Silverchair frontman Daniel Johns reveals he is deleting all his social media accounts and focusing on his music: 'This will be my final post'

Silverchair frontman Daniel Johns has announced he will beryllium deleting his societal media accounts to attraction connected his euphony career.

The 44-year-old shared a station to Instagram connected Tuesday, telling his fans he'll beryllium shutting down his page to attraction connected his semi-autobiographical characteristic What If The Future Never Happened?' 

'I'm notoriously bad astatine stopping and smelling nan roses truthful I'm putting this present to punctual myself,' he said.

'This will beryllium my last station for 2023 truthful I tin spell distant to activity connected finishing orchestration and in installments series for What If The Future Never Happened?'

'I'm shutting my socials down, putting my telephone successful a drawer and getting backmost to work.'

He went connected to opportunity that his 2022 album FutureNever was nan 'most gratifying imaginative acquisition of my career' and he's ne'er 'felt much connected to fans'.

'What If The Future Never Happened? is coming successful early 2024. I'm disappearing into nan workplace now to finalise nan orchestration,' Johns continued.

'In beautiful large individual news, I've conscionable signed nan astir important songwriting woody of my profession pinch BMG, including each of my songs from 'Frogstomp' to 'FutureNever' and everything successful between.'

Johns besides revealed he was presented pinch a immense plaque to people FutureNever being announced arsenic ARIA's highest trading caller Australian Album of 2022.

'I don't really bent plaques successful my location but I'm hanging this 1 successful my surviving room because it's a reminder of nan emotion from you each and it intends much than you'll ever know. It besides lights up,' he wrote.

He ended nan post: I'm loving being a genuinely independent creator making everything connected my ain terms. Love you, I'll find you successful nan NeverAfter.'

Johns' announcement comes aft his former Silverchair bandmates Ben Gillies and Chris Joannou revealed precisely really nan iconic stone set ended.

Writing astir Silverchair's demise successful their newly-released associated memoir, nan brace claimed that frontman Daniel put them connected an 'emotional rollercoaster' by breaking up nan set aggregate times - only to past alteration his mind. 

However, things yet came to an extremity past nan trio performed astatine nan Groovin' The Moo euphony show successful 2010.

Gillies said that he received a 'confusing call' from Johns soon aft nan performance, saying nan 2 words, 'It's inevitable'.

While Johns ne'er explicitly said that nan set was breaking up, Gillies and Joannou were later informed by their head that it was complete and that a property merchandise announcing their 'indefinite hiatus' would beryllium going retired to nan media.

'We wanted to scream. It shouldn’t person ended for illustration that,' nan brace constitute successful their memoir, according to news.com.au.

'Even if nan 3 of america weren’t aligned connected nan measurement to spell guardant together, we deserved to spell retired successful a measurement that celebrated our achievements arsenic a band,' they continued.

'If it was really over, we deserved much than a property merchandise that near everything floating successful nan ether, moreover if that was nan agreed approach. At nan very least, we owed it to ourselves to person a face-to-face big speech and make nan determination together.'