# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/ben-gillies
# Generated: 2026-08-14T03:56:22.165Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/ben-gillies"
name: "Ben Gillies"
slug: "ben-gillies"
description: "Benjamin David 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 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. In 2012, he formed Bento, in which he performs lead vocals, and released the band's debut album Diamond Days."
tagline: "Australian musician"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Ben_Gillies.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
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  isoCode: "AU"
category:
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profileType:
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birthDate: "1979-10-24"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
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ranks:
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  country:  null
  category: null
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump