Ben Gillies

Ben Gillies

Benjamin David Gillies (born 24 October 1979) is an Australian musician, best known as the drummer of Australian rock band Silverchair from 1992 to 2011. In 2003, Gillies formed Tambalane with Wes Carr, initially as a song-writing project, they released a self titled album in 2005 and toured Australia but subsequently folded. By June 2011, after Silverchair's disbandment, Gillies was in the final stages of about 12 months of working on his solo album and he said that it was not a continuation of his earlier work with Tambalane.