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Good To See The Courier Mail Are On The Pulse

9:33AM Clem Bastow | Last week we alerted you to Everett True’s Guardian-enabled whining about how much Australia’s music press sucks and blah blah Silverchair blah, and you reacted accordingly (“I’m surprised he’s still kicking” – Born D). Well, the trickle down effect has finally made it to the offices of the Courier Mail some five days later, where all sorts of outrage and indignation is being thrown about: Queensland’s music press has hit back, with one editor of a local music newspaper dismissing the British music guru as “irrelevent”. “It’s a really poor piece of journalism from a music writer who once had relevance and influence, but now he’s living in Australia, he doesn’t really have the knowledge or experience of the local industry to back up his opinions,” said the industry source. More »

Bernard Fanning And Daniel Johns Talk All Things Music

3:25PM Jess McGuire | They’ll be tour buddies soon enough, but for now Silverchair frontman Daniel Johns and Powderfinger head honcho Bernard Fanning are content to just sit down and shoot the shit with Paddy Donovan from The Age. Johns wears army pants, an emerald-green suit coat over a white T-shirt, a pink scarf and black Blundstones. His eyes are smeared with blue-green eye shadow, his chin adorned with a manicured goatee. Note that Donovan manages to avoid using the word “bloodshot” in the above description, and resists the temptation to point out the bottle of Murine, the Mount Franklin bottle with a piece of garden hose jutting out of it, and the Midnight Oil album all clearly visible in Johns’ backpack. This is called journalism, people! WE KID, LAWYERS! More »

Daniel Johns Learns An Important Lesson – Huffing Bongs With Bono And Peter Garrett Will At Some Point Come Back To Haunt Your Vocal Chords

4:45PM Jess McGuire | Of course, we jest somewhat. Daniel and friends prefer a nicely rolled joint to a bong Daniel never inhaled in the company of renown drug hating celebrities Bono and Peter Garrett MP. Nevertheless, things are not good in the world of Johns’ throat, as Silverchair’s performance of Straight Lines on Jay Leno’s show will attest. Although we’d never really liked Silverchair in the past, the release of Straight Lines saw Defamer Australia become freakishly obsessed with the song back in March, and we still hold it in high esteem. In fact, when people ask us how our attempt to quit smoking is going, we quite often break into the first few lines of the chorus. We then follow this with a spot on imitation of Daniel Johns’ shoulder shimmy in the break down bit of the video clip, and then find ourself apologising profusely to friends and loved ones for once again horrifying them with our complete idiocy. MOVING ON. Check out the less than stellar vocals in Silverchair’s performance of Straight Lines on Leno after the jump, kids. More »

I’m A Sex Change And a Damsel With An MTV Award…

1:18PM Jess McGuire | Oooh! Oooh! OooooooooooOOOooooooooh! Those elderly buggers Silverchair will be honoured with a Lifetime Achievement Award at this Sunday night’s MTV knees up. “This award is MTV Australia’s way of thanking Silverchair for providing a fantastic and progressive soundtrack to many of our viewers’ lives,” MTV Networks Australia executive producer Ean Thorley said. “In the eyes of MTV Australia there couldn’t be a more perfect choice for their first Video Vanguard Award than Silverchair.” The group exploded onto the international music scene in 1995 as bright-eyed and long-haired teenagers with their debut album Frogstomp and have since started to rival Madonna in the art of reinvention. We were planning on celebrating this cheery news by doing a Best Of collection of Daniel Johns’ hideous lyrics over the years (“No more maybes, your baby’s got rabies” etc), but by god. He’s so pretty now! And he’s writing tunes, goddamnit! Let’s just watch him looking pretty and singing a nice song. That sounds soothing. More »