Silverchair - artykuły

HenryLee · Wysłany: Czw Mar 29, 2007 11:25 Temat postu: Silverchair - artykuły

Young and Modern - The Courier Mail

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Kathy McCabe, 29.03.07

IN A state of anxiety and sleep deprivation as he wrote Young Modern, Daniel Johns wondered out loud if he was too old to be doing it.

Most bands don't get to do five albums, let alone by the time they are aged 27.

"I kinda got stuck because I'd been writing it for so long and I was like 'Are we too old to be doing it?' There's gonna be all these young kids coming up and they are going to be better and they are going to have better ideas and it made me feel really old," he says.

"I was talking to someone about it and they were like 'Dude, you're 27. You're younger than Wolfmother'.

"That clicked something in my mind that maybe we've still got a few more years."

To many fans and observers, Silverchair remain frozen in time as the three 14-year-olds who burst out of Newcastle with the grunge anthem, Tomorrow.

But their appearance at the WaveAid tsunami benefit heralded their arrival as men and, like anyone flipping through an old photo album, Johns feels divorced from that shy teenager who hid behind a mop of blond hair.

"It feels really weird to us, that perception that we are the three boys from Silverchair. Kinda funny but kinda weird," he says.

"Age is a weird thing when you're famous, eh? I think it was Drew Barrymore or someone like that said whatever age you become famous at is the age people always think of you . . . so we're just going to stay at 14."

Except they haven't. Young Modern is the sound of a songwriter and his band who have not only physically matured.

Johns is the captain of the ship and has been since he stated for the record during the Neon Ballroom days that he was assuming creative control.

His musical partners, Ben Gillies and Chris Joannou, were happy to make their contributions, to help him realise his lofty ambitions and good mate Paul Mac has been along for the ride since Diorama.

But like every Silverchair album, Young Modern had a fraught gestation.

This time around, Johns had to battle sleep deprivation due to anxiety and it's all over the record in songs such as If You Start Losing Sleep, Insomnia and Those Thieving Birds.

"Music makes me anxious but if I don't do it, I'm more anxious," he laughs.

"I was really, really obsessive compulsive about this record. Even my wife was like 'I can't f---in' wait until you've done this record because you are going weird'. Even Paul and Ben and Chris were all like 'I can't wait for this phase to be over, you're going crazy'.

"I was in this bubble and I couldn't sleep. And if I was out drinking, I'd suddenly smash glasses against the wall and had no idea I was doing it. It was awkward. Maybe it also stemmed from the fact I knew I wasn't going to have a day off for six months."

Recorded in Los Angeles, Sydney and Prague, the record was funded by a payout Silverchair received from Atlantic Records in the US when they dropped them from the label and a run of festivals last year.

The ambitious project was over budget by the time they were halfway through, well before Johns, Mac and Beach Boys arranger Van Dyke Parks – who had worked on Diorama – recorded the strings in Prague.

But Johns was determined to nail the musical vision in his head.

"I've committed to not saying how much it cost but it was more expensive than Diorama and Diorama was expensive," he says.

"We're not in debt to anyone but ourselves so we'll have to tour for a while to make it back.

"But it's all right because the record sounds good. This is probably the first record that we've done where it sounds like everything is exactly how I wanted it to be."

Part of that sonic blueprint was the sound of a band playing together in a room.

"At the root of this record is four guys crammed into the one studio doing all the takes together and that's why it sounds really pure and natural," he says.

"It's hard to find musicians who have the same standard control. Every time I walk into rehearsals – uncharacteristically late – and I hear them play, it's like 'Yeah I'm in that band. It's a good feeling, I love the way those guys play'."

He also credits his creative partnership with Paul Mac for influencing Young Modern's grander pop songs.

Mac has been a mentor and a close friend for many years.

Wary of shutting himself off in his Newcastle home as he did during Diorama, Johns would sometimes decamp to Mac's Sydney home during the writing process.

"He was working and I'd be sitting on his lounge and writing. When he'd get home, I'd have a song for him to check out. I'd write songs just to entertain Paul a lot of the time. And the other songs, well, it was trying to entertain myself, to keep boredom away," Johns says.

"I owe so much to that guy in my career and everything. He's always been the guy I've trusted completely to show everything to. He'll tell me when the eight minute opera section in the middle of a song needs to go.

"And he made me appreciate pop music."

The fans have already agreed that the first taste of Young Modern is to their liking with the band's first new single since 2003, Straight Lines, at No. 1 for two weeks.

The pre-orders for Young Modern guarantee it a No. 1 debut on the ARIA album charts after its release on Saturday.

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Po przeczytaniu tego artykułu, Mac, który od pewnego czasu był mi obojętny, ponownie zaczyna mnie drażnić Confused

(a raczej drażni mnie to, jaki wpływ miał na Young Morern)

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seph · Wysłany: Czw Mar 29, 2007 12:43 Temat postu:

"And he made me appreciate pop music."
ehhhhh......

HenryLee

No, ehhhhh. Za dużo organowego 'plumkania' jest na YM. Ale podobno w trasę z nimi nie jedzie Wink

Wrzucam jeszcze kilka artykułów, bez sensu jest umieszczanie każdego w osobnym temacie:

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Bisior93

Sam nie mogę w to uwierzyć, że tak dużo gazet piszę na temat SC. Niedługo przyjdzie czas na "Teraz Rock" i "Kultura" - dodatek do Dziennika Very Happy

HenryLee

Wcale mnie to nie dziwi - to są australijskie gazety. Byłabym zaskoczona gdyby w ogóle o nich nie pisali.

NeonDevil

W końcu to ich najlepszy towar eksportowy Wink

HenryLee

Zmieniłam nazwę tematu. Jak pisałam wcześniej, bez sensu jest zakładanie nowego tematu dla każdego artykułu (no, chyba, że byłby jakiś wyjątkowy Wink

). I tak większość pozostaje bez odpowiedzi.

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