TV Hits Magazine
By Jeff Jenkins
When Silverchair first appeared, many music critics thought it would be a case of "chair today, gone tomorrow."
But with sales of more than four million albums during the past three years, silverchair have shown that they are a cut above the rest.
Now it's a case of "hair today, gone tomorrow," because the band have shocked their fans by cutting off their long locks.
Daniel Johns' new look is the Australian music industry's biggest haircut shock since Michael Hutchence's pre-Grammys haircut in 1989.
Daniel's move had 'chair fans ringing the ABC music show Recovery and radio station Triple J waiting to know whether the haircut rumours were true.
Drummer Ben Gillies has also opted for a new look.
Daniel and Ben were following the lead of bass player Chris Joannou, whose hair was the first to go.
Chris says: "I just thought, 'Oh, this is so much better and there's just no more worries.'
"You know, you just get up and go. You don't have to worry about having a big mangled knot in the back of your head, you know. Waking up with bed-head and stuff like that."
"Short hair's heaps better."
silverchair are on the charts with Cemetery, the third single from their second album, Freak Show.
