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In November of 2005, Silverchair announced they were working on music for their 5th studio album, titled Young Modern. Throughout 2006, the band played a limited number of concerts in Australia to try out the new material in front of a live audience. Young Modern is set for release in Australia on March 31st with their first single,
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Silverchair followed up the blackness of Neon Ballroom with the brighter Diorama. Silverchair have matured as musicians and fully realised their potential in making Diorama. Johns uses a wide range of instruments as a colourful musical palette. The band's sound is augmented by orchestral backing on many tracks. There are ... guest musicians, such as Jim Moginie from Midnight Oil, and Paul Mac who later collaborated with Johns as The Dissociatives.
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Silverchair fans got their first taste of Diorama when the first single "The Greatest View" was released to radio networks in Australia in early December 2001. The single was then released January 28, 2002, to coincide with the band’s appearance on the Big Day Out tour. Singer Daniel Johns has said he was so medicated for his reactive arthritis during the tour that he barely remembered playing.
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With "Straight Lines," Silverchair becomes the third Australian act (following the Easybeats and the Seekers) to score three No. 1 singles, according to chart historian Gavin Ryan. Releasing the track digitally three weeks before the CD version "reinforced radio and retail confidence in the song," Watson says. The band this week ... announced its first indoor concerts in Australia in nearly four years.
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Silverchair is celebrating the release of "Young Modern" with an extensive tour of the United States. However, four July shows were postponed until November because Johns suffered a throat infection. [See the itinerary below for details.] Johns' illnesses, namely reactive arthritis and anorexia, have plagued the band during the last couple years, keeping the band from recording and touring. Aside from the throat infection, Gillies said Johns, who's married to soap opera star turned pop singer Natalie Imbruglia, is doing fine.
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Silverchair toured extensively in support of the album propelling it to stronger worldwide sales than they had achieved with Freak Show. In Europe and South America it became the group’s most successful album to date, touring live and including appearances at festivals such as Reading and Edgefest and tours with bands like Red Hot Chili Peppers and blink-182. After all this touring the band announced that they would be taking a 12 month break.
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