“DANIEL JOHNS MAKES APRA AWARDS HISTORY
Daniel Johns made history at the 2008 APRA Awards held in Sydney last night when he won the prestigious APRA “Songwriter of the Year” award.
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This latest achievement makes the Silverchair frontman the first songwriter in the 26 year history of the APRA Awards to receive this honour on three separate occasions (he also won in 1995 with bandmate Ben Gillies and then in 2003 for his work on “Diorama”).
In addition to winning “Songwriter of the Year” Daniel’s composition “Straight Lines” (which he co-wrote with The Presets’ Julian Hamilton) was named the APRA “Song of the Year” and the “Most Played Australian Work”.
“It’s a serious honor to be recognized by your peers in the music community” Daniel Johns said “Writing songs means everything to me so to receive these awards for the art of songwriting feels particularly special.” “
And a picture…because he’s beautiful…
For those of you who don’t know yet…I got another tattoo! This one is the dancers from Silverchair’s album cover for Neon Ballroom. Some of you may be rolling your eyes, but I am so happy with it.
If you are paying attention you can see that the dancers are flip flopped. When the tattoo artist was putting the stencil on my hip, we noticed the other way did not flow as well on my body. The thing that I hate about some peoples tattoos is if they float, it needs to go with your body - taking into account size, position and location.
For me, tattoos should be meaningful and sort of like a time line. It can be a piece of art, a reminder, an expression of love or just something beautiful - but it is absolutely entirely personal. So yes, maybe when I’m 45 Silverchair won’t be my favorite band but I know that for almost 12 years of my life so far I’ve looooved them! Neon Ballroom is my favorite album, I am the most emotionally attached to it - it got me through some tough times (lame, I know). And the tattoo itself, you wouldn’t know its a “silverchair tattoo” if I didn’t tell you.
As for the experience - I love it! Getting my tattoos has been the bravest things I’ve done, and I’ll always have them. My second one took close to an hour, after about 20-30 minutes I hit a euphoric high. I was conscious of my breathing and every line she was making. To calm myself down the whole time I was singing The Beatles “Blackbird”. I had feelings of excitement, nervousness, fear - but never regret or a second thought.
FINALLY! My first post! I’ve only had this page since like October. I have totally been technoslacking (credit: Mindy).
Recently, Eric (my brother in law) informed me of a friend [Bill Palmer] he knows who would be interviewing Silverchair and needed help with some questions and background info. So who better to answer those questions than I! Through a series of emails back and forth - I gave him several questions and whatever I could tell him about the boys. (Disclaimer: I just recently met the drummer Ben Gillies, for a total of about 10 minutes, so I don’t actually know Silverchair - I’ve just loved them for close to 11 years.)
photo credit: Bill Palmer
Bill Palmer just published the first issue of his online magazine iProng Magazine : A publication for iPod and iPhone users. Silverchair graces the December issue - it can be downloaded for free here. The interview starts on page 47, my name is at the end. Besides just the Silverchair interview, there is a lot more to read and scan through so give it a look! Bill gave me the more professional title of “research assistant” not just “a girl who is a huge fan and knows an uncanny amount about them”.
So I want to thank Bill for this opportunity and I’m glad my… what some would call an obsession …came to good use!
