silas maitland fretless bass guitar (1993 touring band and recording sessions)

Silas was recruited for the No-Man live band in 1993, and played on the 'Flowermouth' album. (He also appears on the No-Man collections 'Flowermix' and 'Lost Songs - Volume One').

Following his stint with No-Man, Silas became a member of the short-lived Colorsonic 3 (also featuring James Huiban on drums, and Julian Burdock on guitar & vocals).

Silas' bass playing has been in demand for over 20 years. He is probably best known as a long-standing member of Geno Washington's band, but has also worked with Seal, Desmond Dekker, Mickey Moody (Whitesnake), Eska Mtungwazi, Melanie Blatt (All Saints), the Official Blues Brothers Band and The Whoopee Club.

Silas also teaches bass both privately and at the London Center of Contemporary Music, the Musicians Institute and Rockschool. He has written music for Paul Young and Lenny Kravitz , and engineered records by Dirty Dogs, Nick Holmes and Geno Washington.

He currently plays double bass with The Flash Monkey, a "burlesque bazaar" band who perform frequently at Madame Jojo's in Soho, London. The band's music is rooted in "rhythm & blues, jazz and trashy rock with forays into other styles including Gypsy, circus, lounge, striptease, mambo, show-tunes, crime-jazz, pop and hip-hop."

Flash Monkey describe their live shows as "an extraordinary pageant of the finest music and exquisite visual entertainment. The evening celebrates the beautiful, bizarre, fantastical, ridiculous and sublime."