Benjamin David "Ben" Gillies is an Australian musician, best known as the drummer of Australian rock band Silverchair from 1992 until its breakup in 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. 

October 24th, 1979 in Newcastle (Age 44)