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  PIXELSURGEON | Interviews | Music | Silverchair
On the eve of promoting their finest record to date, Silverchair frontman Daniel Johns was struck down with a severe case of reactive arthritis - an illness to which about 6% of males have a genetic predisposition to suffer once in a lifetime.
Silverchair have achieved more within their tender years than the majority of bands could hope to score in their whole career.
Not that Silverchair were ever a band to outwardly compromise – they were always pushing recording limits and experimenting.
www.pixelsurgeon.com /interviews/interview.php?id=14   (941 words)

  
  Silverchair - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The members of Silverchair were all born in 1979 and grew up in the Newcastle surf suburb of Merewether.
Silverchair’s debut albumFrogstomp”, recorded in just nine days in early 1995, was a raw sounding slab of post-grunge alternative rock.
Silverchair fans got their first taste of “Diorama” when a single called “The Greatest View” was released in Australia in January 2002 to coincide with the band’s appearance on the Big Day Out Tour.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Silverchair   (1887 words)

  
 VH1.com : Silverchair : Biography
Nirvana and Pearl Jam, Silverchair gained more notoriety for their age than their music -- at the time they released Frogstomp, they were 15 years old.
Originally called the Innocent Criminals, Silverchair was formed in 1992 in Newcastle, Australia, by three schoolmates: guitarist/vocalist Daniel Johns, bassist Chris Joannou, and drummer Ben Gillies.
Silverchair's success in the United States was nearly as quick.
www.vh1.com /artists/az/silverchair/bio.jhtml   (377 words)

  
 Silverchair » Biography | Legacy Recordings
Silverchair quickly rose to international stardom in 1995 by mining a mix of Nirvana and Pearl Jam on their debut album, Frogstomp.
Silverchair's success in the United States was nearly as quick.
Silverchair regrouped early the next year to put on a benefit concert for victims of the prior year's devastating tsunami.
www.legacyrecordings.com /Silverchair/Biography.aspx   (819 words)

  
 Reference.com/Encyclopedia/Silverchair
Silverchair is a successful Australian alternative rock band whose music may be defined as "post-grunge".
Silverchair came to national prominance after winning an SBS / Triple J Radio demo contest with the song "Tomorrow", and they enjoyed much attention during the post-grunge era of the mid/late 1990s.
Diorama, Silverchair's fourth album, was written entirely by Daniel Johns and was produced by Canadian David Bottrill and Daniel, yielding a positive and unique sound barely recognizable from their old days of grunge, featuring a considerable amount of string and orchestral elements (possibly influenced by the more recent work of English band XTC).
www.reference.com /browse/wiki/Silverchair   (648 words)

  
 Silverchair - Audio, Video, News, Biography - Take 40
Silverchair are one of the most acclaimed and successful bands in Australian music history.
Silverchair's debut album "frogstomp", recorded in just nine days in early 1995, was a raw sounding slab of alternative rock.
Silverchair's intent is clear from the brash guitar wail and the pounding drums and bass that give lift-off to the album's opening track, "Young Modern Station".
www.take40.com /artist/Silverchair   (2059 words)

  
 Silverchair News   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Silverchair will be doing a very special warm up show in Sydney next Thursday night (March 16th) as "Short Elvis" (the name they had before they were called Innocent Criminals).
Silverchair or the LAS do not make a profit from membership fees, the fees are only to cover production costs and mailing costs.
Silverchair and their management are clearing out a strictly limited batch of their own private collectables including some very rare, autographed concert posters.
www.chairpage.com /news/news.htm   (1793 words)

  
 SILVERCHAIR BIOGRAPHY
Silverchair’s debut album “frogstomp”, recorded in just nine days in early 1995, was a raw sounding slab of edgy alternative rock.
Silverchair fans got their first taste of “Diorama” when a single called “The Greatest View” was released in Australia in January 2002 to coincide with the band’s appearance on the Big Day Out Tour.
And I watched the Silverchair live concert on Channel V and I thought it was average, but you should see their performance on the Great Dividence DVD, that's stunning.
www.sing365.com /music/lyric.nsf/Silverchair-Biography/48C0FE958011AC76482568A90039FB13   (2436 words)

  
 Free Silverchair Music Online, Music Downloads, Music Videos and Lyrics - Rhapsody Online
Silverchair began when three Australian teenagers (guitarist Daniel Johns, bassist Chris Joannou, and drummer Ben Gilles) calling themselves "The Innocent Criminals" submitted a demo tape of a single song for a talent contest hosted by a local FM radio station.
To coincide with the release of their single, the band changed their name to the rather obtuse Silverchair, a tribute to Nirvana's "Sliver," (which had been inexplicitly misspelled "Silver") and You Am I's "Berlin Chair," then set out to conquer America.
Silverchair began when three Australian teenagers (guitarist Daniel Johns, bassist Chris Joannou, and drummer Ben Gilles) calling themselves "The Innocent Criminals" submitted a demo tape of a single song for a...
www.rhapsody.com /silverchair   (483 words)

  
 Long Way To The Top
silverchair has had a swag of top twenty hits during the last five years and have sold over six million albums worldwide.
The band was called Innocent Criminals at that stage but quickly became silverchair in August of that year.
Towards the end of 1999 silverchair announced they would be taking a 12 month break.
www.abc.net.au /longway/artist_index/silverchair.htm   (426 words)

  
 gcbabes   (Site not responding. Last check: )
The members of Silverchair were all born in 1979 in the Newcastle surf suburb of Merewether.
Silverchair’s debut albumfrogstomp”, recorded in just nine days in early 1995, was a raw sounding slab of edgy alternative rock.
It’s a particularly apt name for Silverchair’s new CD as this evocative piece of work lifts you out of the everyday and carries you into a world of its own.
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 silverchair guest programming
Formed in the Australian industrial town of Newcastle in 1992, silverchair were still in high school when their first single, "Tomorrow", became the nation’s Number One song in late 1994.
In April 1995, silverchair’s Frogstomp, became the first debut album by an Australian artist to enter the national charts at Number One.
In this expertly crafted amalgam of music past, present and future, silverchair still all only 19 years old have created an album that is truly timeless.
www.abc.net.au /rage/guest/2000/silverchair.htm   (624 words)

  
 BLABBERMOUTH.NET - SILVERCHAIR Confirmed For Australia's THE GREAT ESCAPE Festival
silverchair is far from metal, but they are one of the best bands on the face of the earth.
Silverchair is not metal, but perhaps many of you are failing to realize...not all of the bands that have news on here are all that metal either...Aerosmith isn't metal and neither are many others.
Silverchair did what not too many other bands can say they've done.....released a very very good album when all of the members were only 15 years old.
www.roadrunnerrecords.com /blabbermouth.net/news.aspx?mode=Article&newsitemID=45758   (2044 words)

  
 Silverchair - Celebrities at Weblo.com
Silverchair was formed in 1992 as Short Elvis, which they soon changed to Innocent Criminals.
At the end of last year Silverchair stopped by to chat to the lovely folks at JBTV in Chicago.
Silverchair were awarded with two special ARIA #1 chart awards in Sydney yesterday.
www.weblo.com /celebrity/Singer_Musician/Silverchair/462234   (417 words)

  
 k!mZ!llAz Music
Silverchair have got to be the greatest band, well...one of them at least...i mean...i am a fan of many bands.
Grunge trio Silverchair was formed in Newcastle, Australia in 1992 by Ben Gillies, Chris Joannou and Daniel Johns.
The group changed their name to Silverchair taken from a misspelling of Nirvana's "Sliver" and You Am I's "Berlin Chair".
groups.msn.com /kmZllAzmusic/silverchair.msnw   (223 words)

  
 SILVERCHAIR | THE BEST OF - VOL 1   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Over a three-week period in mid-1996, silverchair recorded their second album.
silverchair would like you to know that the title and artwork of the new album were inspired by some similarities they noted between the old traveling carnivals and today's travelling bands.
In case you're interested, silverchair are generally happy about everything that's happened to them over the last couple of years.
www.sonymusic.com /artists/Silverchair   (323 words)

  
 Silverchair Interview - Young Modern 2007
Silverchair's latest album, Young Modern, is their first new record in 6 years, and the tour supporting it will be their first U.S. tour in over a decade.
Even though Silverchair was in the middle of launching their U.S. tour, Daniel Johns and Chris Joannou found a little time to do a quick interview with us.
On the week after Silverchair's album Young Modern was released in Australia (March 31, 2007), the album debuted at #1 one in the ARIA Albums Chart.
www.methodshop.com /music/interviews/silverchair/index.shtml   (1249 words)

  
 MySpace.com Blogs - Silverchair MySpace Blog
This latest achievement makes the Silverchair frontman the first songwriter in the 26 year history of the APRA Awards to receive this honour on three separate occasions (he also won in 1995 with bandmate Ben Gillies and then in 2003 for his work on "Diorama").
Silverchair has autographed and donated to the auction the guitar Daniel burned onstage in Newcastle at the final Across The Great Divide show.
Silverchair have had the strongest showing of their entire career with "Straight Lines" making it to No.2 on Triple J's Hottest 100 poll missing out on No.1 by a mere 13 votes of the 700,000+ votes cast!
blog.myspace.com /silverchair   (1201 words)

  
 Silverchair Websites
silverchair in Newcastle - Photographs and commentary on the ABC TV documentary about the band.
Silverchair Stuff - Biographies, photos, quotes, and news about the band and individual band members.
Silverchair Tablature - Guitar and bass tablature for playing along with Silverchair songs.
www.iq451.com /music/sites/silverchair-web.htm   (466 words)

  
 MySpace.com - Silverchair - Newcastle, AU - Rock / Alternative - www.myspace.com/silverchair
Silverchair's Latest Blog Entry [Subscribe to this Blog]
congrat's to silverchair and dan songwriter of the year, your just brilliant
In the words of Tenancious D, "Daniel Johns from Silverchair holds the Pick of Destiny".
www.myspace.com /silverchair   (824 words)

  
 Silverchair
Silverchair is also one of only three Australian bands to have three number 1 singles on the Australian Singles Chart, and the only Australian band to have 5 number 1 albums in Australia.
Silverchair have had multiple fourth band members for touring including: Tobin Finnane, but he moved overseas before the band became popular worldwide, and after a year away was not allowed back into the group; Sam Holloway during the Neon Ballroom tour; Julian Hamilton and Stuart Hunter during the Diorama tour; and more recently Paul Mac.
Silverchair was formed in 1992 as Death Rides A Sandwich, which they they soon changed to Innocent Criminals.
www.squidoo.com /silverchair   (710 words)

  
 Artist: Silverchair free MP3, song download, lyrics, music videos
I know to most Silverchair fans, this is their least favorite cd, but it's my favorite.
Silverchair did a LOT of different things, but I mainly like them for their early sounds, and above all the album Neon Ballroom.
You can read the brief interview on the Alternative Addiction page where it is also revealed that Silverchair will follow up their current European tour with 30 shows in Australia with Powderfinger as support.
mog.com /music/Silverchair   (898 words)

  
 Silverchair News: Silverchair inks deal with new indie label >> liveDaily   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Silverchair (music), in the wake of its recent departure from Sony's Epic Records, has signed on with a newly launched Australian indie label founded by the group's manager.
In the statement, Watson describes the label as a "boutique operation" that currently boasts only silverchair and fellow Australian artist Paul Mac, who is also managed by Watson.
Silverchair is scheduled to perform on Dec. 31 at the eighth annual The Falls Festival in Victoria, Australia, according to the group's website.
www.livedaily.com /news/Silverchair_inks_deal_with_new_indie_label-2179.html   (567 words)

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