Silver chair
| Silver chair | |
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 Silverchair on the Across the Great Divide Tour in September 2007 |
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| General information | |
| origin | Australia |
| Genre (s) | Grunge , rock , alternative rock |
| founding | 1994 |
| resolution | 2011 |
| Website | www.chairpage.com |
| Founding members | |
| Daniel Johns | |
| Chris Joannou | |
| Ben Gillies | |
Silverchair was a rock band from Australia . In its early years it was mostly assigned to grunge , later works by the band can best be assigned to the broad framework of alternative rock .
history
Silverchair consisted of Daniel Johns ( songwriter , vocals , guitar , piano , harpsichord ), Ben Gillies ( drums and percussion , co-songwriter on the first two albums) and Chris Joannou ( electric bass ), all of whom have known each other since elementary school. At first the three played under the name "Innocent Criminals". They were heavily influenced by grunge , which was the dominant style in rock music in the early 1990s.
In 1994 their song Tomorrow won a national demo competition and the band got a record deal. The single Tomorrow brought with it a great success and in 1995 the debut album Frogstomp followed , which Silverchair repeatedly brought comparisons with Nirvana and sold over three million copies. In 1997 the second album with the title Freakshow was released , which is similar in style to the first album and contains, among other things, the hits Freak and The Door . Both albums led the band to worldwide success. With Neon Ballroom , the band's third album was released in 1999, which overall sounds less harsh and sometimes surprised with orchestral background music contributed by the Sydney Symphony Orchestra (e.g. the piece Emotion Sickness , on which David Helfgott plays the piano). This path taken away from the straight skirt of the early days was followed even more consistently in the fourth work Diorama (2002). Some of the orchestral arrangements on this album were written by Van Dyke Parks . At the same time, the success subsided. In 2007, the fifth album Young Modern followed . This album is marked by electronic influences, as Johns also revealed in his (electronic) side project The Dissociatives (together with Paul Mac ). However, orchestral support was again used on this album, for which the Czech Philharmonic was hired.
Johns, head of the band, suffered from anorexia and severe depression for years . The singer confronts his listeners with these problems in the piece Ana's Song (from the album Neon Ballroom ). When he developed reactive arthritis in 2002 , his energy reserves were finally depleted. It wasn't until 2003 that the band was able to tour Australia for Diorama .
On December 31, 2003, Johns married his longtime girlfriend, Natalie Imbruglia . In early 2008, however, the marriage was divorced again.
After a longer creative break with various side projects of the band members (Johns founded the project “I Can't Believe It's Not Rock!” Together with Paul Mac and later the group The Dissociatives ; Gillies called “Tambalane”) the first time on the occasion of the “ Waveaid Festival ”in Sydney for the benefit of the victims of the 2004 tsunami . In the following it was decided to go to the studio again; The first festivals in Australia were on the agenda towards the end of 2006, before further concerts in North America in early 2007. On March 10, 2007, Straight Lines was the first single from the 2007 album Young Modern . The single went straight to number 1 on the ARIA Singles Charts . Further single releases were Reflections of a Sound and If You Keep Losing Sleep .
On May 25, 2011, the band announced on their official website that the members would go their separate ways in the future and that there were no plans for further releases or performances. The separation was described by the musicians as "hibernation indefinitely".
Discography
Studio albums
| year | title |
Top ranking, total weeks, awardChart placementsChart placements (Year, title, rankings, weeks, awards, notes) |
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| 1995 | Frogstomp |
DE81 (8 weeks) DE |
- | - |
UK49  (2 weeks)UK |
US9  × 2
(48 weeks)US |
AU1 × 6
(50 weeks)AU |
First published: March 27, 1995
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| 1997 | Freak show |
DE42 (6 weeks) DE |
AT22 (4 weeks) AT |
CH43 (3 weeks) CH |
UK38 (2 weeks) UK |
US12  (20 weeks)US |
AU1 × 3
(50 weeks)AU |
First published: February 4, 1997
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| 1999 | Neon ballroom |
DE13 (30 weeks) DE |
AT13 (15 weeks) AT |
CH40 (3 weeks) CH |
UK29 (2 weeks)UK |
US50 (30 weeks)US |
AU1 × 3
(40 weeks)AU |
First published: March 16, 1999
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| 2002 | Diorama |
DE12 (5 weeks) DE |
AT13 (6 weeks) AT |
CH40 (5 weeks) CH |
UK91 (1 week) UK |
US91 (2 weeks) US |
AU1 × 3
(50 weeks)AU |
First published: March 31, 2002
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| 2007 | Young Modern | - | - | - | - |
US70 (2 weeks) US |
AU1 × 3
(38 weeks)AU |
First published: March 31, 2007
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Individual evidence
- ↑ news.com.au: Imbruglia, John's announce divorce , news of January 4, 2008
- ↑ chairpage.com: Silverchair news , news from May 25, 2011
- ↑ Chart sources: DE AT CH UK US AU NZ
Web links
- Official website (English)
- Silverchair at laut.de