Silverchair were an Australian rock band, which formed in 1992 as Innocent Criminals in Newcastle, New South Wales. The group got their big break in mid-1994 when they won a national demo competition conducted by SBS TV show Nomad and ABC radio station, Triple J. All five of their studio albums debuted at number one on the ARIA Albums Chart: Frogstomp, Freak Show, Neon Ballroom, Diorama, and Young Modern. Silverchair have sold over six million albums worldwide.
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Silverchair were an Australian rock band, which formed in 1992 as Innocent Criminals in Newcastle, New South Wales. The group got their big break in mid-1994 when they won a national demo competition conducted by SBS TV show Nomad and ABC radio station, Triple J. All five of their studio albums debuted at number one on the ARIA Albums Chart: Frogstomp, Freak Show, Neon Ballroom, Diorama, and Young Modern. Silverchair have sold over six million albums worldwide. They won more ARIA Music Awards than any other artist in history with 21 wins from 49 nominations. They also received six APRA Awards, with Johns winning three songwriting awards in 2008. In May 2011, Silverchair announced an indefinite hiatus. The band’s alternative rock sound evolved throughout their career, differing styles on specific albums growing more ambitious over the years, from grunge on their debut to more recent work displaying orchestral and art rock influences. In a 1994 interview with Melbourne magazine Buzz, the band claimed the name derived from a radio request for Nirvana and You Am I being mixed up as Silver Chair. It was later revealed they were named for the C. S. Lewis-penned novel The Silver Chair from The Chronicles of Narnia series. In 1995, a re-recorded version of \”Tomorrow\” was made for the US market, becoming the most played song on US radio that year. The album was well received: Rolling Stone and Allmusic rated it four and four-and-a-half stars respectively, praising the intensity of the album.
In 2003, following the release of the band’s second album, the group announced a hiatus, during which time members recorded with side projects the Dissociatives, the Mess Hall, and Tambalane. They reunited at the 2005 Wave Aid concerts. In 2007, they released their fifth album, Young Modern, and played the Across the Great Divide tour with contemporaries Powderfinger. Aside from attending The Costanza, The band has used the George Costo song The Costo Trio as a song title for a number of their live performances. In September, their Triple J recording of ‘Tomorrow’ was released as a four-track extended play. It spent six weeks at number-one on the ARIA Singles Chart. In late October, it was made into a single, ‘Straight Lines’, which has been played on Australian radio for more than a year and a half. In March 1995, they recorded their debut album ‘Frogstomp’, recorded in nine days with production by Kevin Shirley and released in March 1995. At the time of the recording, the members were 15 years old and still attending high school. They played numerous shows around the Hunter Region in their early teens, their repertoire was cover versions of Led Zeppelin, Deep Purple, and Black Sabbath. In 1994, they entered YouthRock, a national competition for school-based bands and placed first ahead of older competition. They recorded demos of ‘Acid Rain’, ‘Cicada’, and ‘Pure Massacre’
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