Tomorrow (Nomad Demo Version)
(recorded in an old abandoned warehouse)


This was the other half of their prize, the video shoot. It was originally set 
to air only once, just like the new studio-recorded version of "Tomorrow" was set 
to air only once. The band's young age is quite obvious, their hair is not even 
neck-level yet. Chris struts around shirtless, Ben bangs his drums, and Daniel 
stands around making Vedder-like hand gestures.


Tomorrow (US version)
Directed by Mark Pellington.
Recorded at the Raymond Terrace BHP quarries (5/27-28/95).


The band chose the same director as Pearl Jam's "Jeremy", so the
directing style is quite similar. Spotlight time is shared between Daniel
and a pig-faced man. Between segments of Daniel singing the verses, a
story line develops of a pig-faced man hoarding gold coins.


Pure Massacre (original live version)
Recorded live at the Phoenician Club, Sydney (12/17/94).

 
"We filmed a few [gigs] for the video but they weren't quite right. So we 
said, 'We'll film one more and if it's no good we'll do something else.' 
That was the most intense gig we've ever done. There were two balconies, 
people were jumping off them and the PA. There was one guy we know, John, 
and he said he was going to jump off everywhere and he ended up slashing his 
leg. He was jumping off the balcony and landed on something sharp. He came 
backstage after the gig and went 'Look what I done!'"


Pure Massacre (US version)
Directed by Peter Christopherson.
Recorded 10/13/95.

 
No story line here, just your basic old-school music video... the band is playing 
in a rock quarry and by the end of the video, a small audience has assembled. The 
highlight to the video is all the chromatic filters used on the film.


Israel's Son (US original)
Directed by Nigel Dick. 


A man is running full-speed through a dead forest, falling all over the 
place. Another man has built a gallows and is setting up the ropes. He 
pulls a boxer puppy out of a canvas bag and puts him into a cage. Looking 
at the dog, the man sits down and begins to tie a noose. Shots of the band 
singing in some building alternate between the storyline shots. Finally, 
the guy makes it to the gallows, but the cage is open and empty. He looks 
up into the sky and screams, but then sees his dog in the distance tied to 
a tree, still alive. ("You're late for the execution/ If you're not here 
soon I'll kill your friend instead")



Israel's Son (US censored)
Directed by Nigel Dick.

 
The original version had been in rotation for some time. But after the 
"israel's son murders", Sony-Epic decided that they didn't like the 
liability of the original version. So all of the story line video was 
dropped to create a new "censored" version that replaced the original 
only in the US. Only the feed from the band playing in the building was 
used to create the new version. No gallows, no noose, no dog in a cage. 
The band was really pissed off about this cause they were quite proud 
with the way the original version turned out.


Findaway
Recorded live by MTV at Madison Square Gardens, New York (2/09/96). 


It's just a live preformance.


Shade
Recorded at NSN Studios, Newcastle (5/24/95).
(released only in Australia)

 
No real story line other than flashes of plastic models of a family and their 
house/neighborhood. The band is singing in a warehouse in between the flashes 
of the plastic family and other random imgaes. Near the end of the video, the 
house burns down.


Abuse Me
Directed by Nick Eghan.

 
The setting is a freak show. On one stage, a man spins in a virtual reality wheel. 
Another stage features "Snaz" (the tattoo man) putting final details on his completely 
tattooed body. The band is also performing on a stage as just another set of freaks 
to watch. Everything on their stage is silver, including the instruments.


Freak
Directed by Jerry Cassali (former Devo keyboardist).

 
The band is playing in an oven-chamber, monitored by a scientist in a control room. 
Their sweat is collected and fed to an old woman in an adjoining room. The sweat begins 
to make her look younger, so more sweat is collected and pumped into her. When her 
youth returns, she's still not satisfied so she takes another dose and turns into a 
freak. However, she loves the new look and pays the nurse. The band punches out their 
time cards and walk out.
 

Cemetery


Opens with a moon in a black sky. The guys are playing in an un-finished building, made 
to look like a graveyard type thing. There's a small group of people playing stringed 
instruments in one room, while Daniel, Chris and Ben are in another room playing their 
instruments. In another room there's a pimp with two prostitutes, and scenes like this 
continue to go by. At the end you see a moon in the black sky.


The Door
(recorded in Sydney at Luna Park, live at a Suicide Prevention concert)


silverchair just play, scenes of the crowd fly by and a big bridge is behind them.


Slave

It's a live preformance from Buenos Aires.

Anthem for the Year 2000
Directed by Gavin Bowden 


Ok, so the video starts off with a big sky scraper with this huge banner on it that says 
"Join us in the Year 2000". Then it shows the band in what is actually an old abandoned 
train station, and it continues through the whole video to show clips of them in this 
warehouse type thing. So for the parts of the video that aren't of the band you basically 
see a robot being controlled by a man to look like a polititian speaking over the TV to a 
country of people who think it's real, and a bunch of pissed off teenagers holding up 
signs with the polititian's head on it covered in red spray paint and the word "fascist" 
all over it. Then a riot gets started by "the youth" and they end up breaking onto the 
set of the fake polititian's set and the broadcast gets cut off so the rest of the country 
can't see what's happening. Then you see a TV with the polititian's face that says 
"you are a product of you television." This video was filmed in Sydney and the youth are 
teenagers from all over Australia who volunteered to take part in the making of the video.

Ana's Song (Open Fire)
Directed by Cate Anderson


Daniel is in an institution of some kind looking really withdrawn being pushed around 
in a wheelchair. At the same time a girl is trying to clean herself of something by 
washing her hands in a sink, she scrubs so hard that she draws blood. Ben and 
Chris are playing by themselves in a room, Daniel is wheeled to the room by another, 
more confident version of himself, who walks towards the band to join them and starts 
singing. Daniel in the wheelchair watches, longing to be like the other version of 
himself. The girl walks to the ocean, and is slowly sinking into the sand, the hands 
of Daniel save her and she awakes from her dream.

Miss You Love
Directed by Cate Anderson


coming soon.