Newcastle,
May 23, 1996
Billing
themselves as the "Camel Mothers," silverchair played
a 70-minute show for an appreciative crowd of 500 or so at
the University of Newcastle's student bar on Thursday 23-May.
The innocent criminals page correspondent at the show learned
that the band's new album is scheduled for release in September.
According
to Duane Dowse, Newcastle correspondent for the innocent criminals
pages, silverchair played the gig in their home town mainly
to gauge reaction to the songs they plan to include on the
new record.
The band
played only five songs from their debut album frogstomp. The
rest of the set featured new music which is expected to be
included on silverchair's forthcoming new album.
Sue Joannou,
mother of silverchair bassist Chris Joannou, told our correspondent
that the album would be released in September unless the band
was unhappy with it, in which case it would not come out until
February 1997.
There
was no publicity for the show outside of the university campus.
Duane said he would not have heard about the event except
for a post in the Faultline Mailing List by Chris (93CD@unh-law.newcastle.edu.au).
Chris predicted that the show would probably be "the
biggest mosh to hit our bar in a while." Duane said that
proved to be the case as the first 10 rows of the audience
moshed from start to finish.
The ticket
price for the over-18 show had been set at $14 Australian,
but at silverchair's request, the price for uni students was
dropped to $7.
The Melbourne-based
band Blister opened the show before silverchair hit the stage
at approximately 10:30 p.m.
Singer/guitarist
Daniel Johns introduced Tomorrow as "the hit song off
our sixth album."
Sue Joannou
confirmed that the band members are continuing to enjoy themselves
and still don't take themselves seriously.
"That's
just the way they are," she said. The band is still "just
a hobby" for them, she said, and they continue to be
amazed by their success. |
