The latest news out of Rock in Rio is a television special of the festival highlights is being packaged by the organisers of the event. When completed they plan to place this special on television networks around the world. Anticipated airing dates are not known at this stage however as soon as we hear anything we will let you know.

In the biggest and most memorable performance of their career so far, silverchair played to 250,000 people in Rio de Janeiro on Sunday night.

According to that city's #1 newspaper, "O Globo", silverchair's set was "the surprise highlight of the day". In a review headlined "Young Punks From Australia Steal The Show" the band's dynamic performance and the extraordinary crowd response was hailed as "a rock & roll tour de force".

silverchair's drummer, Ben Gillies, said "Rock In Rio was undoubtedly the most amazing experience we've ever had as a band. The crowd was incredible - I've never seen anything like it".

The event attracted more than 1.1 million people over seven nights making it easily the biggest rock festival in history. Different nights featured bills such as R.E.M/Foo Fighters, Guns N' Roses/Oasis, and N'Sync/Britney Spears, but only the Red Hot Chili Peppers/silverchair closing night was completely sold out, filling the purpose built "City Of Rock" complex to maximum capacity.

silverchair's set featured songs from each of their albums with a leaning toward tracks from 1999's "Neon Ballroom" which has sold 150,000 copies in Brazil. The Newcastle trio also performed two new songs - "Hollywood" and "One Way Mule" - which had been previewed for Australian fans during the group's performance at the Falls Festival on New Years Eve.

The band is currently on their way back home where they will resume writing and rehearsing material for a new album which they will record later this year.