])
- Love And Fear (TBD 2012)
[edit] EPs
- The Polar Bear and Cougar EP (2007)
- We Are All Odd EP (2012)
[edit] Singles
From The Polar Bear and Cougar EP:
- "Sway Your Head"
From A Silver Lining:
- "Amy"
[edit] Compilations
- Emaline Media Group and Faceless Present Face The Change Vol. 1 (2009) - Contributed "Sway Your Head (Acoustic Version)"
[edit] References
- ^ a b "AP Recommends: We Shot the Moon". Alternative Press 259 (February 2010), p. 48.
