What Is Daniel Johns From Silverchair Doing Now?

Daniel Johns is working on his second solo album, FutureNever, which will be released on 22 April 2022.

Johns is also one half of The Dissociatives with Paul Mac and one half of Dreams with Luke Steele. He released his first solo album, Talk, in 2015.

In 2007, Johns was ranked at number 18 on Rolling Stone’s list of The 25 Most Underrated Guitarists.

Johns has won 21 ARIA Awards from 49 nominations as a member of Silverchair, and has earned four other nominations as a solo artist.

At the age of 12, Johns and school friends Ben Gillies and Chris Joannou formed a band, originally named “The Innocent Criminals”, and practised daily after school for periods of four hours or more.

The band’s career began when the three members were 15 years old when a demo recording of their song “Tomorrow” won a competition that was run by the SBS TV programme Nomad.

The group, now named Silverchair, subsequently accepted a three-album deal from Sony Music in 1994, and the label hurriedly released their first album Frogstomp in 1995 after “Tomorrow” remained in the No. 1 position on the Australian singles chart for six weeks.

The band released Freak Show in 1997, followed by Neon Ballroom in 1999, and then Diorama in 2002. Following Diorama, Silverchair embarked on a lengthy hiatus before the release of the next album.