Johns has emerged from rehab and receiving an intensive correction order for drink-driving with a YouTube series picking up where his Who Is Daniel Johns? podcast left off last year.And that includes the big “reveal” – ahead of the first episode of Inside The Mind of Daniel Johns – that reunion rumours were about them playing on his record rather than getting the band back together.This was despite him constantly affirming during the podcast that not only would Silverchair never play again but he hadn’t maintained any contact with his former bandmates.“I asked them not out of necessity, I asked them because I wanted to make it clear that I don’t have an issue with them as people – I just didn’t want to play under the banner of Silverchair,” Johns said.“Once I’d established myself as an artist outside of Silverchair. I asked them to come again and then when they didn’t want to, I didn’t care. It was like, ‘I asked you, it’s cool, I’ll play the drums with spatulas’.”Gillies and Joannou have yet to weigh in on Johns’ claims – the drummer has been focused on his own music, releasing the single On The Stereo in May while Joannou is a restaurateur and bar owner.The three-part series will also discuss his rehab experience after he began abusing alcohol in the wake of making FutureNever.FutureNever went No. 1 several weeks after its release in April and surprisingly after he released limited edition cassette versions of the album and while he was in rehab and unable to promote the launch.“For probably the first time in my life, I’ve sacrificed the art for both my physical and mental health. I had a nervous breakdown, I really f*cked up — I’ve been processing pain and guilt,” he said.His next project is the launch of the Past, Present & FutureNever exhibition in Melbourne’s Rialto tower on Thursday, a showcase of memorabilia from the Johns’ vault.It includes the re-creation of the bedroom in his parents’ Newcastle home where he wrote the lion’s share of Silverchair’s hits.Reclaim Your Art, the first episode of the docuseries lands at 6pm on August 22 on YouTube.kathtips
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