The Silencers are a Scottish rock band formed in London in 1986 by Jimme O'Neill and Cha Burns, two ex-members of the post-punk outfit Fingerprintz.

Before forming The Silencers, vocalist Jimme O'Neill and guitarist Cha Burns were active in London's new wave music scene.

O'Neill wrote songs for Paul Young and Lene Lovich, while Burns played guitar in Adam Ant's backing band during 1982–1984, together with Fingerprintz drummer Bogdan Wiczling.

In 1979, they met and formed a post-punk/new wave project called Fingerprintz,[2][3] and released three albums under that name: The Very Dab, Distinguishing Marks and Beat Noir.

Then O'Neill formed a duo with electropop singer Jacqui Brookes and they released two singles in 1983: "Haunted Cocktails" and "Lost Without Your Love".

Soon O'Neill and Burns were playing music together again, this time joined by drummer Martin Hanlin and bass player Joseph Donnelly, a cousin of Simple Minds singer Jim Kerr.

The band moved back to Scotland and recorded a second album A Blues for Buddha at CaVa Studios in Glasgow, with Flood producing.

The single "Bulletproof Heart", a re-recording of a track from the Fingerprintz album Distinguishing Marks,[1] and later to be covered by Jim Kerr for his Lostboy project.

However, after label representatives saw an impressive live show they allowed the band to begin work on fourth album Seconds of Pleasure.

[5] "I Can Feel It" (the video for which featured a cameo role from Frances Corrigan, O'Neill's daughter's friend from Coatbridge) was, true to form, a hit in Europe and ignored in the UK.

Surrounded this time by his family – Aura, his daughter, who sings on two tracks (“Silent Highway”, “Onmamind”), James and Connor, his sons – and his close friends – Baptiste Brondy, from Nantes – drummer of french caribbean blues rock band "Delgrès", who co-produced the record, this eighth album was recorded in France at Nantes by Ben Bridgen, and mixed in Glasgow by Chris Gordon.