Silverchair
Silverchair is an Australian alternative rock band comprised of lead singer Daniel Johns, Bass guitarist Chris Joannou, and drummer Ben Gillies. They have been highly successful, winning a record 20 ARIAs (Australian Record Industry Awards). The band first gained notoriety when one of their first songs 'Tomorrow', won a local music competition run by television network SBS in 1994. In 2003 the band went on hiatus, members using the break to record on side projects The Dissociatives, The Mess Hall, and Tambalane. The Wave Aid concerts of 2005 saw the band reunite, and album Young Modern was released in 2006. Silverchair joined up with fellow Australian Rockers Powderfinger to play the Across the Great Divide tour across Australia and New Zealand, which was to increase awareness of the efforts of Reconcilation Australia to reduce the 17-year gap in life expectancy between Indigenous and non-Indigenous Australians.
They broke up in 2011, although it was officially called an "indefinite hibernation"
- Frogstomp (1995)
- Freak Show (1997)
- Neon Ballroom (1999)
- Diorama (2002)
- Young Modern (2007)
- Animated Music Video: Daniel Johns' arthritis precluded him from performing around the time of Diorama's release, and so the video clip to 'Luv Your Life' had to be animated so as not to remove the face of the band and confuse fans.
- Improbable Age: They were 15 when they recorded Frogstomp.
- Any teen with a garage band would no doubt be thinking "how come we don't have a record?" when they read this.
- Shout-Out: The band name is a Narnia reference, to- you guessed it- The Silver Chair specifically. Early on, they claimed it had something to do with hastily writing down the titles of Nirvana's "Sliver" and You Am I's "Berlin Chair" as "Silver Chair", but apparently they were just messing with an interviewer then.