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MUSIC FEATURE visit stack.com.au SILVERCHAIR DIORAMA In Album Tales, Bryget Chrisfield hits you with some juicy nuggets of wisdom surrounding classic records. This month it’s Silverchair’s mind-blowing corker from 2002, Diorama. Following the Neon Ballroom tour promoting their 1999 album of the same name, Silverchair announced they would take a year’s hiatus from performing live. Daniel Johns had been prescribed antidepressants for years, but, when he went off his meds and started feeling the full range of his emotions once more, Diorama – his self-described “detox album” – poured out in vivid technicolour: a fantasy place to escape to. During the excellent doco Across the Night: The Creation Of Diorama, Daniel reveals making their fourth record made Silverchair feel “young and enthusiastic” again. At this stage of their career, The Chair had signed with U.S. label giants Atlantic Records and were working with their biggest budget to date. But Atlantic initially shelved the album, with Daniel detailing during an interview: “The American record company wanted to pull so much stuff out of the arrangement and, you know, ‘American radio doesn’t play horns, can we get rid of that?’ and then, ‘Can we get Fred Durst from Limp Bizkit to produce it?’ And I was like, ‘Can everyone get f-cked?’” And aren’t we all super-stoked that he stood his ground!? The deleted Silverchair album Once the Neon Ballroom tour wrapped, Daniel demoed-up a bunch of new songs he’d written, inspired by California desert-rockers Kyuss. Then, after deciding these songs sounded too much like Silverchair’s previous output – and also fearing the band would back themselves into a corner if they continued down this heavy road – Daniel permanently erased these demos of material he’d been working on for about 18 months, and started over. Year 2002 point where my body started eating itself – that’s how upset I was.” During Diorama’s mixing process, Daniel started experiencing joint pain and swelling, which was later diagnosed as reactive arthritis. The ARIA performance that changed it all Because Silverchair’s management had the foresight to preserve the rights for Australia, Diorama was released in this territory in March, 2002 (even though Atlantic initially refused to put it out in the States). The album Painting with piano Even though he couldn’t debuted at #1 on the ARIA actually play the instrument Albums Chart, and was on its way out of the charts at the time, Daniel committed seven months later when to writing Diorama on piano. While teaching himself how the band was invited to to play, Daniel placed prints perform at the 2002 ARIA Awards (where The Chair by artists including Salvador Silverchair in 2002, L-R: Ben Gilles, collected five trophies). Dali and Brett Whiteley – Daniel Johns, Chris Joannou which inspired Across the Daniel has since revealed Night and Tuna in the Brine that he was only able to play guitar for about three minutes per day around this respectively – on top of his piano, detailing during time, so had to gradually build up his strength to an interview: “I was trying to score their work.” Paul Mac – who was later brought in to help manage The Greatest View’s 3:40-minute duration. translate Daniel’s vision – has admitted that, at the Following Silverchair’s performance of The Greatest View – resplendent with brass section time, he thought releasing Diorama could spell “commercial suicide” for Silverchair. plus Paul Mac on keys – Diorama rocketed back up the charts, which encouraged the band’s American Making Diorama took a toll on Daniel’s health label to finally release the masterwork. When Silverchair’s U.S. label reps heard And those who had been snoozing Diorama, they didn’t get it. “I remember the on Silverchair’s musical evolution? record company locking me up in the hotel They were suitably wowed... Daniel ly room, saying, ‘We need a rock single’,” Daniel Johns recent s announced hi recalled, “and it was just, like, I felt the album m new solo albu e was finished.” In the startlingly good Who Is Never, du re tu Fu Daniel Johns? podcast, he reveals, “It really Continue reading the full article out April 1! made me angry, and it really upset me to the online at stack.com.au JB UNCOVERED BONOBO Fragments GET IN ON THIS FRESH RELEASE Fragments is the most emotionally intense record that Bonobo has ever made. It’s no surprise that it’s also his masterpiece. Out January 14th. XX AUGUST 2020 st207_Uncovered.indd 1 st207_030_AlbumTalesSilverchair.indd 1 GRAB A COPY AT jbhifi.com.au 16/12/2021 3:11:32 PM 18/12/21 4:16 pm

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