Joel Dobbins

==Introduction==
Joel Dobbins is an Australian singer-songwriter, lyricist and multi-intrumentalist. residing in Sydney, Australia. His fourth album You Know Who You Are is due to be released at the end of 2023 . Joel was a member of the band Firelucy which he joined in 2012 , a member of Euryale which he joined in 2013 and a member of Gravier which he co-founded in 2005. Since 2019, Joel has actively been releasing music as part of his solo career.
==Early Years==
When Joel was 12, he recalls hearing what he later found out to be You're Going To Lose That Girl by The Beatles and was mesmerised and made sure he remembered it so he could find out what it was the next morning. Not long after, in September 2003, Joel's parents bought him his first guitar. By this stage Joel had been getting into the rest of The Beatles' catalogue especially the album Rubber Soul. Joel later cites his longterm influences to include Muse and Fleetwood Mac as well.
==Career==
===Home Recordings===
From October 2005, Joel started recording musical ideas and demos at home. At first they weren't complete songs, but they gradually grew to become full songs which led to the formation of the band Gravier. 
===Gravier===
Joel's first multi-track recording was for a song called Can't You See, to be released on Joel's upcoming 2003 album You Know Who You Are, which marked the start of recording songs at home for Gravier. 
====I Decided To Tell You Album====
Eventually Gravier released their album over 10 years after recording it in 2019 called I Decided To Tell You.
===Firelucy===
Not long after purchasing a bass guitar, Joel joined the band Firelucy as the bassist and occasional acoustic guitarist. With Joel Dobbins joining, the band found a new style of sound which toured mostly around the Illawarra, just south of Sydney. They also featured on VOX FM (see recording), a local radio station, and Triple J Unearthed. The band were featured in a write up in the Tertangala Magazine as well. Alyssa Martin for The Fix interview Firelucy as well.
====Puppet EP====
They released the EP entitled Puppet in early 2013. The EP was recorded in 2 days in October 2012 and was recorded at Short Studios in Wollongong. They performed to crowds of up to 850 as part of their EP launch. The official EP launch concert was held at Dicey Riley's in Wollongong, with the Illawarra Mercury writing an article about the band, praising their onstage performance. 
===Euryale===
To further his musical career and broaden his repertoire, Joel joined a Sydney symphonic power/metal band as bassist whilst concurrently also remaining in his Wollongong founded band Firelucy. The band, originally named Eve of NitemareZ, featured in many band competitions but unfortunately disbanded shortly after the drummer moved to Canada. 
===Solo (2019–present)===
Joel, from previous bands had already demonstrated his abilities with singing, guitar, bass guitar and keyboards but not yet with drums. Joel bought a drumset and quickly started recording all of the instruments himself in what he dubbed Inky Studios. Additionally, Joel upgraded his equipement for recording vocals as well, purchasing a Joel began using a Rode NT1-A Condenser Microphone.
====Forever Girl EP====
In 2019, Joel began his solo career with his release of the EP titled Forever Girl. This featured songs recorded mostly in 2019 but also from earlier demos as earlier as 2012 with the song Goodbye. His best friend from school, Josh Whalan, mixed and mastered this EP. The title track Forever Girl was inspired by William Shakespeare and Robin Gibb's song Juliet (Robin Gibb song)|Juliet.
====Freedom and Yes Albums====
Throughout 2020, Joel went on to mix and master two new albums himself during the Covid lockdown period which were Freedom and Yes
====Watching Like A Hawk Album====
Similarly to the Forever Girl EP, Joel outsourced the mixing and mastering process but this time asking another friend Attila Rozgonyi from Red Dirt Audio to experiment with what sound he could generate, which became the album called Watching Like A Hawk
====You Know Who You Are Album====
After a break away from recording which lasted 20 months, Joel returned to recording songs again, this time mixing the songs himself but having his school friend mastering it, as he had done with the Forever Girl EP from 2019. 
Category:1989 births
Category:People from Dubbo
Category:Australian people
Category:Musicians
Category:Songwriters