~April 22, 2009
Happy 30th birthday Daniel Johns! :)
Check out this photo tribute from the Sydney Morning Herald:
http://www.smh.com.au/photogallery/lifestyle/people/daniel-johns-at-30/20090421-adpl.html

~January 23, 2009
"Tomorrow" by Silverchair is now available in the "Aussie Pack" on Guitar Hero World Tour!

~October 23, 2008
Ben and Hayley got engaged!

~October 19, 2008
Silverchair and Powderfinger won the ARIA award for BEST MUSIC DVD for the "Across The Great Divide" DVD.

~October 16, 2008
Chris recently played a show with Tim Rogers, Paul Dempsey and Tex Perkins for Lovell's Lager Launch.
Pictures here:
http://www.chairpage.com/gallery/section/37/2008/10/

~October 14, 2008
Vote for Silverchair to win the Channel [V] Oz Artist 2008 Award! http://www.channelv.com.au/v/ozartist/

A few bits of news

~September 23, 2008
Daniel Johns and Luke Steele have titled their recent collaboration "Hathaway/Palmer" but still have no plans to release this "acoustic pop record".

~September 18, 2008
Triple J has released a compilation album entitled ‘Live at the Wireless from the Vaults - Volume 2’ featuring a live version of The Greatest View. You can order it here:
http://shop.abc.net.au/browse/product.asp?productid=300751

~September 10, 2008
Silverchair have been nominated for two Aria awards! One for Best Group and one for Best Music DVD, along with Powderfinger, for the Across the Great Divide DVD! :) Yay!

~August 11, 2008
Vote to nominate "Straight Lines" in the Best Rock Video category at the 2008 MTV Video Music Awards. Voting is only open til Wednesday so vote now!:
http://www.mtv.com/ontv/vma/2008/best-rock-video/a-z.jhtml?chars=s

~July 28, 2008
The video for "If You Keep Losing Sleep" is eligible for the 2008 Inside Film Awards. Rate it here: http://www.ifawards.com.au/Vote/Film_List_BYID.aspx?filmid=874&festivalid=&return=%2fVote%2fFilm_List.aspx%3fact%3dsearch%26searchby%3dactor%26keyword%3dsilverchair

~July 4, 2008
Daniel was featured in the Music Max documentary about the 2008 APRA Awards entitled "They Write The Songs".

~June 16, 2008
Daniel Johns has won the APRA Songwriter of the Year award! Daniel is the first artist ever to have won this award three times! Straight Lines won the award for Song of the Year and also for Most Played Australian Work. Also included in this report: Silverchair hope to return to the studio next year!!! YAY!!!!!

~June 13, 2008
Daniel Johns and Luke Steele of The Sleepy Jackson have been writing and recording songs together for the past few months but currently have no plans for a release.

~May 21, 2008
Straight Lines has been nominated for the APRA Song of the Year award and also as Most Played Australian Work! Daniel has never won this award before, although he has won Songwriter of the Year twice. There are no nominees for that category so he could potentially capture that award again as well :) The 2008 APRA Music Awards will be in Sydney on June 16.

~April 6, 2008
There is a FREE Silverchair podcast on itunes! Just search for JBTV :)

Vote for Silverchair!!!

~March 14, 2008
Silverchair have been nominated for MTV's Australian Artist Music Award!!! The awards will be held in Sydney on April 26. Vote for Silverchair here:
http://www.mtvawards.com.au/quick_vote.aspx

There is also a long article about Young Modern and Silverchair on the site:
http://www.mtvawards.com.au/nominee_silverchair.aspx

Small Update

~March 6, 2008
Silverchair won two special ARIA #1 chart awards for “Straight Lines” and “Young Modern”, which both spent four weeks at the top in 2007.


~February 26, 2008
It has been officially announced that "Mind Reader" will be the 4th single off Young Modern! It is a digital release only and can be downloaded on Australian itunes along with a live clip :)

~February 19, 2008
Silverchair recently put together a playlist of their favorite songs, check it out here:
silverchair.imeem.com

~February 11, 2008
I know news has been rather non-existant on the chair front lately...but in the lull I've found another Ben interview for you! It's a bit older, from December, but still really good!
http://www.rocksquad.net/silverchair_interview.htm

Don't forget to get The Greatest View EP off of itunes if you haven't already!!!

~February 8, 2008
Check out this interview with Ben!
look in the box underneath the video player, center of the 3rd row down):
http://www.video.news.com.au/newsinteractive/videopage/videoplayer/?Channel=NEWS.com.au+video&ClipId=1094_232541&bitrate=300&Format=wmp

~February 4, 2008

Street Team Mission #7: Show America The Greatest View!!! Yup, it's voting time again, so get your little fingers to work :) Request The Greatest View, Silverchair's latest U.S. single, on your local radio station! Check out the discussion post below for a list of links directly to station voting!!

Also, remember how Straight Lines got all the way to #2 on VH1?? Well, The Greatest View could be #1! But first we have to get them to add it to the list, so type in "Silverchair" "The Greatest View" in the Wildcard entry box and then put it in the #1 spot!! http://www.vh1.com/shows/series/top_20_countdown/vote.jhtml

With all of us doing it, they should have it on the list in no time so then all we have to do is click and drag! :) Let's get going kids!! The chair needs us!!!!