Silverchair is Australia’s most successful contemporary rock band. The group has had more top twenty hits during the last decade than any other local artist and they have sold over six million albums worldwide.
     
      The members of Silverchair were all born in 1979 in the Newcastle surf suburb of Merewether. Singer/guitarist Daniel Johns and drummer Ben Gillies started making music together at primary school and schoolmate Chris Joannou later joined on bass. In the group’s early days they were called Innocent Criminals and their repertoire consisted mainly of Led Zeppelin, Deep Purple and Black Sabbath songs they had learned from their Dads’ old record collections.
     
      The trio played many shows around the Hunter Valley region in their early teens. They got their big break in mid-1994 when they won a national demo competition called Pick Me which was conducted by SBS TV show Nomad and youth radio station Triple J. The group’s entry was a song called Tomorrow which quickly landed them a recording contract.
     
      The band changed its name to Silverchair and in August... (More SILVERCHAIR Biography)