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Silverchair was an Australian rock band, which formed in 1992 as Innocent Criminals in Newcastle, New South Wales, with Daniel Johns on vocals and guitars, ...
Silverchair returned to recording in June 2001, and released Diorama in 2002. Lead singer Daniel Johns suffered from reactive arthritis while the band were touring to promote the album, [2] and after the 2002 ARIA Awards the band announced an indefinite hiatus. [3] Silverchair reunited after Wave Aid in 2005, and released Young Modern in 2007. [4]
Silverchair was awarded twice for MTV International Viewers' Choice Award, presented by MTV. MTV Australia later inaugurated the MTV Australia Video Music Awards, commencing in 2005. Silverchair was nominated for the first time in 2007 for two awards and won the newly introduced Video Vanguard Award.
Frogstomp is the only Silverchair album to receive platinum certification in the United States by the RIAA (Recording Industry Association of America), selling 1,000,000 copies on 19 September 1995, making it the band's best-selling album in the U.S., and it was later certified double platinum on 14 February 1996. [9]
In April 2022, The Guardian ranked "Tomorrow" at #1 on their "The 25 best Silverchair songs - sorted" list, saying "The EP version is slightly preferable to the one re-recorded for Frogstomp, mostly because it sounds a little rougher around the edges – clearly made by three teenagers who just wanna throw every idea they have into the pot and ...
Live from Faraway Stables is a 2003 live album and concert film by Australian alternative rock band Silverchair.It was recorded at their concert held on 19 April 2003, at Newcastle Civic Theatre in the band's home-town of Newcastle, New South Wales, Australia, [5] and was the second show to be held there [6] during the band's Across the Night world tour of March to June 2003. [7]
Silverchair worked with composer Van Dyke Parks on Diorama; the album contains numerous orchestral arrangements and power ballads, a change from the grunge music typical of their earlier work, but consistent with the band's previous orchestrations on Neon Ballroom. The album's title refers to "a world within a world". [1]
"Straight Lines" is a song by Australian rock band Silverchair. It was released on 12 March 2007 and debuted at number one on the Australian ARIA Singles Chart, becoming the band's first number-one single since 1997's "Freak". The single was shortly followed by the release of the band's fifth studio album Young Modern on 31 March 2007.