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Silverchair: Daniel Johns
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The members of Silverchair were all born in 1979 and grew up in the Newcastle surf suburb of Merewether. Singer/guitarist Daniel Johns and drummer Ben Gillies started playing music together at primary school and schoolmate Chris Joannou later joined on bass. In the group's early days they were called Death Rides a Sandwich and their repertoire consisted mainly of Led Zeppelin, Deep Purple and Black Sabbath songs they had learned from their dads' old record collections. Click here to read more.
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In the build up prior to their Homebake performance, Silverchair performed a cover of Midnight Oil's "Don't Wanna Be the One" at the 2006 ARIA Awards as part of Midnight Oil's induction into the ARIA Hall of Fame. During the end of the performance Johns spray painted PG4PM (Peter Garrett for Prime Minister) on a stage wall, paying tribute to the Oils' frontman who is now a federal MP for the ALP[5].
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Les membres de Silverchair sont tous nés en 1979 à Newcastle en Australie. Le chanteur/guitariste Daniel Johns et le batteur Ben Gillies ont commencé à jouer de la musique ensemble à l'école primaire et ont rencontré plus tard à l'école leur futur bassiste Chris Joannou. Leur premier groupe s'appellait "Short Elvis", pour devenir très vite "Innocent Criminals", ils jouaient principalement des reprises de Led Zeppelin, Deep purple, Black Sabbath, musiques qu'écoutaient leurs pères.
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[O]n Saturday night a full house of Silverchair diehards at the Commodore showed its love. With an eight-year delay since its heroes' last Vancouver stand, the audience arrived with energy waiting to be unleashed–and unleashed it was, from a rousing chant of "Silverchair" before Johns and company walked on-stage to crowd-surfing during the set and a fight in the audience that Johns good-naturedly helped stop.
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You know, Silverchair aren't actually broken up. They're just on hiatus, which is why they still readily performed at Waveaid. Very personal song about Daniel Johns' battle with anorexia and recovery, as seen in the clip by him pushed in a wheelchair by himself.
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