News
14-03-2008
SILVERCHAIR NOMINATED FOR MTV AWARD
MTV announced this week that Silverchair have been nominated for the Australian Artist Music Award. The awards take place in Sydney on April 26th and broadcast live on MTV.
You can vote for SILVERCHAIR in this category now. Head to www.mtvawards.com.au/quick_vote.aspx to place your vote and you could win yourself some awesome prizes.
07-03-2008
ARIA #1 Chart Awards
Silverchair were awarded with two special ARIA #1 chart awards in Sydney yesterday. Ben and Chris were on hand to accept the awards for “Straight Lines” and “Young Modern” both of which topped the single and album charts respectively for four weeks each in 2007. They thanked “everyone who bought and played the album”.
Who could forget Silverchair’s big, big win at the ARIA Awards last year with five wins from their seven nominations including Album Of The Year and Highest Selling Single bringing their career tally to 19 ARIA Awards!!
26-02-2008
SILVERCHAIR – NEW SINGLE MIND READER
We are pleased to present to you Mind Reader! The fourth single taken from the hugely successful album YOUNG MODERN. It’s a digital single available online for you to purchase now. It also comes with an awesome live clip taken from the “Across the Great Divide Tour”. You can check the video out here or on Myspace.
If you would like to hear more of Mind Reader on your radio now then request the song from:
| Triple J | Hot30 |
| Triple M (Sydney) | Triple M (Melbourne) |
| Triple M (Adelaide) | Triple M (Brisbane) |
| Nova 96.9 (Sydney) | Nova 100 (Melbourne) |
| Nova 91.9 (Adelaide) | Nova 93.7 (Perth) |
| Nova 106.9 (Brisbane) |
You can also request the video from:
| Channel [V] | MTV |
19-02-2008
SILVERCHAIR SELECTED PLAYLIST ON IMEEM.COM
Silverchair recently selected a number of their favourite tracks for a guest playlist on online music community imeem.com.
Listen to the guys talk about tracks by Kraftwerk, Bjork, The Rapture and more online at silverchair.imeem.com
11-02-2008
RECONCILIATION AUSTRALIA
On February 13, the Prime Minister, Kevin Rudd, will issue a formal apology to Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Australians who were removed from their families and communities as children.
If you'd like more information and to read Daniel’s view on the topic head to www.reconcile.org.au
04-02-2008
HAVE YOU ATTENDED A RECENT BIG DAY OUT?
chairpage.com has a long standing and highly regarded tradition where
people send in their experiences from attended Silverchair shows. We
call them Road Reports and post them, unedited, to chairpage for everyone to read.
Unfortunately very few Road Reports for the recent Big Day Out tour have been received. If you have attended any of these
shows please tell us all about it by writing a review and sending it to
us. Include if you can anything that happened at the show "out of the
ordinary", anything humourous or simply what impacted you the most.
Please send what you've got (photos too - good quality only please) to webmaster@chairpage.com and we'll post them to chairpage with a credit to you.
02-02-2008
LAST WEEK!! FAN CLUB STORE PROGRESSIVE SALE (WEEK 8 of 8)
UPDATE - ALL CELLS HAVE NOW SOLD OUT.
The LAS (Silverchair's Official Fan Club) moved into the last week of its first ever progressive sale. As such their beautifully framed limited edition cells from the “Reflections of a Sound” video have been reduced by a further TEN DOLLARS to $100!!! (a massive $100 off the original price - WOW!). There will be no further price reductions. This is also the very last week that one lucky purchaser will have the opportunity to be selected at random to receive one FREAKBOX that has been personally signed by the band!!
Week seven's winner of the signed Freakbox is Jordan Claridge. Congratulations Jordan!
Week eight's winner of the signed Freakbox is Laurie Canham. Congratulations Laurie!
There was only 200 produced of each cell design, and over half of these have already been snapped up so get yours now before they sell out.
These items were produced exclusively by the band for the LAS and there will be no opportunity to purchase these anywhere else.
• All personally signed by Daniel Ben and Chris
• All hand numbered
• All come with a letter of authenticity
• All prices AUSTRALIAN dollars
Want to clarify anything? Email lasmerch@silverchair.net and we’ll try and help.
26-01-2008
CHAIR GET HOT
Silverchair have had the strongest showing of their entire career with "Straight Lines" making it to #2 on Triple J's Hottest 100 poll missing out on #1 by a mere 13 votes of the 700,000+ votes cast! The national youth broadcaster's annual list of their listeners' favourite songs of the year was announced today and is always a highlight for Australian music fans.
The great result for "Straight Lines" eclipsed every other Silverchair track. Previous highlights included "Tomorrow" (#5 in 1994), "Freak" (#13 in 1997), "Ana's Song" (#15 in 1999) and "The Greatest View" (#10 in 2002).
Daniel Johns was interviewed live on Triple J to accompany the announcement and expressed his sincere thanks to everyone who had voted for Silverchair in this year's poll.
Other songs from Young Modern to feature in this year's list were:
If You Keep Losing Sleep (#30)
Reflections Of A Sound (#80)
Check out the final Hottest 100.
24-01-2008
Triple J Hottest 100
The count down to the Hottest 100 songs of 2007 is happening on Australia Day - Saturday January 26. All of Australia will be listening from 10am eastern time (earlier in central and western states – it’s live around the country) as the songs are counted down from 100 to NUMBER ONE! The hottest song of all! Have you got your Hottest 100 party ready? What number will your favorite Silverchair songs be? Tune in!
If you live outside Australia don’t despair. Triple J streams live over the Internet so you won’t miss out!
24-01-2008
“The Greatest View”
Silverchair’s resurgence in the U.S continues with radio across the country adding “The Greatest View” to rotation. This week the song entered the U.S airplay charts in the Top 40. In the wake of “Straight Lines” strong U.S. showing it seems many in the media are seizing the chance to revisit this song.
“The Greatest View” EP is currently available in the U.S with the track listing as follows:
1. The Greatest View (Originally from "Diorama")
2. Straight Lines {The Presets Remix}
3. We're Not Lonely...BUT We Miss You (B-Side)
4. Barbarella (B-Side)
5. If You Keep Losing Sleep VIDEO
6. The Greatest View - Live From Carriageworks, Sydney VIDEO