Too Much of Not Enough: A Silverchair Podcast

Designed to capture a positive new energy and explore a broad spectrum of emotion, 2002’s Diorama was an album that featured some of the most ambitious songs of the band’s career. Although it went tr…

This episode, we’ll cover the original B-sides from the Neon Ballroom era: Untitled and Trash. These songs represent a bridge between the darkness of Freak Show and the…different flavour of darkness …

This episode is a VERY special guest episode, where I speak to the one and only Nick Launay, the producer behind Silverchair’s Freak Show, Neon Ballroom and Young Modern. Not only that, Nick has work…

Silverchair’s 1999 album Neon Ballroom is the album that drew a line in the sand. With Neon Ballroom, the band had made a definitive statement: This is who we are now and we’re going to continue on t…

It’s happening! There was one piece of unfinished business for the podcast: I never got to the B-sides. It’s a daunting prospect so I’m taking it piecemeal. This episode, we’ll cover the original B-s…

That’s right, I’m breaking format! 

This episode is a bonus episode, where I speak to Kristen S. He, an award-winning music writer and one half of the pop duo Elle. She's always got a really interesti…

The difficult second album. Released February 3 1997, Freak Show hit number 1 on the ARIA charts and the first three singles were all in the top 10. It went double platinum in Australia and gold in t…

Recorded over nine days in late 94-early 95, Frogstomp saw a band raring to go and prove themselves as more than a one-EP wonder. Released March 27, 1995, Frogstomp hit number one on the ARIA and NZ …

It’s a tale as old a time: a band of 15-year-olds enter a battle of bands competition run by a TV show and a radio station. They win the competition and their prize is to record a four-song EP. That …

Don’t get excited (please!). Just a little update to let everyone know I might be re-uploading old episodes. I’ve noticed people still download the show regularly, so I thought if they came up organi…

In this episode, we’re going all the way back to 1995 to talk about Silverchair’s first true single from their debut album Frogstomp (if you’re Australian, anyway). I wanted to take a deeper look at …

Don’t get too excited but I’ve just uploaded a mini-episode that’s essentially a repost of the Tuna in the Brine section from the first Diorama episode. Those episodes were really long and I noticed …

In this episode, I speak to someone without whom you probably would never have heard of the band Silverchair. Not only did he essentially discover them and, in his role as a Sony A&R sign the band to…

Wait, what is this episode? I’m glad you asked. I’ve decided to go back and delve a bit deeper into some of the older songs and give them the treatment I would have given them had they appeared on on…

Young Modern got great reviews at home in Australia but, by now, even the good reviews overseas failed to set the world on fire. An early promotional tour of the US in mid-2007, where they gritted th…

Released March 31, 2007, Young Modern debuted at number one on the ARIA chart, eventually going three-times platinum in Australia. The album also won six ARIAs and its lead single, Straight Lines, pl…

The long-fabled mailbag and FAQ episode has arrived. In this episode, I answer your questions and share my thoughts on a lot of different things, including but not limited to: what happens when I run…

In this episode, I welcome another very special guest. He’s the guitarist from multi-platinum selling band Good Charlotte and, as it happens, he’s also a MASSIVE fan of Silverchair. It’s the one and …

Daniel Johns and Paul Mac’s The Dissociatives was largely recorded in a two-week period over the English summer, where Daniel was living with his fiancée Natalie Imbruglia. The idea behind the songs …

In this episode, I welcome a very, very, very VERY special guest. And I know I say that a lot and it’s always true. But this time, I’ll be talking to Ben Gillies. That’s right, the drummer from the b…