These are some useless facts about silverchair. Actually they're not actually "useless" some are actually good. I apoligize if most of the info are on Ben and Daniel, it's so hard to find anything on Chris. Anyways if you have any please send me some. I'll try to update or add some as often. Oh yeah, they're not in particular order. I'm just thinking of them on the top of my head.
- Daniel wrote Neon Ballroom in the process of 3 months
- Daniel wrote about 112 poems in three months
- Ben describes Daniel as a "hermit" someone who does nothing
- Daniel was going to break up silverchair after the Freak Show tour
- After seeing Kiss: Live at Wembley, Daniel's dream is to play at Wembley Stadium
- Ben and Chris share hotel rooms because they like to enjoy eachothers company
- Daniel hates it when people ask him what time it is on the beach
- Daniel had 2 eye brow rings but says one got ripped off and I guess the other grew out
- Daniel owns about 24 guitars (he probably owns more now)
- Daniel's brother Heath is in a band called "Army of Prawns" (their first major gig is in Newcastle, Australia on July 31)
- Chris has a girlfriend for about 3 years now
- Ben can't wait to get a notepad (computer) so he can send his girlfriend love letters
- Daniel is rumoured to have a girlfriend
- Daniel hasn't had a girlfriend since he was 14
- Daniel likes to read his sisters' (Chelsea) teen mags
- Sweep (Daniel's beloved dog) makes a guest appearence on "Steam Will Rise"
- Daniel hates designer clothes because he says, "It's giving money to people who already got too much", Kerrang!
- Ben got his hair cut because it was getting in his way of drumming
- Daniel's idols when he was a kid was Mr. T., and Richie Blackmore (Deep Purple)
- Serial Joe says that silverchair is one of their inluences (okay, they suck but anyways...)
- silverchair said that one of the down-points of touring with their parents is that they smoke
- Courtney Love (from Hole) wants Daniel bad, according to Daniel (He was being sarcastic by the way)
- It was revealed that Daniel has asthema when he had to go home after the 1997 ARIA awards (he was out of breath and had to go home to his "puffer")
- When Soundgarden broke up, Daniel got pissed off because they were one of his favourite bands
- A fan tried to rip off Daniel's bag when he was signing autographs
- The last time Daniel cried was when he was 14, when a bandsaw (I have no clue what that is) went straight through his foor
- Daniel fell in a watering can when he was little
- When they were little, Ben and Daniel convinced Chris to eat an orange crayon saying that is was cheese (poor kid)
- Ben and Chris were friends since they were six and Daniel became friends with them in grade 3
- Ben hooked up with his current girlfriend when he thought that she was a "hot babe"
- Daniel didn't really want to sing but rather play just the guitar
- Ben wouldn't trade places with Daniel in a million years because he couldn't stand the "crazy chicks" that Daniel has to put up with
- Chris knows how to play the bass, guitar and drums
- Daniel's last meal would be his veggie soup that he makes
- Daniel claimed that he was once the "Amazing Plant Boy" (a creature that sustained itself on sunlight and could provide enough oxygen for three other people in an airtight container for several hours)
- When Ben and Daniel were 12, Daniel said that he would sing only until they found a singer (um...I guess they found the perfect one)
- Ben and Daniel used to have braces
- Chris and Daniel are right handed while Ben is left
- Daniel's used to play the trumpet and violin when he was 8 and used to be in the Boy Scouts
- Daniel's favourite shows are Neighbours (an Australin soap that had Kylie Minogue and Natalie Imbruglia) and Rickie Lake (in which he like watching with his dog)
- Ben drives a Holden Commodore (a Chevy esque vechicle) that is white and has tinted windows
- Ben bought his first drum kit when he was 8 for $75 and later went to sell it for about $400
- Daniel's favourite drink is V8 and orange juice
- Chris tried writing on his own but says it, "sucked and was origional"
- Daniel currently drives a metallic blue Mercedes Kompressor (he bought it due to tax reasons) but used to drive a XP '66 Ford (which he describes it as a "rockin' mobile)
- Ben hates reading because it's really boring (actually it depends on what you're reading)
- Daniel describes his first shag to be really uncomfortable and boring and he felt like, "a dumb piece of shit". (I don't know if he's joking or not)
- silverchair hates the song "Cicada" (from Frogstomp) and "donated" it to the "crap songs of our time" to Kerrang!
- Daniel thinks that Fiona Apple is nice looking
- Ben eats boiled eggs with runny yolk for breakfast and dips his toast in the yolk (Chris seems disgusted by this)
- A button up shirt is, "nice for going out on a date or out in town with the boys." according to Ben
- the lowest weight Daniel been recently was 50Kg (about 110 Lbs) due to his eating disorder
- Heath (Daniel's brother) recently turned vegetarian
- It pissed Ben off when critics think of them as a "boy band" (referring them as one of the Backstreet Boys or N' Sync)
- Daniel has been a vegetarian for 3 years and vegan for about a year and a half
- Chris gets "pissed" when he's drunk (meaning not mad but crazy)
- During a 1997 show in Perth, Australia, Adalita (from Magic Dirt) adledgely "raped" Daniel while he was playing and tried to kiss him
- Adalita and Daniel were rumoured to be dating
- Daniel wore grey underwear when he was playing in Perth in 1997
- Daniel gets pissed (well not really but annoyed) when people ask him about the beach incident with Dave Navarro (at the Intimate and Interactive in Toronto when someone asked him about that he looked down and leaned his head to the mike)
- Daniel doesn't drink because of stomach ulcers
- Ben is the shortest member of silverchair at about 5'7 (Chris is 5'8 and Daniel is 5'11)
- Daniel hates dance music and if his kids (if he chooses to have any) ever listens to it, he'd ground them (I think that he's joking)
- Chris would go back to the '70s if they could go back to any music era
- Daniel used to break dance when his was little and his first song was, "a little rap tune"
- Ben's dad is a plummber, Daniel's dad owns a fruit market and Chris' dad works at a dry cleaners
- Chris started to play the bass when Daniel and Ben approached him to play it when they thought that they sounded like shit without a bass
- silverchair did a condom commercial in Australia
- Daniel wears Max Factor mascara (I think Calorie 2000) because it increases the lashes by 200% (he was most likely being really sarcastic)
- Ben describes travelling when on tour to be, "one of the most crappiest things in the world."
- Chris doesn't talk much (obvioulsy) because he has to, "limit his vocal chords" (this explains a whole bunch)
- Daniel says that "Ben is a very likeable person who isn't an "arse" to anyone"
- "There's definitly a side to being in a successful band that no one really knows about, unless you've actually done it. But when you're on stage and people are getting into something that you've put everything into, I don't think there's a better feeling in the world." - Daniel Johns
- Chris has a new dog, a pug named Gus
- Daniel's best class in school was English and Marine Biology while Ben hates English and took advanced math but dropped it due to the touring
- Chris' girlfriend's name is Renee and Ben's is Kate
- When Unwritten Law opened for silverchair in Los Angeles (1995) they invited them to a party but had to decline because their "mums" smelled pot in "Laws" dressing room
- silverchair's record company didn't let Ben and Daniel do interviews together because they would always talk to eachother and ignore the interviewer
- John Watson (the bands manager) used to write for Australian Rolling Stone
- Tobin, (the bands old fourth member) used to play the rhythem guitar for "The Innocent Criminals" but moved to England for a year and came back to find out that silverchair landed a record deal and a contract only for three people (silverchair won't comment what Tobin said)
- when silverchair won the Nomad Pick Me contest, Daniel was over at Chris' house
- Ben wears boxers because he says wearing briefs feels like someone's got a hold of you for 24 hours
- Chris learned the bass in just 3 months
- When Daniel and Ben approached Chris to play the bass, he was already learning the accoustic guitar
- Daniel doesn't want to go to jail because he's afraid to get raped
- instead of touring, Daniel would rather do a live show on the internet
- Sweep comes in on "Steam Will Rise" at approx. 3:20
- Chelsea takes care of Sweep when Daniel is on tour
- Daniel moved out of his rented beach house in Newcastle because his neighbours didn't like the loud music or his dog. They gave him an ultimatium saying that he had to get rid of Sweep or move out
- silverchair didn't know how big Frogstomp was until Freak Show came out
- they always denied that they were popular so people wouldn't think that they were arrogant but when they denied it people thought of silverchair like that
- Daniel has an Animal Liberation tattoo of an eagle
- when asked who was Ben's fave supermodel, he said it was his girlfriend because she looked like one
- Daniel plans to enroll into art school eventhough he says that he isn't any good at art
- Daniel spent over $4000 on movies in a video store in 1998
- Bo and arapax (Paxil) are anti-depressiant drugs sold in Australia
- Ben wants to name silverchair "Ben and the Girths"
- Killing Heidi played a cover of "Tomorrow" on Triple J
- Ella Hooper (Killing Heidi) couldn't wait to meet Daniel Johns because gave teens the dream to become musicians a reality