1999: At the age of 12, Daniel Johns and school friends Ben Gillies and Chris Joeannaou formed a band originally called ‘The Innocent Criminals’ in Newcastle, NSW.
1994: A demo recording of their song Tomorrow won a competition run by SBS program Nomad and changed their name to Silverchair.
In the same year the group signed a three-album deal with Sony.
1995: Silverchair released their first album Frogstomp in 1995 after Tomorrow sat at the No.1 position on Australian singles chart for six weeks.
1997: The band released their second album Freak Show, which was nominated for the 1997 ARIA Music Award for Best Group.
1999: The third album, Neon Ballroom, was released.
2000: Johns recorded a five-track EP called I Can’t Believe It’s Not Rock with dance musician/producer Paul Mac, who called themselves The Dissociatives.
2002: The fourth studio album, Diorama, was released and won the ARIA Music Award for Best Group and Best Rock Album.
At the age of 12, Daniel Johns (centre) and school friends Ben Gillies (right) and Chris Joeannaou (left) formed a band originally called ‘The Innocent Criminals’ in Newcastle, NSW
2004: An album, The Dissociatives, was released by John and Mac’s duo of the same name.
2005: The side-project won Best Video at the 2004 ARIA Music Awards for Somewhere Down the Barrel.
2005: Johns and Silverchair reunited and announced production of a new album.
2007: Young Modern was released and was followed by the Across the Great Divide tour alongside Powderfinger.
2008: It was announced that Johns was working on another side project with Luke Steele but was never released.
2008: Johns was named as the producer of The Scare’s album.
2011: Silverchair announced the band was going into ‘indefinite hibernation’ because ‘the spark simply isn’t there between the three of us at the moment’.
2012: Johns collaborated with the Australian Chamber Orchestra to create the soundtrack Atlas for a Qantas Airlines commercial before the 2012 Olympics.
2012: Johns wrote and recorded music with pop duo The Veronicas for their third album.
2014: Johns co-wrote the song Impossible by Australian rapper 360 and sang on the song’s chorus.
2015: Johns debuted a song as a solo artist on 29 January 2015 on Triple J called Aerial Love.
2015: Aerial Love was a song on a four-track EP released on March 13, 2015 and the song peaked at No.21 on the Australian Singles Chart.
2015: On May 22, 2015, Johns released a 15-track debut album as a solo artist called Talk, which peaked at No.2 on the ARIA Albums Chart.
2016: Johns collaborated with Perth duo Slumberjack on their song Open Fire and featured in the music video.
2017: Johns worked with ZHU on the track Modern Conversation.
2018: Collaborated with What So Not in the album Not All The Beautiful Things.
2018: Teamed up with Luke Steele to form DREAMS and released the single No One Defeats Us, with an album of the same name released in September 2018.