Silverchair On Tour With The Mac

Sydney, AU (EMI MUSIC AUSTRALIA) - Silverchair returned to the rehearsal studio last week to make final preparations for three big outdoor shows over coming months.

The band has announced that Paul Mac will join them as special guest keyboardist on these shows to temporarily fill the shoes of regular sideman Julian Hamilton who is currently touring Europe with his group, The Presets.

Mr Mac has been busy of late touring and promoting his new solo album "Panic Room". He has worked with Silverchair in the studio on their last two albums and did one song with them once at the ARIA's but this is the first time he will have played a full concert with the group.

Silverchair will perform at the following events:

March
Sun 19 - Rock-It Arenas, Joondalup WA
Fri 24 - Clipsal 500, Adelaide SA

April
Fri 14 - The Great Escape Festival At Newington Armory
Tickets are on sale for now for each of these shows.

Upon completion of this mini-tour they will enter the recording studio to begin work on the long awaited follow up to their hugely acclaimed album "Diorama" which was the fastest seller of their career in Australia.
The group has been working on new songs for several months now and is expected to roadtest a few of them for the first time at these upcoming shows.
Release plans remain tentative for their new disc but the band is hopeful of having it in stores at the very end of this year or the start of 2007