News about Ben Gillies

They were once Australia's biggest band. Kate Ritchie, a former home and Away actress, has admitted that she was a huge fan of Silverchair in the 90s. The 49-year-old said she even went so far as requesting out members of the band to accompany both herself and her co-star Isla Fisher to the Logies.

It's the legendary feud that broke millions of music enthusiasts' hearts. Now Silverchair's Ben Gillies and Chris Joannou have confirmed that it was drugs, including alcohol, that caused the breakup of the band and its friendship with frontman Daniel Johns. The trio of school pals formed the club as teenagers and saw a meteoric rise to fame in the 1990s before separating in 2011.

On Monday morning, Chris Joannou and Ben Gillies finally spoke out about their friendship with former Silverchair frontman Daniel Johns. After refusing to allow them to use their songs in their ABC documentary about the band, the bassist and drummer opened up about their deceased bandmate, 44. The musicians 'drifted apart' from Daniel, according to WSFM's The Jonesy and Amanda Show since Silverchair disbanded in 2011.

Daniel Johns, the frontman for the Silverchair, has broken silence over ABC's decision to cancel A Silver Lining's Australian Story documentary A Silver Lining last week. The two-part story tells the tale of Silverchair's meteoric rise to fame, as well as an interview with drummer Ben Gillies and bassist Chris Joannou. Johns, who has been barred from Gilles and Joannou since the band split in 2011, did not appear in the film.

Silverchair's Chris Joannou has admitted that they were on a'slippery slope' at the time of their fame due to heavy drinking. During his 2007 tour, the 43-year-old bassist and his bandmates, drummer Ben Gillies, and singer Daniel Johns were heavily consuming alcoholic beverages. We didn't - or couldn't - see it at the time, but things were falling apart' he writes in his forthcoming book Love & Pain, which was published by Stellar Magazine this weekend.

In a recent ABC documentary, former Silverchair drummer Ben Gillies talked about bandmate Daniel Johns' fight with anorexia. Following Johns' well-publicized health problems, the rockers, who were childhood friends, were disconceived since the band split in 2011. Silverchair debuts in Newcastle, New South Australia, in 1992 and goes on to sell ten million copies worldwide.

When recording their fourth studio album in 2001, Silverchair bandmates Ben Gillies and Chris Joannou opened up on Monday about their mental health struggles. Ben Gillies, 43, of Drumming, confessed to self-medicating with opioids while recording their Diorama album. I was having mental problems when we first started to record it.' The commotion of another Silverchair record breaking right knocked me over the edge,' he said.

Without mentioning lead singer Daniel Johns, early demos of the book Love & Pain have been posted on social media, with teasers revealing that the tale will be told solely from Gillies and Joannau's perspective. The bombshell news follows a series of disparaging remarks made by lead singer Daniel Johns about his former bandmates last year in the 'Who Is Daniel Johns?' Inside The Mind Of Daniel Johns - A podcast and YouTube series.

Chris Joannou has disinherited his family from their Newcastle flat and made a tidy sum in the process. For a whopping $1.65 million, the retired Silverchair bass player and his partner, Karissa, have sold their family's home. According to reports, the 42-year-old is headed to Coffs Harbour to be closer to his wife's family.

If Silverchair fans had any idea that the legendary Newcastle rock band would be resurgent, they would be left in despair by Daniel Johns' ferocious TV performance. The troubled frontman revealed the extent of his deteriorating friendship with Chris Joannou and Ben Gillies, who together, took the world by storm with their debut album Frogstomp.

On Thursday, Daniel Johns revealed he had a nervous breakdown and he was worried he'd be killed while recording his new album. The Tomorrow hitmaker, 43, talked about how his experience and personal struggles have influenced his music. 'I thought maybe I was going to die,' he told The Sydney Morning Herald. I wasn't well behaved. Towards the end of making this record, I was in the middle of a nervous breakdown.'

In Kanye West, Daniel Johns has found an ally. In his docuseries, the 43-year-old rock star made important comments about mental disorders. When asked by Inside the Mind of Daniel Johns host Megan Holiday what he thinks about Kanye's music as a power.

Daniel Johns has argued that his former SIlverchair colleagues are 'filled with regret, jealousy, and rage over his achievement,' and that drummer Ben Gillies has a'real issue' with his fame. In a wide-ranging interview in which the rock star, 43, spoke to The Project's Carrie Bickmore on Wednesday for the first time since his arrest for high-speed drink driving. Despite his ex bandmates Ben and Chris Joannou's request that his new album FutureNever be released, he claimed that Silverchair will'never get back together.'

During a live interview on The Project on Wednesday, Daniel Johns walked away before revealing his struggles with mental stability and the alcohol-fueled car accident that would eventually send him to rehab. The rock star, 43, recalled that he'thought he was going to die' in the car crash that resulted in his plead guilty to high-speed drink driving charges in March. Following his time in rehab, he has also stated that he would have'killed himself' if he'd injured anyone in the accident.

Daniel Johns, a former Silverchair frontman, has shared more information about a notorious triple murder in America that was allegedly inspired by his music. A 16-year-old boy from Washington, D.C., and his associate murdered his parents and brother in a murder that stunned the capital in 1995. The teenagers were reportedly playing the song Israel's Son from Silverchair's debut album Frogstomp, which features the following lines: "I want you to know that I want you to die."

Daniel Johns is back and better than ever. In a new video posted on Monday, the former Silverchair frontman looked tanned and good following his stint in rehab. The singer, Daniel Johns, 43, is depicted in the clip from his part-docuseries Inside the Mind of Daniel Johns, a portrait of fitness and sobriety.

Daniel Johns, a frontman for Silverchair, has claimed that his ex band members were reluctant to appear on his new record. Daniel Johns, the singer and guitarist, 43, revealed he asked Ben Gillies and Chris Joannou to appear on his latest chart-topping solo album FutureNever in a preview. I asked them not out of necessity, but I wanted to make it clear that I don't have a problem with them as individuals,' Johns said.