Our dear friend Van Dyke Parks recently visited Australia as part of a music industry convention held in Brisbane. As you might know Van Dyke has been a long time member of the Silverchair family working with us  on orchestral arrangements for Diorama & Young Modern (his nickname for Daniel has always been Young Modern).

We wanted to draw your attention to some news pieces for those of you who are interested in reading more about Van Dyke's work.


Sydney Morning Herald
The Age
The Australian

We are very excited to report that Silverchair are up for the Channel [V] Artist of the Year!

Cast your vote and you can win yourself some great prizes!

VOTE HERE - http://www.vmusic.com.au/#/OzArtist/Silverchair

It was announced just moments ago that TOMORROW has come in at #33 on the TRIPLE J HOTTEST 100 OF ALL TIME.

Thanks to all of you out there for your votes!

Daniel had a chat down the line from New York this morning with the Triple J brekkie crew.
Listen to the interview here...

http://www.abc.net.au/triplej/media/s2601499.htm

Tune into Triple J breakfast on Thursday 18th June between 7.30am - 8.30am (AEST) to hear Daniel chat about all things SILVERCHAIR & TRIPLE J HOTTEST 100 OF ALL TIME. http://www.abc.net.au/triplej/

Voting is still open in the HOTTEST 100 OF ALL TIME.

Vote for your fave SILVERCHAIR songs at http://www.abc.net.au/triplej/hottest100_alltime/voting/

Silverchair have been back in the studio over the last few weeks!
Daniel, Ben & Chris recently got together in a remote studio for a bit over 3 weeks to work on some new songs.

They put down a bunch of ideas & Daniel has since gone away to write and develop the songs further.
The band made a small video themselves as a little special something just for you. There are no release plans yet.

Check out the EXCLUSIVE video here: http://www.chairpage.com/news/

Silverchair and touring buddies Powderfinger took home the gong for BEST MUSIC DVD at the 2008 ARIA Music Awards held in Sydney last night. The deluxe triple disc "Across The Great Divide" DVD features full length live sets by both bands and a behind the scenes doco "Behind The Great Divide". Silverchair's Chris and Powderfinger's Darren were on hand to collect the ARIA and thanked "everyone who came along to any of the shows". They also made special mention to the great work done by Reconciliation Australia.

Silverchair will be battling it out with 49 other Aussie artists to win the Channel [V] Oz Artist 2008 Award and you help decide who wins!

Voting can be done either online at the [V] Website or via SMS and voters are eligible to win a trip to Homebake with three of their mates as well as some cool weekly prizes over eight weeks. VOTE NOW and stay tuned for the Top 4 finalists announcement on Nov 7th.