Former Silverchair frontman Daniel Johns has shared his “final post for 2023”, revealing he’s shutting off his social media to focus on work projects and “smelling the roses”.
The Newcastle-born singer, 44, told fans in a lengthy Instagram post he’s “notoriously bad at stopping” to appreciate life’s moments.
With two months left in the year, Johns said he’d be putting his phone “in a drawer” to finish working on the orchestration for his upcoming short film, What If The Future Never Happened?, which accompanies his 2022 solo album, FutureNever.
“I’m notoriously bad at stopping and smelling the roses so I’m putting this [post] here to remind myself,” Johns began.
“This will be my final post for 2023 so I can go away to work on finishing orchestration and credit sequence for ‘What If The Future Never Happened?’. I’m shutting my socials down, putting my phone in a drawer and getting back to work.
“FutureNever was the most gratifying creative experience of my career, it was gratifying because of YOU all. I’ve never felt more connected to the people who have supported the podcast, the album and the exhibition.
“[The short film] is coming out in early 2024, I’m disappearing into the studio now to finalise the orchestration.”
Johns, who is fairly active on his Instagram account, went on to share “some pretty big personal news”, announcing he’d inked a deal with music company BMG, which will include the entire Silverchair catalogue, which Johns wrote while he was in the legendary Aussie band.
He said it was “the most important songwriting deal of my career”.
The contract means BMG now fully represents Johns after striking up an alliance in 2021, in which the company released FutureNever, produced his Spotify podcast Who Is Daniel Johns?, and developed a Melbourne exhibition in Johns’ honour, ‘Past, Present and FutureNever’. Johns’ past catalogue will revert into the deal come 2025.
It comes after Johns’ fractured relationship with his former Silverchair bandmates Chris Joannou and Ben Gillies hit headlines again in late September with the release of their memoir Love & Pain, which was written without Johns’ involvement.
As part of the book’s release, Joannou and Gillies conducted a two-part interview with ABC’s Australian Story to talk about the highs of lows of Silverchair’s career.
However, the first episode of the doco was mysteriously removed from ABC iView shortly after it aired due to “rights issues”, with Johns later hitting out at the network as he revealed why he didn’t approve of the use of his music.
“I would have preferred to say nothing but here are the facts,” Johns began in a lengthy post.
“Australian Story reached out to me via my team ‘as a courtesy’ on August 11 to let me know that they were doing a story on [Gillies] and [Joannou].
“I was and remain incredibly supportive of them telling their story.
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“I was asked at the end of filming to be interviewed about their contribution to the band and although I wished them all the best, I respectfully declined for one reason. I haven’t been involved in the book nor am I aware of the contents. I’ve been asked on many occasions to read the book but haven’t been sent a copy, consequently I was uncomfortable being interviewed to help promote it.
“I was later asked by [ABC] via Silverchair’s label [Sony Music Australia] to clear 7 songs for iView (most of which were composed solely by me) to soundtrack a 2 episode series.
“I said to Sony and ABC that I would be open to approving all songs provided I received a copy of the book to ensure I wasn’t having my songs used to promote something I had no visibility on. I was told again that Ben & Chris would not give me a copy to read. That’s why the iView use was denied.”
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