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.