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Removed for now: this should go on the page for Silverchair rather than Johns:

The band's career began when they signed to Sony Records in 1994, after their demo won the local heat of Triple J's "Unearthed" talent search. Their first album release was Frogstomp, in 1995.

Birth date

Although the most recent edit looks like a sneaky vandal, I double-checked it; and we have indeed had the wrong year .. ever since the first version of the article was created. (some google searches showed 1978, but these were wikipedia derivatives.) -- Chuq 03:55, 26 Jul 2004 (UTC)

Unearthed

Silverchair were not discovered by the Unearthed competition. This is a common fallacy. The competition they won was 'Pick Me', part of the Nomad program on SBS. The main prize in the competition was a professionally filmed video clip. Silverchair won, and the Tomorrow clip was the result.

did the artist write this self- serving bio himself?

this bio reads like it was written by the artists own record company. it isnt at all critical. says nothing bad about the artist except to mention his health struggles.

• Is there anything bad to say about him? I'm sure he has some negative traits (we all do) but I don't think I've heard or read a bad thing about him in the media

Apart from the fact that your comments are unsigned I have this observation, which applies to the majority of net users: you are too disinclined to look it up yourselves! You used to look to journalists like me to do the job for you but now you hope that you can find out everything relevant in one click. It still doesn't work that way and perhaps never will. Researching specific information is still a time-consuming, labour-intensive job. And I can say that - having checked (had to take a break from a far more sordid story) I haven't found anything negative about this man. There can be numerous reasons: not everything is indexed and searchable on the net, net searches favour most recent postings, or possibly there is nothing negative to report; note that (except for the last) these factors apply to any article you are looking for. Perhaps someone from wiki will take these comments and put them where more people can see them.Freiherrin (talk) 18:14, 5 February 2008 (UTC)

"Disease"

I was under the impression that Johns suffered from anorexia but found no mention of it in this article. There is a large paragraph that praises Johns for valiantly admitting to and fighting with "his disease" with no mention whatsoever of the condition. --M Lyon 03:17, 7 March 2007 (UTC)

Edit: I note that the anorexia-nervosa is mentioned briefly in the "trivia" section and would recommend that it instead be integrated into the body of the biography. --M Lyon 03:17, 7 March 2007 (UTC)

Anorexia almost killed me: Daniel Johns By Christine Sams, Entertainment Reporter, June 6, 2004

http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2004/06/05/1086377186083.htmlFreiherrin (talk) 06:26, 5 February 2008 (UTC)

Vegan or Vegetarian?

It says he use to be a vegan but isn't he still a vegan? --Migospia 07:48, 10 March 2007 (UTC)

He is not a vegan anymore he stated in the OFFICAL silverchair bio "a new tomorrow" that he now, on doctors orders, eats some animal based foods like Eggs.

recent gay rumours

Should this be added, I only just read about it.... i have no idea how to use wiki though. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 121.216.38.64 (talk) 04:37, 30 January 2008 (UTC)

Let's see: how is it relevant whether someone is gay or anything else? I could see it as news years ago, if someone either was allegedly gay, or had stepped out of the closet. But this is, after all, 2008, at least it was, last time I checked.Freiherrin (talk) 18:07, 5 February 2008 (UTC)