Daniel Johns Has 5 New Records To Out Next Year

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Former Silverchair frontman’s Daniel Johns has got a solo album, Talk, debuted last year and recently revealed there is plenty more where that came from. Johns told Lindsay McDougall, the Australian’s radio Double J presenter on his recent podcast with McDougall on the radio segment’s the J Files. “There’s a lot of things going on at the moment,” he says. “I’ve just got on this really OCD trip at the moment and just making sure that all of the next five records are ready to go in a year. It seems like I’m doing nothing but I’m doing a lot.” “They’re all completely different,” he says of the new material. “I’ve got a record with Luke Steele coming really soon. I've got another record coming with Jake (Meadows) who plays harp in the Talk band. Another record coming with another guy who I literally met a week ago. And, obviously, I would really love to do another solo record.” In last August, Johns has teased the long overdue collaboration with Empire Of The Sun leader Luke Steele on his Instagram post with a vintage pic of himself and Steele with the caption: “Early DREAMS cumin soon.”

Listen the full podcast via Double J below where Johns talked Silverchair story.

Watch Daniel Johns, Tame Impala, Courtney Barnett & More In Triple J’s Hottest 100 Trailer

Every year, an Australian radio program’s Triple J hosts a “Hottest 100″ contest which listeners vote for their favorite singles. The 100 winners are then celebrated during a massive party on Australia Day on Jan. 26. To campaign for votes, the station created a trailer featuring a goldmine of popular artists as actors. In a trailer shows Kevin Parker, Mark Ronson, The Wombats, Foals and Diplo are just a small handful of acts that appear in the video which tracks Triple J host’s Matt and Alex as they attempt to find out who’s kidnapping and torturing the artists. Along the way we see Alison Wonderland as a cop, Daniel Johns playing poker against Ice Cube and Courtney Barnett drag-racing against The Rubens. Watch the trailer below.

Stream Daniel Johns’ Full Audio Of Vivid LIVE Concert

Back in May, Daniel Johns took over the Sydney Opera House for some exclusive shows as part of Vivid LIVE. Joined by a live band, the former Silverchair’s Johns debuted the very first performances of songs like “Aerial Love,” “Preach” and “Cool On Fire” from his solo effort Talk in this iconic backdrop. Recorded on May 29th, listen the audio of the full performance below.

Watch Daniel Johns Interview & Perform “Cool On Fire” On TODAY

Daniel Johns stopped by the TODAY Show on recent week to chats with Nine’s entertainment editor Richard Wilkins, the former Silverchair singer spoke publicly for the first time in eight years as he discussed the meaning behind his new solo single, “Aerial Love”. In an interview Wilkins, the 35-year-old explains that the video – which shows a number of half-naked couples in the desert is all about ‘uninhibited love.’ The singer also briefly talks about his life since Silverchair. And, he also performed the new single off his new solo debut Talk called “Cool On Fire.” Watch the interview and the performance below.

Watch Daniel Johns Perform “Preach” On APRA Awards

It’s took nearly 8 years for Daniel Johns to follow up Silverchair’s last studio album with his own long-promised solo work, which he debuted earlier this year via the sultry and inspired track “Aerial Love.” The Silverchair frontman released his solo EP, Aerial Love, earlier this month, and performed song, “Preach”, for the first time at the APRA Music Awards last month. Taking place at Sydney's Carriageworks, Daniel made his return to music after having only performed sparingly in recent years. Watch the performance below.

Silverchair’s Daniel Johns Goes Online

After nearly three years since Aussie rocker Silverchair decided to go on “indefinite hibernation,” it’s been almost silence amongst of the trio. Their drummer Ben Gillies breaks the first silence when did an sideband project called Bento which Gillies fronted it. For their frontman Daniel Johns decided to go more privately on his life, ever on online world. Till yesterday Johns appeared to start a Facebook and Twitter account. Beyond his silence, Johns have previously has did a collaboration with multiple artist, performed with Josh Wakely for short film on TEDxSydney in 2011, recorded a theme song for Qantas airlines, performed with Kimbra and Australia legendary composer Van Dyke Parks at Adelaide Festival in early 2013 and recent collabration with Aussie rapper 360 on his song “Impossible” when Johns contribute a chorus part of the song. The duo also released a music video for the song today. Johns also confirmed by itself on his upcoming solo project is on worked and will drop later this year trough his new social network account, check below.

Watch Short Film Of Daniel Johns & Kimbra Perform With Van Dyke Parks

Back in March 2013, Silverchair frontman Daniel Johns teamed up with New Zealand singer Kimbra and legendary producer Van Dyke Parks to performed together in a special night at Australia annual music festival, Adelaide Festival 2013 which took place at the Thebarton Theatre. The short documentary shot by photographer Thomas Kerr, Kimbra shared her experienced with personal hero Johns, and Parks, a respected composer who’s worked with The Beach Boys, Joanna Newsom, Ry Cooder, and Silverchair. Johns had previously worked with Parks on Silverchair’s 2002 album Diorama, with the three performing songs from that record, as well as tracks from Parks’ universally acclaimed, though notoriously commercially unsuccessful, 1967 album Song Cycle. Watch their journey in a short documentary below.

Watch Daniel Johns Records New Song “Atlas” For Qantas

Former Silverchair frontman Daniel Johns has used his “indefinite hibernation” from Silverchair to create the soundtrack for the Australia airways, Qantas, for their Olympic advertising campaign in collaboration with the Australian Chamber Orchestra (ACO). The new song “Atlas” recorded with the ACO, Johns said he wanted to create a piece of music that represented Australia.  “I never had a brief before,” Johns says. “When Qantas first approached me, I agreed to the project as I was really into the idea of creating a piece of music that represented Australia. I wanted it to sound big, something special. It was a conscious effort to create a good piece of music and not just a jingle. I’ve also wanted to work with the ACO for a long time now so it was great to finally be able to do that. I’m really happy with how the song turned out.” Watch “Atlas” video below.



The original soundtrack, “I Still Call Australia Home”, written by Australian singer-songwriter Peter Allen in 1980, will still be used for special events, however Atlas will be taking the forefront in this year's Olympics campaign.

Watch Daniel Johns & Josh Wakely On TEDxSydney

Silverchair frontman and APRA’s Songwriter of the Year award three times winner, Daniel Johns teamed up with director, screenwriter and producer’s Josh Wakely on collaborative process on a short film, featuring the first public performances of some of the songs written for it. They performed together on Australia’s annually conference event TEDxSydney took place on May 28th at CarriageWorks, NSW. Watch below: