Daniel Johns Announces 'In Conversation: What If The Future Never Happened?' Australian Tour

One of Australia’s greatest rock stars, Daniel Johns, is doing something a bit different with his forthcoming Australian tour.

Today, the Silverchair vocalist has announced his In Conversation: What If The Future Never Happened? Tour, where fans are invited to experience four nights of storytelling, film and music.

Johns will be hitting stages along the East Coast in celebration of his forthcoming short film, What If The Future Never Happened?, and will unveil the worldwide premiere at these special shows.

Each screening of the highly anticipated featurette will be accompanied by an hour-long on-stage conversation with Johns. He’s set to discuss his early life and creative process, share never-before-seen photos, archival footage, and unreleased recordings, including unheard demos from Neon Ballroom, Young Modern, and other ideas that never made it to a sixth Silverchair album.

Fans will also get to experience new music from Johns’ solo career and collaborative projects, with each evening differing from the other. To mark his first on-stage appearance in five years, Johns will get up close and personal with fans, who will be invited to submit questions before the events take place.

What If The Future Never Happened? was directed by James Medlam and is described as a “genre-bending, semi-autobiographical featurette that puts reality and fantasy in a hyper-speed spin cycle.” Filmed in 2022, Johns made the call to hold it back while completing the project and celebrated the 30th anniversary of Frogstomp.

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The tour begins at Sydney’s State Theatre on Saturday, 1 November. It continues at the Newcastle Civic Theatre on Friday, 7 November, Brisbane’s Fortitude Music Hall on Sunday, 9 November, and concludes at Melbourne’s Palais Theatre on Thursday, 13 November.

Pre-sale tickets will be available at 11 am local time on Wednesday, 24 September – register here to access the pre-sale – ahead of the general sale on Thursday, 25 September, at 1 pm local time via the Frontier Touring website.

On Instagram, Johns said of the tour:

Child fame is a funny thing. There’s a fleeting moment, an ‘in between’ where you know everything is about to change. It’s scary, it’s exciting, it’s irreversible.
Before frogstomp and before silverchair became popular there was a 14-year-old boy in Newcastle writing riffs and songs.
‘What If The Future Never Happened?’ is a story told through the anamorphic lens of the human memory. A lens that is distorted, surreal and honest at them same time.
A biopsy rather than a biopic.
After some time away from the spotlight, I’m nervous and excited about premiering the Featurette in some of Australia’s most iconic theatres, I’ll also join you in person to talk music and open up my demo vault to play music I’ve written over the last 3 decades. It will be chaotic, spontaneous and hopefully fun.

Presented by Frontier Touring