Celebrity Featured: Silverchair
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About Silverchair
Siverchair is one of Australia's most successful contemporary rock bands, with more than twenty top 10 hits during the last decade, and over six million albums sold worldwide. The band consists of Daniel Johns (vocals, guitar), Chris Joannou (bass) and Ben Gillies (drums).
Growing up in Newcastle, New South Wales, the band got their big break in mid 1994 when they won a national competition on SBS TV and Triple J Radio called "Pick Me". Their song entry, Tomorrow, landed them a recording contract. The next year, 1995, they released their debut album, Frogstomp. Their original single, Tomorrow, was on the album, and was a #1 hit in Australia and New Zealand. The album went on to become the first Australian album to hit the U.S. top 10 since INXS, selling more than 2.5 million copies worldwide.
1996 and 1997 were hectic years for the band, as they tried to finish high school. They still found time to release a second Album, Freak Show (1997), and play memorable gigs with the Red Hot Chilli Peppers as they toured and another gig at the Radio City Music Hall. A more adventurous piece of work than Frogstomp, this disc yielded three top ten singles in Australia - Freak, Abuse Me and Cemetery. The album went gold in the United States and global sales eventually exceeded 1.5 million copies.
After finally graduating from school the band were able to spend much more time creating their critically lauded breakthrough, Neon Ballroom which was released in March 1999. The band toured Europe and the U.S. throughout 1999 including appearances on leading festivals such as Reading and Bizarrefest and tours with bands like Red Hot Chilli Peppers and Blink 182.
After such a hectic schedule, the band decided to take a much needed 12 month sojournment. The result was the October 2002 album Diorama, which was rewarded with no fewer than six Australian Recording Industry Association Awards including Best Group and Best Rock Album. Their highly anticipated new album Young Modern will be released in 2007.