Facebook Twitter Instagram YouTube
    Nostalgia Central
    • Home
    • Blog
      • Lists
    • Television
      • TV by Decade
        • TV – 1950s
        • TV – 1960s
        • TV – 1970s
        • TV – 1980s
        • TV – 1990s
      • Comedy
      • Drama
      • Kids TV
      • Variety
      • News & Sport
      • Advertisements
    • Music
      • Music by Decade
        • Music – 1950s
        • Music – 1960s
        • Music – 1970s
        • Music – 1980s
        • Music – 1990s
      • Artists – A to K
        • Artists – A
        • Artists – B
        • Artists – C
        • Artists – D
        • Artists – E
        • Artists – F
        • Artists – G
        • Artists – H
        • Artists – I
        • Artists – J
        • Artists – K
      • Artists – L to Z
        • Artists – L
        • Artists – M
        • Artists – N
        • Artists – O
        • Artists – P
        • Artists – Q
        • Artists – R
        • Artists – S
        • Artists – T
        • Artists – U
        • Artists – V
        • Artists – W
        • Artists – X
        • Artists – Y
        • Artists – Z
      • Artists – 0 to 9
      • Genres
      • Music on Film & TV
      • One-Hit Wonders
      • Playlists
      • Online Radio
    • Movies
      • Movies by Decade
        • Movies – 1950s
        • Movies – 1960s
        • Movies – 1970s
        • Movies – 1980s
        • Movies – 1990s
      • Movies – 0 to 9
      • Movies – A to K
        • Movies – A
        • Movies – B
        • Movies – C
        • Movies – D
        • Movies – E
        • Movies – F
        • Movies – G
        • Movies – H
        • Movies – I
        • Movies – J
        • Movies – K
      • Movies – L to Z
        • Movies – L
        • Movies – M
        • Movies – N
        • Movies – O
        • Movies – P
        • Movies – Q
        • Movies – R
        • Movies – S
        • Movies – T
        • Movies – U
        • Movies – V
        • Movies – W
        • Movies – X
        • Movies – Y
        • Movies – Z
    • Pop Culture
      • Fads
      • Toys & Games
      • Fashion
      • Decor
      • Food & Drink
      • People
      • Technology
      • Transport
    • Social History
      • 1950s Year by Year
      • 1960s Year by Year
      • 1970s Year by Year
      • 1980s Year by Year
      • 1990s Year by Year
      • Events
    Nostalgia Central
    Home»Music»Artists - L to Z»Artists - S
    Artists - S Music - 1990s 3 Mins Read

    Silverchair

    Share
    Facebook Twitter Pinterest WhatsApp Reddit Email

    Formed when all three members were 12-year-old students at Newcastle High School in New South Wales, Australia, Silverchair released their first single, Tomorrow in 1994. It hit #1 locally in their native Oz.

    Their debut album, Frogstomp (1995), gave them a US hit while the three band members – Daniel Johns (guitar/vocals), Chris Joannou (bass) and Ben Gillies (drums) – were still in high school. The album couldn’t be more heavily date-stamped “1995” if it tried – it’s as grunge as anything gets. But so was the world in ’95, which bought 3.5 million copies of the album.

    The follow-up album, Freak Show (1997), reached #1 in Australia and yielded three Top 10 singles – Freak, Abuse Me and Cemetery. The album was certified gold in the US and double platinum in Australia, with global sales eventually exceeding 1.5 million copies.

    silverchair_669

    By late 1997, the trio had completed their secondary education and, from May 1998, they worked on their third album, Neon Ballroom. Released in March 1999 it also peaked at #1 in Australia, providing three Australian Top 20 singles: Anthem for the Year 2000, Ana’s Song (Open Fire) and Miss You Love.

    Johns announced in 1999 that he had developed the eating disorder anorexia nervosa, due to anxiety. He sought therapy and medication while Silverchair added an auxiliary keyboardist, Sam Holloway, for their ‘Neon Ballroom’ Tour. Following the tour, the band announced they would take a 12-month-break.

    Silverchair’s fourth album, Diorama (2002) became their fourth #1 album and produced five singles – The Greatest View, Without You, Luv Your Life, Across the Night and After All These Years.

    That same year, Johns was diagnosed with reactive arthritis which made it difficult for him to play the guitar and subsequent performances supporting the album’s release were cancelled.

    The band announced an indefinite hiatus with Johns saying that it was necessary “given the fact the band were together for over a decade and yet were only, on average, 23 years old”.

    Silverchair reunited in 2005 and began recording at Los Angeles’ Seedy Underbelly Studios with the Beach Boys‘ ornate arranger Van Dyke Parks arranging orchestral tracks for the band (as he had on Diorama).

    The band toured extensively before releasing the Young Modern album in 2007. On 25 May 2011, they announced an indefinite hiatus.

    Silverchair proved beyond any doubt that they were more than just a grunge tribute band during a career in which they branched out before finally splitting in 2011 after unbroken Aussie success.

    Hints of staying power were already present in singer/guitarist Daniel Johns’ lyrics. Although his voice was a faithful facsimile of Eddie Vedder‘s, his perspective was distinctly small-town; the band members had mostly spent their lives in Merewether, a former mining suburb of Newcastle in New South Wales.

    Their sense of run-down isolation was ramped up on Tomorrow, in which Johns welcomes us to “a little town” where “the water in the tap is very hard to drink”. It sounds more like the sort of dusty, rusty outback hell-hole passed through in Ozploitation B-movies like Mad Max (1979) and Wake In Fright (1971), rather than Merewether’s nondescript, beach-heavy reality and Johns admitted that those early lyrics were TV-inspired, imaginative leaps.

    Daniel Johns
    Vocals, guitar
    Chris Joannou
    Bass
    Ben Gillies
    Drums

    Related Posts

    • Bluetones, The
      Bluetones, The
      Originally called The Bottlegarden, The Bluetones formed in Hounslow, London…
    • Traveling Wilburys, The
      Traveling Wilburys, The
      Reversing the usual process by which groups break up and…
    • Carter The Unstoppable Sex Machine (Carter USM)
      Carter The Unstoppable Sex Machine (Carter USM)
      Formed in South London, Carter The Unstoppable Sex Machine began…
    • Ash
      Ash
      Ash crash-landed from Downpatrick, Northern Ireland in 1994 into a…
    • Soundgarden
      Soundgarden
      Chicago guitarist Kim Thayil formed Soundgarden in Seattle in 1984…
    • BB Steal
      BB Steal
      Heavily influenced by Def Leppard, this Australian hard rock band…
    • Clouds, The
      Clouds, The
      Australian indie band, The Clouds, was formed in Sydney in…
    • Bad Religion
      Bad Religion
      Blending old-school power chords with hardcore thrash, Bad Religion formed…

    Australia
    Share. Facebook Twitter Pinterest WhatsApp Reddit Email
    Previous ArticleCockroaches, The
    Next Article Normie Rowe

    Comments are closed.

    Follow us
    • Facebook
    • Twitter
    • YouTube
    • Instagram
    You May Also Like
    • Communards, The
      Jimmy Somerville’s post-Bronski Beat group took their name […]
    • Pirates of Blood River, The (1962)
      This lavish technicolour production from Hammer Films tells the […]
    • Serpico
      1 9 7 6 – 1 9 7 7 (USA) 15 x 60 minute episodes This NBC […]
    • Flubber (1997)
      After continually missing his own wedding, Professor Philip […]
    • Revenge of the Pink Panther (1978)
      The adventures of bumbling Jacques Clouseau (Peter Sellers) […]
    • Italian Job, The (1969)
      “You’re only supposed to blow the bloody doors […]
    Twitter Feed
    Please note


    Nostalgia Central covers the period 1950 to 1999 and contains some words and references which reflect the attitudes of those times and which may be considered culturally sensitive, offensive or inappropriate today.
    Popular Tags
    1969 1970 1971 1972 1973 1975 1976 Action Figures Amicus Arcade games Australia Beach movies Beatles Blaxploitation Board games Britpop Canada Crime Disco Disney Doo-Wop Elvis Presley Girl groups Glam Goth Hammer Heavy Metal Irwin Allen Labels Merseybeat Mod revival Motown New Romantic New Wave NWOBHM Oi! One-hit wonders Power Pop Pub rock Punk Radio Scotland Ska Soul music Surf music
    Search Nostalgia Central
    Copyright © 1998, 2022 Nostalgia Central
    • About
    • Contact
    • FAQ

    Type above and press Enter to search. Press Esc to cancel.