Ben: "No, Led Zeppelin would be your biggest influence, Daniel"
Daniel: "No, trust me, they're second!"
Ben: "No, they're not!"
Daniel: "Shut up!"
~*~
Ben: I’ll describe Daniel: Fat, ugly trendsetter!
Daniel: I’ll describe Ben: Cool, funny, witty, muscular!
Ben: Shut up!
Daniel: What!?!
Ben: I don’t like you!
Daniel: And silky!
Ben: No, I don’t like you!
Daniel: (Describing Chris) Cool, tough, dumb, brilliant, good-looking, handsome
Ben: Goateed-like
Daniel: Goateed-like! He’s the most manly!
Ben: See, when Chris turns 40 he's going to have to shave like twice a day, and me
and Daniel, on the other hand, hopefully will have to shave only twice a week. Give me a
kiss! (Jokingly to Chris)
~*~
Interviewer: Out of Daniel and Ben, who gets the girls?
Daniel: "BENNNNN!"
Chris: "Ben is the chick puller for sure!"
Ben: "Shut up, give me a break!"
Daniel: "Ben is the Keith Moon of silverchair, the wild man!"
Ben: "Oh, shut up!"
Daniel: "It's a compliment!"
Ben: "You're making me look bad!"
Daniel: "Gillies is an animal, and that's a good thing!"
Ben: "Okay! Okay!"
~*~
Silverchair: *laughs*
Daniel: "Is it me?”
Ben: "Yeah."
Daniel: "Um, silverchair here on ‘Alternative Nation’....I've already read this!"
Ben: "Ohh, you are so dumb!"
Silverchair: *laughs*
Daniel: "k, take 2!"
~*~
Interveiwer: "In two years time where do you reckon silverchair will be? Can you
give us some sort of indication now?"
Chris: "Country Rock, I reckon."
Daniel: "Country and Western!"
~*~
Ben: "I live in an Eskimo"
Daniel: "You live in an igloo, you are an Eskimo. You don't live in an Eskimo, Stupid!"
~*~
Ben: "We don't care how old people are really, they could be 3 to 86 and we just don't
care"
Daniel: "What if they were 87?"
Ben: "Oh....arr....shut-up!"
~*~
Interviewer: Have you gotten any sort of indication back from the American
record company what they're expecting this time around?
Daniel: "They said they're expecting round 52 million, didn't they?"
Ben: "Yeah, I think so."
Daniel "That's just in Australia. Everyone's gonna buy three!"
~*~
Daniel: Jock? What's that mean?
Ben: That means that you're a sporto-like, tough guy-like, you wear those big things
that make your balls and your dick look really big.
Daniel: I don't have to wear one of them!
~*~
Interviewer: "We are here with silverchair and talking about their new album
'Neon Ballroom' which is a follow up to their first 2 albums 'Freak Show' and 'Frogstomp'. 'Frogstomp' was made at the dawn of time when you guys
were still in elementary school."
Daniel:"Yep!"
Ben:"I don't think we call it elementary school, I think we call it just normal
high school."
Interviewer: "No, no, the school before high school"
Chris:" Oh, primary school!"
Interviewer: "Yeah, primary school! You wrote your first song on a speak and spell?"
Ben: "Speak and spell?"
Interviewer: "Yeah, it's an american machine". (*Comment from me: I never heard of one...lol*)
Daniel:" Let's stop with the americanisms, okay?"
Interviewer: "What kind of Americanisms do you hate? Or what ones do you like?"
Daniel: "Yeah, it's not that we don't like them, we just don't know what you are talking about."
Ben and Chris: "Yeah"
Daniel:" Stop confusing us!"
Ben: "One time people were talking to us about floaties...what are they called?"
Chris: "Floatie wings."
Daniel: "Water wings."
All: "WATER WINGS!"
Interviewer: "Yeah,I don't think most Americans know what water wings are, especially in the middle of the country." (*I do, this time!*)
Interviewer:" Now to our next caller?"
Daniel: "Sounds like a tampon to me."
Interviewer: "Water wings.."
All: "*LAUGHS*"
Daniel: "Okay, I'm ready!"
~*~
Ben: "Daniel is actually an idiot"
Daniel: "SHUT UP STUPID"
Ben: "Ahhh! Sorry Mr. Intellectual"
~*~
Daniel: I don't think I want to do another interview with Ben.
Ben: Why?
Daniel: I just don't like it. I feel intimidated.
Ben: Why?
Daniel: Cuz you're just too big!
~*~
Daniel: We like talking about famous zoos of the world. Dubbo Zoo, in australia, has
some fascinating life forms. Has a few panda bears, which are rare specimen. Actually,
Ben looks likea panda bear, I’ve come to the conclusion!
Ben: Do panda bears have mohawks?
Daniel: Yeah, some do! And I look like a rat!
~*~
Daniel: We dont believe in girls. We think they're an invalid commodity.
Ben: We never get girls
Daniel: We find it hard.
Ben: Girls, they dont want to talk to us for some reason
Daniel: They say we look too much like animals. Girls say Ben looks like a panda
and I look like a rat, and Chris looks like a puppy. So, sometimes we get a girl or two. As
far as girls are concerned, we've got too many animal features to be able to.
~*~
(Silverchair’s official fan club is called the “Llama Appreciation Society”)
Ben: Do you like llamas, Daniel?
Daniel: I like ‘em, yeah. They're top animals, mate.
Ben: Aw, I feel the same way
Daniel: Mmhm, I love them, mate. They're really nice animals
Ben: Do you support the liberation of llamas?
Daniel: I do! I support the liberation of llamas!
Ben: Same here. I feel-
Daniel: Can I ask you a serious question?
Ben: Ah, go ahead, go ahead.
Daniel: Like, a serious....question?
Ben: Very serious!
Daniel: (laughing) Do you pick your nose?
Ben: Sometimes...well I’m just going to come out in the open and say yes, I do.
Daniel: Thank you, and we'll go back to the radio interviewer!
~*~
Ben: Llamas are a wonderful animal.!
Daniel: Hmm, you know how we took over the dinosaurs? Llamas are gonna take
over us!
Ben: No, wait. Can I explain something, please?
Daniel: No, okay.
Ben: You know how like mokeys were really dumb? Like apes? Like they were all
hairy and they couldn’t talk. Then, you know how they turned into man? Well llamas,
right, um, they're like the caveman of today, right? And there's going to be another ice age
and all humans are going to die and then llamas are going to, like, turn intelligent and be
able to talk and like, be chefs and um, and like, carpenters.
~*~
Daniel: Do you know television corrupts your mind?
Ben: Yeah.
Daniel: You shouldn't watch it.
Ben: You watch bloody heaps of it!
Daniel: Oh, I do not! All I watch is “Neighbors”. “Neighbors” is not corrupting in any
way. It’s just...it’s a perfectly harmless show. It is really stupid!
Chris: None of them ever have to go to the toilet!
Daniel: Sure.
Chris: Well, they never do everyday things!
Daniel: “Neighbors” is the most everyday show!
Chris: It is not!
Daniel: It is! They go to school.
Chris: None of them ever have a shower!
Daniel: Yeah, thats not everyday for me. Chris' life is taken up by sh*tting and
showering. No, think about it. “Neighbors” is rad.
Chris: Yeah, might as well watch “Beverly Hills, 90210”
Daniel: Aw, no! That’s American crap! Thats just the American soap opera kind of
thing that...you go with “Neighbors” and you can’t go wrong!
Ben: “Party of Five”! “Party of Five” rules!
Daniel: “Neighbors!”
Ben: “Party of five, Party of five!”
Chris: “Party of Five”
Daniel: No, if you think about it, American soap operas are well and good for the first
few hundred and then you dong have your... “Neighbors” has been around, it's built up a
reputable! (*comment from me: Days of Our Lives had been on longer than Neighbors!
So ha! Days of Our Lives rules!)
Chris: It’s so mainstream!
Ben: Shut up! Shut up!
Daniel: No, it’s just a great show! People say it’s not, but it is. Would any Aussies
please tell me what this “Neighbors” thing is like? Please don’t say it’s the Australian
version of “90210!”
~*~
Ben: What were they called? The ones that...
Daniel: Yeah, those like Reese’s Pieces peanut butter crap. Or like that...
Interviewer: Reese’s Peanut Butter Cups, I’m sure.
Daniel: Yeah
All: *laughs*
Ben: We couldn’t find the right...
Daniel: We had to find the one’s like M&M’s. And we found ‘em in a little machine when we were actually mixing with Andy and we actually got the album produced by Nick Launay.
Ben: *laughs*
Daniel: Just thought I’d throw that in, you know?
Interviewer: Yeah, I’m sorry, yes. I probably messed that up, but hey!
~*~
Caller: Have you guys had any strange fan experiences while touring?
Ben: Umm...No. I don’t think so.
Daniel: Have we had any what? I’m sorry, I didn’t und..
Ben: Strange fan experiences, didn’t you say?
Interviewer: Yes.
Ben: Uh, Hmm...I can’t recall any.
Daniel: We had this guy one time, outside the bus, paint himself blue, and he actually had
white underpants on and no hair, and he was like yelling out “I love you, Ben! I love you,
Ben!” And that was..that was pretty weird. He was just this rad guy. I don’t know his
name or anything. That didn’t really...
Interviwer: Nothing else weird?
Ben and Daniel: That didn’t happen.
Daniel: That was just...thought we’d add to the question with something good.
All: *laughs*
~*~
Caller: You’re not into drugs, are you?
Silverchair: No, not...no, we’re not really the kind of people you could call drug addicts.
Um, but you know people that are willing to go and abuse their bodies like that, like I
mean, it’s their choice, it might not be right, but if they wanna do it, they can. You know,
it’s up to them. But we’re not, personally, we don’t do that kind of stuff.
Daniel: We smell flowers.
~*~
Caller: Where do you think you’ll be in the future? In the next five years or something?
Daniel: Uh...that all really depends. Could be still playing music in Silverchair, or we
could be...asleep.
All: *laughs*
Interviewer: Take one big long nap.
Daniel: Yeah.
~*~
Caller: Do you ever feel pressured or nervous when you’re on stage?
Chris: Um...Not really, no. Sometimes you might get a bit nervous if, um...like, um, about
last week we had to record a thing for MTV live, and it was kind of a bit nervous. You don’t wanna stuff-up in front of cameras, ‘cause you kinda feel a bit dumb. But most of
the time it’s pretty cool, and just sorta relax and...once you get doing like after a live
show tour and you’ve kinda done a few shows in a row, and kinda gettin’ regular, it’s
alright.
~*~
Caller: If you guys could have one good superpower and one evil superpower, what
would they be?
Interviewer: One good superpower and one evil superpower. Daniel, let’s start with you.
Daniel: Um...if I had one good superpower I wouldn’t use it. If I could have bad
superpower I’d kill everyone.
Ben: That’d be good..
Daniel: No, I mean not violently, I’d just make everyone die of maybe just a slow leaking
plague or something.
Silverchair: Why?
Daniel: *laughs* I dunno, just something to do.
Silverchair: But why?
Interviewer: What a cheerful thought!
Daniel: Just to (?piss you?) off! :)
Silverchair: Oh my God...
Interviewer: Ben?
Daniel: Chris? Ben?
Interviewer: Ben?
Ben: I’m sorry that’s just too deep a question for me. I can’t handle it.
Interviewer: C’mon Ben, one good superpower and one evil superpower. Which would it
be? What do you got?
Ben: Are talking like Captain Planet superpower?
Interviewer: Yeah, like maybe you’d want like x-ray vision so you could see through
girls’ clothing.
Silverchair: Oh, that’s Ben!
Ben: No, that’s Johnsy!
Daniel: *nervous laugh*
Ben: No, I’d be Earth, there we go. Like Captain Planet.
Interviewer: Chris, what about you? One good superpower and one bad superpower.
Chris: Good superpower? Uhm...Gee. Superpowers.
Ben: A superpowerful engine, that’s what you’d have.
Chris and Daniel: Yeah. *laughs*
Interviewer: And one bad superpower?
Daniel: I wouldn’t really kill everyone. I was just joking.
Interviewer: *laughs* Don’t try to go back now!
Daniel: Why would I kill everyone?
Ben: You’d kill me. Would you kill me, Daniel?
Daniel: I’d try! :)
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