LOS ANGELES, July 24 (UPI) -- The Australian rock trio Silverchair has returned to active duty after an unplanned five-year break.
The group, which emerged in 1994 with the hit single "Tomorrow," has just released its fifth album, "Young Modern." And frontman Daniel Johns says he wasn't particularly worried about whether or not the group would come back together.
"We never said we'd broken up," explains Johns, who was sidelined briefly by reactive arthritis after the release of 2001's "Diorama." "But we definitely got to a point where we all just said, 'Let's have some time off, and if we want to do (the band) again we'll do it, and if we don't we won't -- literally that kind of open-ended. We didn't have a plan or anything.
"So we all did our own thing for two or three years, and (Silverchair) came back together of its own accord."
Silverchair is touring North America -- including a stop at the Lollapalooza '07 festival in Chicago -- to support the album, which has already topped the charts in Australia.
