Silverchair Sweep Australian Awards
Music News of the World
By Alex Jackson
October 6, 1995

As forecasted in ATN weeks ago, teen grunge sensations silverchair scooped the pool at the Ninth Annual Australian Record Industry (ARIA) Awards held in Sydney this past Monday (Oct. 2) night. The Newcastle trio were nominated for eight awards and won five -- Best Australian Single, Best Australian Debut Single and Highest Selling Australian Single for Tomorrow; Best Australian New Talent and Best Australian Debut Album for frogstomp. The publicity shy teens chose not to accept any of their awards, instead sending to the podium Josh Shirley, the young son of frogstomp producer Kevin "Caveman" Shirley. silverchair did however placate fans by teaming up with You Am I lead singer Tim Rogers for the ARIA Awards closing number, a performance of the seminal Radio Birdman track New Race.