Silverchair "indefinite hibernation"

Gozu · Post by **Gozu** » Thu May 26, 2011 1:51 am

ALMOST 20 years on, the tween dream has come to an end. One of Australia's most enduring and internationally successful rock bands, Silverchair, has announced it is breaking up.

After starting out as 12-year-olds in 1992 and going on to sell more than 6 million records, Daniel Johns, Ben Gillies and Chris Joannou yesterday announced on their website that they were putting the band into ''indefinite hibernation''.

Efforts to record a new album since 2009 had revealed that timeless band-breaker - musical differences. ''It became clear to us we were moving in different directions,'' the statement read. ''It's become increasingly clear the spark simply isn't there between us.''

http://www.smh.com.au/entertainment/no- ... 1f4f5.html

The well had been dry for quite some time.

southee · Post by **southee** » Thu May 26, 2011 6:46 pm

My heart bleeds....... :roll:

Lets hope they hibernate under that rock for a long time!!!

zipzap · Post by **zipzap** » Thu May 26, 2011 6:53 pm

Good name for an album that

Rik E Boy · Post by **Rik E Boy** » Thu May 26, 2011 9:49 pm

Gozu wrote:
The well had been dry for quite some time.

Like that matters in this day and age.

regards,

REB

Freo HeaveHo · Post by **Freo HeaveHo** » Sun May 29, 2011 6:40 pm

Hahahahah funny to see by the number of posts how many people are distraught. Thank god for that.. Couldn't handle any more of that S**t they have been releasing .... Sad that something that started so good ended so badly

AFLflyer · Post by **AFLflyer** » Wed Jun 01, 2011 12:59 pm

nothing wrong with Young Modern at all!

Baron Greenback · Post by **Baron Greenback** » Wed Jun 01, 2011 2:33 pm

Haven't done anything good since Neon Ballroom.
And only a couple of songs were good on that.
Didn't play any of their old songs live anyway so no great loss.

Drop Bear · Post by **Drop Bear** » Wed Jun 01, 2011 2:33 pm

Baron Greenback wrote:Haven't done anything good since Neon Ballroom.
And only a couple of songs were good on that.
Didn't play any of their old songs live anyway so no great loss.

Should have stopped at Frogstomp.

Baron Greenback · Post by **Baron Greenback** » Wed Jun 01, 2011 2:55 pm

Drop Bear wrote:
Baron Greenback wrote:Haven't done anything good since Neon Ballroom.
And only a couple of songs were good on that.
Didn't play any of their old songs live anyway so no great loss.

Should have stopped at Frogstomp.

Nah, Slave, Freak and The Door were pretty good on Freakshow. Cemetery went okay too.

Gozu · Post by **Gozu** » Wed Jun 01, 2011 6:58 pm

I agree, I always considered Freak Show their best album. Never was a big fan of Frogstomp even though it came out not long after I first got into them and Neon Ballroom was decent and IMO they should've broken up after that album. I can appreciate the artistic merit of Diorama but I never thought much of that album and that was when I started to lose a lot of interest in Silverchair. The Wave Aid "comeback" show in 2005 was promising but when I first heard Straight Lines on the radio I knew that the band were now officially dead to me to the point I never even bought Young Modern.

No Association (from Freak Show) live on Recovery in '97 (not '98 as listed):

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0llfTA5fk2g

Gozu · Post by **Gozu** » Wed Jun 01, 2011 7:32 pm

I've always loved these two clips from their Rock In Rio show in 2001. A beefed up version of Slave and a wild version of Freak as the set closer:

Slave live at Rock In Rio 2001:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nii9RK5Ubro

Freak live at Rock In Rio 2001:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eRn7gYhAZy0

southee · Post by **southee** » Wed Jun 01, 2011 7:37 pm

AFLflyer wrote:nothing wrong with Young Modern at all!

One of the most self indulgent records ever but down!!!

Its stinks......think Paul Mac twisted Daniel Johns brain somehow!!! :roll:

Gozu · Post by **Gozu** » Fri Jun 03, 2011 6:43 pm

Three hour Silverchair special on Rage this Saturday night after Airbourne's guest programming slot. From 3:30am to 6:30am starting with the old Cambridge Hotel show from around '95:

http://www.abc.net.au/rage/archive/s3235048.htm

Gozu · Post by **Gozu** » Thu Sep 13, 2012 1:18 am

Silverchair's drummer Ben has formed a new band called Bento with him on vocals. It's pop rock but I've certainly heard worse singing and it's a reasonably catchy song.

Gozu · Post by **Gozu** » Sat Dec 03, 2016 12:44 pm

This isn't going to end well.

http://www.news.com.au/entertainment/ce ... 4e0e69a75e

amber_fluid · Post by **amber_fluid** » Sat Dec 03, 2016 1:28 pm

Gozu wrote:This isn't going to end well.

http://www.news.com.au/entertainment/ce ... 4e0e69a75e

Just getting ready for the Mardi Gras by the look of things.

Gozu · Post by **Gozu** » Mon Aug 22, 2022 1:42 pm

Daniel Johns has admitted he asked the two guys from Silverchair to guest on his new solo album and both declined.

https://themusic.com.au/news/silverchai ... E/22-08-22

Of course they did, he's got no interest in an official Silverchair reunion but wanted it unofficially to help get attention for his solo album.

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