With Kurt Cobain dead and Brit pop swaggering on the horizon, Australian
alternative rockers Silverchair made one final stand for the grunge movement in
the mid-1990s with their youthful, thrashing, anthems of angst. Formed in 1992
by schoolfriends Ben Gillies, Chris Joannou and Daniel Johns in Newcastle, New
South Wales, the band won a high profile national competition for unsigned
artists and soon had a host of labels bidding for their signatures. Recorded in
nine days when the trio were still only 15, debut album Frogstamp (1995) was a
raw blast of adolescent energy, that topp...