~*SILVERCHAIR FREAKS*~ #19 09/28/97

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Welcome! This our first Saturday issue, I hope this new date works out alright. Well, along with the new day I wanted to add a new section, I'm not sure excatly what it will be though. So please plesae please send in ideas, I want something exciting! I have also been updating my web page, if anybody feels the need to go check it out please do so, and please sign the guest book. And if any of you have pages that aren't already linked to the page let me know and I'll link them. Alright, that's it, now on with the list..
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~*SILVERCHAIR NEWS*~
The big news this week would be that silverchair have won the artist of the year award at Australia's ARIA (their equivilent of The American Music Awards or Grammys or something)!! Although they didn't win the other 6 awards they were nomenated for they did win Artist of the year, which was an award that the fans could vote for. They also won best cover artwork for Freak Show! That gives them a total of 8 ARIA that they have won in the past three years. In other news, their next single "The Door" is being released on October 6th in Australia and Europe. The single will however not be sold in America or Canada, unless by import sales, and I am not sure of the radio realse date for America and Canada either. A video should be shot realitively soon. The CD will contain the following b-sides: Surfin Bird(which can also be found on the MOM CD), And Roses, Minor Threat, and Madman as preformed live on April 20th at The Aragon Ballrom in Chicago IL(That was a GREAT show btw, I was there). As of now, silverchair are back at home and finishing up their final two months of high school.
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~*NEW MEMBERS*~

*Name:Gr|'
*Age:unknown
*Where from:Southern Califonira "dude"
*Favorite silverchair member:me of course silly...
*Favorite silverchair song:eh... this is a hard one... umm... love them
*all but i love Freak/slave/shade/tommorow/abuseme/madman/i don't like
*the door too much...
*Favorite silverchair CD:frogstomp/freakshow.. heh
*Why you like them:they rock
*What other bands you like:chillin 'MA'HING PUMPK|Nz,NIRVANA,foo
*fighters(love everlong),megadeth,metallica,little pantera,machbox20,the
*third eye blind song heh...(that's not a band),BUSH, i know i'm missing
*manny damnit!, just too hard of a questiong *sniff* ... so i'll leave
*you freak's with a etc.... :)

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~*POSTS*~
To:schubert@uic.edu
From:schubert@uic.edu
Subject: a freak that i'm sure....

Hey everybody, how is everyone?
Good! I'm glad yr all doing so well..

Um, well to start off this post this week I was on the phone the other night with one of my friends and we were talking about silverchair (big surprise) we got on the subject of them graduating and all that stuff, and then we were thinking, do they have a prom coming up soon? Cause if Australia's school year, even though it is very diffrent then our American school year, if they are graduating in November shouldn't their prom be relitivly soon? Just wondering if anybody knows this tell me okie?

Speaking of them graduating, I remember a while back Daniel saying that he was going to move out of his family's house when he turns 19, that's like in a few months really, like half a year or so, so what kinda changes do you think that's going to present? Do you think he'll actually move out?

With regards to Daniel's recent fasination with swearing, I personally see no harm in it. In fact, I see the same kinda thing with most of the teenage boys I know! Once they hit a certin age it's like they will try and fit 'Fuck' or whatever into as many sentences as posible. I personaly think it's rather funny, I mean it's not like he means any harm by it.. it's just stupid!

Now, back to the questions of the week..

Okie, so if I could pick a song to represent each of them (Daniel, Ben, Chris) I'd have to go with these:

Ben: .A.D.I.D.A.S. by KoRn, it's perfect i'm telling you! *heh* I mean, if you haven't heard the song you probably won't understand but as far as I know, this is Ben's theme song. Hell, he even choose to see the video for it when they were on JBTV!

Daniel: hmm.. Well, any of his songs really. Maybe The Closing. But if I had to pick a song for him by another band I might pick The Deftone's Bored(his choice song on JBTV) I mean, he always just seems so Bored lately..Or maybe Faget by KoRn, *heh* no really, I mean think about it, Faget's about being teased about being gay and stuff.. and I dunno Daniel just seems like he'd be teased and tourchered or maybe he even is like that.. I have heard SO many rumors that he's actually gay..those are just my ideas for him as of now.

Chris: god.. I dunno.. Chris is so I duno. I can't think of a song that might be remotly for him *heh* oh well!

And for a group theme I'm going to have to go with Minor Threat, by Minor Threat. It's just so perfect for them!

And now my thoughts on Isreal's Son: This song I can't say I realate to, really, but when I'm really pissed this is the song that I need to blast. It's really the perfect outlet for anger as far as music goes.. the music as well as the lyrics are the perfect sounds for someone's anger building up, like how it starts out just kinda simple with Chris' bassline, but it's driven and you deffonitly hear a point to it, and then everything sotra builds up and then at the end it's just all this rage and it just kinda explods. Not to mention it's a hella good song to mosh too! And they lyrics are so expressive of hate and anger and rage. I love this song!

Alright that's it from me this week,
now I'm off to study for a few tests..
yuck..

Later!
Heidi

To:Schubert@uic.edu
From:"Raven "
Subject:Rockstock review

Okay, here's my boring review! My bestfriend and I got to Tinley Park around 2. I held my breath as we were checked because my mom had a camera hidden in her bag for me. Luckily it wasn't found, so we ditched my mom and went to watch the other bands. My favorite on the main stage was defintely Local H, after they were done Heather and I walked around waiting for Veruca Salt to play. We wandered over to the second stage to see what was going on when I saw Katie, who I'd gone to my last silverchair show with in Milwaukee, and her friend Kindra. They'd been standing by the gate, that was keeping us unimportant people away from the bands, for a few hours watchng the band. I was mad I'd missed silverchair arriving, but I also decided I was glad I wasn't so pathetic that I missed all the other great bands to stand by a gate. We decided to stay for a while, just to talk to Katie of course (yeah right), and Ben comes out to tune his drums. Veruca Salt was soon forgotten. All the little teenies scream for him to come over, including the little ten year old beside me who has purple hair and who told me earlier she wanted to marry Ben. I was a bit embarrassed but stayed to observe. Every once in a while it looked like he might come over but he never did =( Then just as I was about to leave to find a good place to stand I see my friend Carrie on the other side of the gate. I must have stood there for a full minute with my mouth open, when I yelled at her to come talk to me. It turns out she somehow talked her way back there. I was jealous, but at least she could give me a full report. So finally we left the gate to get a good spot to see the 'chair. It was already pretty packed, but we were able to shove our way up to about 6 rows back in the center, a bit closer to the left side. silverchair finally comes out and starts with madman. The pit goes wild. I'm not exaggerating when I say it's the worst one I've ever been in. It wasn't long before I couldn't stand or breathe. I needed to get out, but I was enveloped with people with no escape route, I panicked a little but somehow Heather was able to grab me and pull me all the way up to the front where we hung on to the barricade just a bit to the left of Daniel. It was the perfect place to see, and you were able to jump around with out totally falling on your ass. I got a couple of pictures which didn't really turn out all that well, but oh, well. It was suffocatingly hot and security people kept pouring water over top of everyone. It felt good until this one moron kept throwing it repeatedly right in my face! I saw tons of people carried out hurt and crying, and no one could get the crowd to calm down. Daniel made it worse when he said something like "I don't see a solution for this so jump motherfuckers jump!" Everytime he'd say this it got worse but it still rocked! Daniel kept talking about coming down to kick our asses, and about going to the hood. And when he started a chours of halleluiah I was a bit disturbed, he was weird. I don't know how to describe it, but it was just so memorized what he was going to say, and frankly I don't understand why he feels the needs to swear repeatedly to get out attention, like silverado said last issue, it starts out funny, but after a while it jut sounds stupid. I must say I loved Daniel's dreads, and once Ben looked over where we were standing and when I waved i swear he smiled (ok, I know I was probably hallucinating but I can think this is I want to!) They played my fave Spawn, and then Isreal's Son and it was over way too soon. Heather and I found Katie after the show, she and Kindra had been taken to first aid, and Kindra was taken to the hospitial, ouch! But this was the best show I've ever been to! If you read all this, thank-you I know it wasn't real exciting reading!

Raven

To: u64247@uicvm.uic.edu
From: "*zerogirl* *chairgirl*"
Subject: lalala, i rule the world

Hey all you freaks and a special hey there to Heidi~~~

To Raven~
Definitely send the RockStock review!!! It was a freaking cool show. However, the pits were something else. Anyway, maybe we should start a hunting group to find a boot of RockStock (well...just sc!) I also agree with the figeting thing. I just HATE that. I yell at my tv "Damn you! Stop picking at yourself!!!" that annoys me more than anything. And Daniel is the worst. He always goes for the neck, in case you havent' noticed.... *grrrr*

Ben's theme song~~~ ADIDAS by Korn. Tell me that's not perfect for him. Chris, hmmm... "Silent All these Years" by Tori Amos. Well, perhaps just the chorus of the song. and Daniel... I have to pick "The Closing". That is an autobiography, IMO.

One last thing (sorry Heidi, babe, for advertising..hehehe). Go visit my page and enter the contest. It's really easy!!!! =) And then go join the Isle of Gillies. We were orignially the Gillies Fighters, but after that small bit, we expanded. I mean, come on, Ben deserves more than an army. He still has one. Our island needs protection.

I'm done speaking now....
Laters, Sarah
Leader Chick of the Isle of Gillies and Supreme Commander of the Gillies
Fighters

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"you are dumb. you are dumb. i think you are dumb. i just think you're dumb. i'm just putting my opinion forth, i think you're dumb, dumb, dumb."
~ben gillies

Visit my loverly page: Stomping Ground
https://www.angelfire.com/il/stompingground/index.html
Enter the contest! It's really cool! =)
and while you're at it, join The Closing, my ever so cool
silverchair mailing list. It comes out when I feel like it
TO JOIN:
email the_closing@rocketmail.com with subscribe in the subject

Then you gotta visit my Ben page!!! The Isle of Gillies, and the
Gillies Fighters!
https://www.angelfire.com/il/gilliesfighter/index.html
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From: dbollman@mail.techplus.com (Dawn )
To: Schubert@uic.edu
Subject: My post!!

Hi everyone! umm.. sorry for not posting the last couple of times, but I've been soooo busy with school and stuff. OK.. I think Israel's Son is an awesome song. It's great to listen to when you're angry at someone.. and I mean REALLY angry at someone since it talks about killing people and all. I'm not saying that I'm like a murderer or anything, but Israel's Son is just soo cool musically and lyrically. I just wanted to ask any Canadian people on this list if they like either Our Lady Peace, the Age Of Electric, or the Tea Party. If any canadian people like them, please email me and we can talk about how much they kick ass :)

SILVERADO- I feel your pain. the closest city to me is Winnipeg, too, and it really makes me mad how 'chair haven't went there yet. I figured they would do the Winnipeg Edgefest date.. oh well, Edgefest still kicked ass. Anyways, I just wanted to say how I feel the same way as you do.

I think that a theme song for Ben would definitely be A.D.I.D.A.S. by KoRn. (ya know.. all day I dream about sex). Sorry if that offended anyone, but I think it's true :)

later! ~*~*~*~*~
jasmin

To: Schubert@uic.edu
From: headchick27@juno.com (Time Bomb
Subject: Spawn & Daniel opinions

Hi guys =)*

Sorry, I haven't read my mail for awhile, so I'm catching up now! About Spawn - I think it's about being "trendy" or a "poser." The part where he says, "Too involved with the new transition..." I think is about trying to keep up with trends and what everyone else is doing. Then, the part about the "hypocritical vision" is about how people that follow trends love to call everyone else posers! I never thought of it being about drugs or anything, but maybe it's just because I despise labels and everyone here has one! ;)

And about the things that annoy you about silverchair - I loved what everyone wrote! Everyone laughs at Daniel now! It's not just Heidi and me! ;) I hate how he acts all deep in interviews now... and how he plays with his hair... and how he wears so much clothes! But that's just my opinions from interviews. Everyone I know that met him thought he was extremely nice! And in regards to what that person said about him swearing (sorry, I forget your name), I think it's cool that he's vulgar - It's part of his personality! ;)

Take care,
Christy - Punk Rawk Girly

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~*THE CLOSING*~
It's the end of another issue, and so next week we're going to talk about.. Tomorrow, about what it means to you, like we do every week. Please send in ideas for a new section, if you would like to be in charge of maybe writng a section every week, or bi weekly for this list that would be cool as well!
Just email me about whateer ideas you have okie? And the question of the week is if silverchair had been an all girl band do you think they still would have become so succesful? how do you think their carrer would be diferent?

Heid
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