Silverchair frontman Daniel Johns has announced he will be deleting his social media accounts to focus on his music career.
The 44-year-old shared a post to Instagram on Tuesday, tellings his fans that he’ll be shutting down his page to focus on his semi-autobiographical feature What If The Future Never Happened?’
He began: ‘I’m notoriously bad at stopping and smelling the roses so I’m putting this here to remind myself.’
‘This will be my final post for 2023 so I can go away to work on finishing orchestration and credit sequence for What If The Future Never Happened?’
‘I’m shutting my socials down, putting my phone in a drawer and getting back to work.’
Silverchair frontman Daniel Johns revealed he is deleting all his social media accounts and focusing on his music: ‘This will be my final post’
He went on to say that his 2022 album FutureNever was the ‘most gratifying creative experience of my career’ and he’s never ‘felt more connected to fans’.
‘What If The Future Never Happened? is coming in early 2024. I’m disappearing into the studio now to finalise the orchestration,’ Johns continued.
‘In pretty big personal news, I’ve just signed the most important songwriting deal of my career with BMG, including all of my songs from ‘Frogstomp’ to ‘FutureNever’ and everything in between.’
Johns also revealed he was presented with a huge plaque to mark FutureNever being announced as ARIA’s highest selling new n Album of 2022.
‘I don’t really hang plaques in my house but I’m hanging this one in my living room because it’s a reminder of the love from you all and it means more than you’ll ever know. It also lights up,’ he wrote.
He ended the post: I’m loving being a truly independent artist making everything on my own terms. Love you, I’ll find you in the NeverAfter.’
The 44-year-old shared a post to Instagram on Tuesday, tellings his fans that he’ll be shutting down his page to focus on his semi-autobiographical feature What If The Future Never Happened?’
Johns’ announcement comes after his former Silverchair bandmates Ben Gillies and Chris Joannou revealed exactly how the iconic rock band ended.
Writing about Silverchair’s demise in their newly-released joint memoir, the pair claimed that frontman Daniel put them on an ’emotional rollercoaster’ by breaking up the band multiple times – only to then change his mind.
However, things finally came to an end then the trio performed at the Groovin’ The Moo music festival in 2010.
Gillies said that he received a ‘confusing call’ from Johns shortly after the performance, saying the two words, ‘It’s inevitable’.
Johns’ announcement comes after his former Silverchair bandmates Ben Gillies and Chris Joannou revealed exactly how the iconic rock band ended
While Johns never explicitly said that the band was breaking up, Gillies and Joannou were later informed by their manager that it was over and that a press release announcing their ‘indefinite hiatus’ would be going out to the media.
‘We wanted to scream. It shouldn’t have ended like that,’ the pair write in their memoir, according to news.com.au.
‘Even if the three of us weren’t aligned on the way to go forward together, we deserved to go out in a way that celebrated our achievements as a band,’ they continued.
‘If it was really over, we deserved more than a press release that left everything floating in the ether, even if that was the agreed approach. At the very least, we owed it to ourselves to have a face-to-face adult conversation and make the decision together.’
Writing about Silverchair’s demise in their newly-released joint memoir, the pair claimed that frontman Daniel put them on an ’emotional rollercoaster’ by breaking up the band multiple times – only to then change his mind