In 2003 “You’re Going To Lose That Girl” by The Beatles played on the radio. Joel had never heard the song and had no idea of who the band was but immediately music became a huge interest in his life. After 3 months of asking his parents, Joel was finally buying his first guitar. Though Joel began creating tunes right away, it wasn’t until 2005 until he wrote his first song “Why Doesn’t She”.
He and his brother Sam Dobbins cofounded Gravier. Between 2006 and 2013, the brothers recorded around 50 songs. The body of work remained unreleased until 2019 when they picked an hour’s worth of their favourites of those songs and released them as an album called “I Decided To Tell You”.
In 2011, Joel took up Bass Guitar and within months was performing in Firelucy, a pop/jazz band. The first gig he performed was just 3 days after joining the band and learning the songs. The group went on to write more songs together eventually releasing an EP called “Puppet” in 2013.
To broaden his musical experience, Joel joined a second band Euryale later the same year, a symphonic metal band. The group came second in a band competition, played festivals and got aquainted with a lot of well known people in the industry. They began recording an album but unfortunately the drummer left overseas and hence gigs came to a standstill.
After performing live and travelling overseas, Joel began learning new instruments such as Drums, Ukulele, Harmonica and Clarinet. Four months after setting up his home recording studio, Joel released his debut EP “Forever Girl” in 2019.
Currently, Joel is follow up EP “Freedom”, having now added Mandolin to his repertoire of instruments, due to be released in 2020.