John Wayne Shot Me was an indie

Indie rock

Indie rock is a genre of alternative rock that originated in the United Kingdom and the United States in the 1980s. Indie rock is extremely diverse, with sub-genres that include lo-fi, post-rock, math rock, indie pop, dream pop, noise rock, space rock, sadcore, riot grrrl and emo, among others...

 band from Ammerzoden

Ammerzoden

Ammerzoden is a village on the northern bank of the Maas river in western Gelderland, a Dutch province. The people of the village have strong connections with the people in the province of Noord-Brabant, especially the nearby city of 's-Hertogenbosch...

, The Netherlands.

History

John Wayne Shot Me was formed by Thijs van den Broek in 1998, originally as a one-man recording only project. When his songs received positive reviews in several small underground music magazines, John Wayne Shot Me was asked to perform live. Thijs then decided to form a band with his friends Merijn van Pelt, Geert van Beers and his sister Marieke van den Broek. Soon the band signed to the Belgian label Ines Boukov/62TV Records and many releases and shows all over Europe followed.

Allegedly due to a legal issue about their bandname with the inheritors of the late actor Marion Michael Morrison, also known as John Wayne

John Wayne

Marion Mitchell Morrison , better known by his stage name John Wayne, was an American film actor, director and producer. He epitomized rugged masculinity and became an enduring American icon. He is famous for his distinctive calm voice, walk, and height...

, the band decided to split up in December 2006 . They played their last concert in 's-Hertogenbosch, the city where the bandmembers met in highschool.

John Wayne Shot Me was known for their short melodic twisted popsongs about love, technology and monsters. Most songs featured (samples of) toy instruments and outdated gameconsoles. The band released 3 albums and some singles, including a split 7" with the Californian band Grandaddy

Grandaddy

Grandaddy was an American indie rock band, formed in 1992 in Modesto, California by singer, guitarist, and keyboardist Jason Lytle, bassist Kevin Garcia, and drummer Aaron Burtch. Guitarist Jim Fairchild and keyboardist Tim Dryden later joined the band in 1995...

. The band also worked with Kimya Dawson

Kimya Dawson

Kimya Dawson is an American singer-songwriter, best known as a solo performer and as one half of The Moldy Peaches. In Swahili, "Kimya" means "silence" or "silent".-Career:...

, Julia P Hersheimer, Austin Lace and many others.

Line-up

Thijs van den Broek - vocals, guitars, electronics

Marieke van den Broek - vocals, keyboards, guitars, electronics

Geert van Beers - vocals, drums

Merijn van Pelt - bass guitar

Occasionally the following people are mentioned as band members as well:

Fred Stiens keyboards

Emilio the friendly robot a plastic robot that accompanied the band on stage

Selective discography

John Wayne Shot Me - (self released, 1998) (cassette)

Swinging with ines - (Ines Boukov Records, 1999) (split CD album with Poney and Super Prestige)

The artificial octopus cassette - (self released, 1999) (cassette)

John Wayne Shot Me / Grandaddy split 7" (Ines Boukov Records/62TV Records, 2000)(split 7" with Grandaddy

Grandaddy

Grandaddy was an American indie rock band, formed in 1992 in Modesto, California by singer, guitarist, and keyboardist Jason Lytle, bassist Kevin Garcia, and drummer Aaron Burtch. Guitarist Jim Fairchild and keyboardist Tim Dryden later joined the band in 1995...

)

Flying Time - (Octane Foil, 2000) (compilation 7" featuring Charlottefield, A Series Of Wheels, Johnny Domino and John Wayne Shot vs Blimey!)

Fortran catapult - (62TV Records, 2001) (CD album)

Fortran catapult - (Octane Foil, 2001) (vinyl album, alternate tracklist)

Let sleeping monsters sleep - (62TV Records, 2004) (CD EP)

The purple hearted youth club - (62TV Records, 2005) (CD Album)

Exclusive tracks on compilations:

r2d2 won't you come on Les enfants children - (Purderous Magina, 1999)

a sale all in (track with blimey!) on But you don't really care about music, do you? - (LVR, 2003)

i love perth on everything's ending here (tribute to Pavement

Pavement (band)

Pavement is an American alternative rock band that formed in Stockton, California in 1989. In their career, they achieved a significant cult following, and they were called the best band of the 1990s by prominent music critics Robert Christgau and Stephen Thomas Erlewine...

- (Homesleep, 2003)

waiting for the moon to rise on a century of covers (tribute to Belle and Sebastian) - (Kirsten's Postcard, 2006)