Book description
First comprehensive biography of Silverchair featuring interviews with
all band members. Andrew Denton: 'I think you're enjoying life now.
Would I be right?' Daniel Johns: 'Yeah, definitely, I love life. It's
the best thing in the world.' - Denton, 2004 It's taken Daniel Johns a
long time to be able to make such a simple statement. Having spent more
than 10 years as the frontman for Silverchair, Australia's biggest rock
band of the past decade, he's endured teen stardom, depression,
anorexia, crippling reactive arthritis and the slings and arrows of the
music industry, only to emerge, tattooed and renewed. And now, the
Newcastle-born band have been recording in the famed Laurel Canyon
studios in LA and will release their fifth album early in 07 and hit the
road playing their own eccentric and feisty Oz Rock. A New Tomorrow
tells the complete and unexpurgated story of Silverchair. Apter
documents how Johns and his two schoolmates, drummer Ben Gillies and
bassman Chris Joannou, graduated from the loft above the Gillies' family
garage to centrestage of Madison Square Garden à Â- all within the time
it typically takes most bands to record their first single. When the
dust settled and they discovered their debut album, Frogstomp, had sold
almost three million copies, Silverchair were faced with an even bigger
challenge, as they attempted to prove they were much more than 'Nirvana
In Pyjamas'. With the release of their 2002 masterpiece, Diorama,
Silverchair firmly established their own musical identity, while Johns
has developed into a songwriter with few peers in modern music.
Featuring exclusive interviews with the band and all of those who have
worked with Silverchair over their rollercoaster ride of a career, A New
Tomorrow covers all of the band members' solo work, the Johns/Imbruglia
nuptials, the band's 'rebirth' at the WaveAid fundraiser. Jeff Apter
is the author of 10 books, including studies of Silverchair, Jeff
Buckley and cricketer Michael Slater. He is the Music Contributor for
Vogue, was the former Music Editor at Australian Rolling Stone, and has
been writing about popular culture for more than 20 years.
