News
09-07-2007
POWDERFINGER AND SILVERCHAIR’S ACROSS THE GREAT DIVIDE TOUR EXPANDS FURTHER WITH SECOND SHOWS IN PERTH AND NEWCASTLE ON SALE AND GOLD COAST SOLD OUT!
At 9.00am this morning POWDERFINGER and SILVERCHAIR fans were given their opportunity to be a part of one of the largest Australian tours in decades, and they’ve come out in force!
The first shows in Brisbane, Melbourne, Sydney, Adelaide and Wollongong all officially SOLD OUT in approximately 30 minutes, with promoters immediately adding a second dates to meet the high demand. The Gold Coast Convention Centre show on 2 September also sold out by mid morning as did Newcastle. A 2nd Newcastle show at the Entertainment Centre on Friday, 26 October will be on sale from 2.00pm today.
Catching up with the time difference in Perth, the promoters are delighted to announce that Perth fans mirrored the capital city sales in Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane and Adelaide with the first show selling out within hours of going on sale. Accordingly, a 2nd show at Perth’s Claremont Oval on Sunday, 23 September will go on sale at 12 noon (WA time)!
Powderfinger's new single, ‘I Don't Remember’ also goes to Australian radio today. Taken from their brand new double platinum album ‘Dream Days at the Hotel Existence’, ‘I Don't Remember’ is classic Powderfinger - written during pre-production when the band landed in Los Angeles to record. Quoted during the making of the song in January 2007, Bernard Fanning said "It's a song about making mistakes and trying to reconcile what they were - but then in the end, in the wash up - it doesn't really matter whose fault it was, as long as it gets reconciled".
‘Reflections of a Sound’, the second single from Silverchair's #1 album ‘Young Modern’, will be released digitally on Saturday July 14. The track is bundled with live versions of ‘Straight Lines’ and ‘Mind Reader’ from the group's Carriageworks Album Launch. The iTunes bundle also includes an exclusive live version of ‘Luv Your Life’. The song’s accompanying video is very much a talking piece and is currently receiving significant TV airplay right across the country.
Tickets for the second shows in Brisbane, Sydney, Melbourne, Adelaide, Perth, Wollongong and Newcastle on sale now!
Saturday, 1 September
Brisbane Entertainment Centre
Tickets available from usual Ticketek outlets, 132 849 or www.ticketek.com.au
$99.90 (inc GST) plus booking fee and any other ticketing agency charges if applicable.
All ages and licensed – please bring photo ID if you wish to drink.
Sunday, 9 September
ACER Arena, Sydney Olympic Park
Tickets available from usual Ticketek outlets, 132 849 or www.ticketek.com.au
$99.90 (inc GST) plus booking fee and any other ticketing agency charges if applicable.
All ages and licensed – please bring photo ID if you wish to drink
Wednesday, 19 September
Rod Laver Arena, Melbourne
Tickets available from usual Ticketek outlets, 132 849 or www.ticketek.com.au
$99.90 (inc GST) plus booking fee and any other ticketing agency charges if applicable.
All ages and licensed – please bring photo ID if you wish to drink
Sunday, 23 September
Claremont Oval, Perth
Tickets available from www.acrossthegreatdivide.com.au
or via phone sales call centre on 1300 762 545, usual Ticketek outlets, 132 849 or www.ticketek.com.au, www.heatseeker.com.au, Live Clothing Stores, Star Perth,
Mills Fremantle, Beat Karrinyup, Planet Mt Lawley, Star Mandurah, The Prince Bunbury, Blue 62 Busselton, 3 Bears Dunsborough.
$99.90 (inc GST) plus booking fee and any other ticketing agency charges if applicable.
All ages with 18+ areas – please bring photo ID if you wish to drink
Thursday, 27 September
Adelaide Entertainment Centre
Tickets available from AEC Box Office & usual Ticketek outlets, 132849 or www.ticketek.com.au
$99.90 plus booking fee and any other ticketing agency charges if applicable.
All ages and licensed please bring photo ID if you wish to drink
Wednesday, 24 October,
WIN Entertainment Centre, Wollongong
Tickets available from usual Ticketek outlets, 132 849 or www.ticketek.com.au
$99.90 (inc GST) plus booking fee and any other ticketing agency charges if applicable.
All ages and licensed – please bring photo ID if you wish to drink
Friday, 26 October
Newcastle Entertainment Centre
Tickets available from NEC Box Office 02 4921 2121, usual Ticketek outlets, 132 849 or www.ticketek.com.au
$99.90 (inc GST) plus booking fee and any other ticketing agency charges if applicable.
All ages and licensed – please bring photo ID if you wish to drink
LIMIT 6 PER TRANSACTION
06-07-2007
Silverchair single available on iTunes NOW!
The band’s epic first single, “Straight Lines”, from the “Young Modern” album, has already peaked at #1 in their homeland Australia. It has also been added to most American modern rock stations including KROQ and Indie 103.1 in Los Angeles, New York's KROCK, Chicago's Q101, KNRK Portland, and 99X in Atlanta. It’s also among the most requested songs on several of these stations.
In great news for fans of the Aussie trio, “Straight Lines” is now available on iTunes! The single also includes “English Garden” which features a special vocal appearance by Judith Durham of 60’s pop sensations “The Seekers.”
In other big U.S. news, Silverchair will make their first ever appearance on NBC's "The Tonight Show with Jay Leno" when they perform "Straight Lines" there on Tuesday July 10. They will then perform the song on the CBS's "Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson" on the night of
Thursday July 12 (12:35AM ET/PT). Daniel Johns also flew to New York this week to film a major feature for MTV News.
Silverchair are one of the most acclaimed and successful bands in Australian music history. They have had more #1 albums in their homeland than any other Aussie band (they have enjoyed five chart toppers, Midnight Oil had four #1’s, while AC/DC and INXS each had three). Their music has evolved hugely since their teenage years and they’ve now grown into 27 year old critical darlings – a feat that seemed highly unlikely back in the mid-90’s.
The band kicks off their North American tour on Friday July 13 with shows on the U.S. west coast. Many dates on that tour are already sold out – including San Francisco, Vancouver, Atlanta and Boston - which is an extraordinary result given that it's Silverchair's first visit to all of those markets since 1999.
For your Silverchair fix before these shows, go to iTunes and get yourself “Straight Lines”.
05-07-2007
SILVERCHAIR HEAD BACK TO THE U.S. AS TICKETS GO ON SALE IN OZ
Tickets go on sale at 9am on Monday for Silverchair’s big co-headlining Australian tour with Powderfinger – “Across The Great Divide”. But the band won’t be in the country on that day. Instead they’ll be in North America preparing for the July 24 Stateside release of their acclaimed album, “Young Modern”.
Silverchair is currently enjoying their best run at U.S. radio in over a decade with their #1 Aussie hit “Straight Lines” getting added to over 30 stations across America over recent weeks.
Nearly all of the country’s biggest modern rock stations are on board upfront of the album’s release including KROQ and Indie 103.1 in Los Angeles, New York’s KROCK, Chicago’s Q101, KNRK Portland, and 99X in Atlanta. For many of these stations, “Straight Lines” is the first Silverchair song they have playlisted since way back in 1997. The track is already among the most requested tunes on several of these stations which augers well for its future commercial success.
In other big U.S. news, Silverchair will make their first ever appearance on NBC’s “The Tonight Show with Jay Leno” when they perform “Straight Lines” there on Tuesday July 10. They will then perform the song on the CBS’s “Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson” on the night of Thursday July 12 (12:35AM ET/PT).
Daniel Johns also flew to New York this week to film a major feature for MTV News.
The band kicks off their North American tour on Friday July 13 with shows on the U.S. west coast. Many dates on that tour are already sold out – including San Francisco, Vancouver, Atlanta and Boston - which is an extraordinary result given that it’s Silverchair’s first visit to all of those markets since 1999.
The tour will conclude with a mainstage performance at Chicago’s Lollapalooza Festival in early August before heading on to Europe for 3 weeks of shows including sold out dates in London and Paris. At the end of the month the band will head home to commence the “Across The Great Divide” Australian tour.
Silverchair’s current U.S. resurgence has taken many in that country’s music industry by surprise. While the group sold over 3 million albums in America during the 1990’s, 2002’s “Diorama” received almost no airplay there due to the band’s inability to tour following the arthritic illness that affected singer, Daniel Johns. Given rapidly changing musical trends it seemed highly unlikely that any group could return to the highly competitive U.S. airwaves so strongly after such a long absence.
The current run of early success is also surprising some industry types because, “Young Modern” has not been released through a conventional deal with a big record company. Instead, it is being released on Silverchair’s Aussie imprint – Eleven: a music company - through Warner Music’s boutique Independent Label Group (ILG) rather. Essentially the deal gives the band complete control over their music and how it is marketed which makes the current radio and TV embrace of “Straight Lines” all the more rewarding.
Meanwhile, back at home the second single from Young Modern – “Reflections Of A Sound” – will be released digitally on Saturday July 14. The track will be bundled everywhere with live versions of “Straight Lines” and “Mind Reader” from the group’s Carriageworks Album Launch. iTunes will also include an exclusive live version of “Luv Your Life” in their version of the single package.
04-07-2007
ACROSS THE GREAT DIVIDE TO CROSS "THE DITCH"
SILVERCHAIR and POWDERFINGER are set to raise the roof on four of New Zealand’s biggest venues in a unique co-headline national concert tour in October.
ACROSS THE GREAT DIVIDE will bridge the gap between us old foes -- Australia and New Zealand -- with a rock & roll tour on a scale unseen here for decades.
ACROSS THE GREAT DIVIDE kicks off at the Westpac Arena in Christchurch on October 16 and will continue through Wellington and Palmerston North, culminating with a spectacular show at Auckland’s Vector Arena on the Saturday of the Labour Day long weekend, October 20.
The humongous Spring tour is an opportunity for thousands of Kiwi fans to partake in what will be a huge event in every location it visits. Tickets will go on sale to the general public at 9am on July 20. There will be an exclusive presale for Visa Card holders from 9am on July 20 through 5pm on July 23 (see below for all the ticketing info).
For both bands, ACROSS THE GREAT DIVIDE marks a return to major touring following extended breaks.
In March, SILVERCHAIR released Young Modern, their first new studio album in five years. Young Modern went straight to the top of the Australian charts. It made SILVERCHAIR the first Australian band ever to achieve the feat of scoring five No. 1 albums in Australia and is the fastest selling release of the group’s career. Young Modern features SILVERCHAIR’s comeback single, “Straight Lines”, which also topped the charts.
POWDERFINGER have just released their first studio album in four years, Dream Days at the Hotel Existence. It went straight to No. 1 in Australia and recorded the biggest first week sales of any artist so far this year, making it four consecutive chart-toppers for the 'Finger and no doubt setting Dream Days at the Hotel Existence on a path to match the multi-platinum status of its predecessors. POWDERFINGER’s album sales exceed 2 million in Australia alone and their three previous releases (Internationalist, Odyssey Number Five and Vulture Street) each won the ARIA Album of the Year Award – a critical feat unmatched by any other Australian act.
Of course, POWDERFINGER and SILVERCHAIR’s paths have briefly crossed a couple of times before. They have shared the bill at the odd rock festival over the years.
"We met the Silver chaps back in 1994 and became friends" say the members of POWDERFINGER. "At the time, we played some festivals together and talked about doing some touring down the track. It’s only taken us 13 years to get around to it!".
The bands have formed a jointly-owned company which will act as the promoter for this special tour.
At each show, the groups will play sets of equal length with their full concert production. A special guest artist will open proceedings, then POWDERFINGER will perform followed by SILVERCHAIR. Promoters of the co-headline concert are looking for some great Kiwi bands to even out the dance card for the evenings.
WHEN & WHERE:
October 2007
16th Christchurch, Westpac Arena. Bookings: Ticketek www.ticketek.co.nz
18th Wellington, TSB Bank Arena. Ticketek www.ticketek.co.nz
19th Palmerston North, Arena Manawatu. Ticketek www.ticketek.co.nz
20th Auckland, Vector Arena. Bookings: www.ticketmaster.co.nz
VISA CARDHOLDER PRE-SALE 9.00am - FRIDAY, JULY 20 to 5.00pm - MONDAY, JULY 23 www.visaentertainment.co.nz - LIMIT 6 PER TRANSACTION
GENERAL PUBLIC ON-SALE 9.00am - MONDAY, JULY 23 - LIMIT 6 PER TRANSACTION
04-07-2007
DANIEL LIVE ON MTV CANADA
Canadian fans should check out MTV around 5.30pm Toronto time on Wednesday for a live interview with Daniel. Daniel will also be doing other media in Canada on Thursday including interviews on Much Music.
29-06-2007
SECOND PRESALE DUE TO TICKET OUTLET ERROR
Silverchair would like to apologize to any fans who were
inconvenienced by a Ticketek error during part of today’s presale.
While presales from other ticketing outlets seem to have proceeded
smoothly Ticketek discovered a problem with their presales about 20
minutes after they began. Apparently Ticketek had incorrectly
configured their presale website so that it would only accept one type
of credit card when that was never supposed to be the case.
Ticketek corrected this error as soon as it was discovered. However, in
order not to disadvantage any fans who missed out due to this error, Ticketek have organized a second presale to be conducted from 2pm to 3pm VIC/NSW/QLD time today.
They have confirmed that this presale will definitely accept all credit
cards. Tickets in this new allocation will be of identical quality to
those in the initial presale offering.
To buy tickets in this presale please go to http://premier.ticketek.com.au/ppredirect.aspx?pp=CHAI&sh=SCPFFANC07 between 2pm and 3pm today Australian Eastern Standard Time (remember to adjust accordingly if you live in other time zones).
All other conditions of the previous presale apply to this window as well.
PLEASE NOTE THAT TODAY’S SECOND PRESALE ONLY APPLIES TO THE SHOWS FOR
WHICH TICKETEK WERE ORIGINALLY SELLING TICKETS (IE: NEWCASTLE,
BRISBANE, GOLD COAST, SYDNEY, MELBOURNE, ADELAIDE AND WOLLONGONG). THIS
SECOND PRESALE DOES NOT APPLY TO ANY OTHER SHOWS AS NO PROBLEMS WERE
ENCOUNTERED WITH THOSE SHOWS.
Again, apologies for any inconvenience which was caused by this Ticketek error.
24-06-2007
SILVERCHAIR LAUNCHES THEIR US STREET TEAM
Do you live in the USA and want to help spread the word about Silverchair and their brand new album "Young Modern"? If so you can now join Silverchair's US Street Team!
The Street Team will be instrumental in helping the band promote "Young Modern" and their forthcoming US tour. There are many things we are hoping you folks will sign up for. From telling your friends and family about tour dates and release information, by phoning local TV and radio stations to request they play Silverchair to posting blogs, distributing flyers and everything else in between! We might even call on you for special projects from time to time. By completing various missions you will be rewarded with exclusive content, tickets to the upcoming tour and special merchandise from signed posters, to CD’s!
To join Silverchair's US Street Team simply click the banner and fill out your details and wait for us to be in touch!
Why not help us take Silverchair to the world?
22-06-2007
"ACROSS THE GREAT DIVIDE" TV ADVERT
After weeks of speculation, theorising and a bunch of hearsay, Australia’s two biggest rock bands – POWDERFINGER and SILVERCHAIR - have officially announced extensive plans to stage a major co-headline national concert tour.
Check out the TV advert for the tour...
20-06-2007
DO YOU WANT TO HEAR OR SEE MORE "REFLECTIONS OF A SOUND"?
If so please lodge your votes with the following websites.
| Channel [V] | Triple J | MTV |
| Hot30 | Videohits | Rate The Music |
| Triple M | Nova1069 | Nova919 |
| Nova937 |
17-06-2007
SILVERCHAIR ON LATE LATE SHOW
It's been confirmed that Silverchair is booked to perform "Straight Lines" on the Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson on Thursday, July 12th.
For those of you who live in or near Los Angeles you might want to check out how to get tickets to the show!