Ben Gillies

Benjamin David Ben Gillies is an Australian musician, best known as the drummer of Australian rock band Silverchair from 1992 until the band went on hiatus in 2011. In 2003, Gillies formed Tambalane with Wes Carr, initially as a songwriting project, they released a selftitled album in 2005 and toured Australia but subsequently folded. By June 2011, after Silverchairs disbandment, Gillies was in the final stages of about 12160months of working on his solo album and he said that it was not a continuation of his earlier work with Tambalane. In 2012, he formed Bento, in which he performs lead vocals, and released the bands debut album Diamond Days.

Benjamin David Gillies was born onOctober 1979 in Merewether, a suburb of Newcastle NSW. He started as a quad drummer in the band, The Marching Koalas, before forming the grunge group, Innocent Criminals, at the age ofwith friends Daniel Johns and Chris Joannou. Playing originally at school and other venues in the Newcastle area, they came to attention after a weekend music workshop at the Tanilba Bay Progress Hall funded through the Arts Council of New South Wales in March 1994. By October 1994, under their new name Silverchair, their first EP Tomorrow had reached No.1601 on the ARIA Singles Chart. Silverchair went on to release five No.1601 albums, Frogstomp , Freak Show , Neon Ballroom , Diorama and Young Modern .

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