Joel burst onto the rock and blues scene as a founder member of the award-winning band Hokie Joint.
The band became crowd favourites on both the British and European tour circuit, as well as recording a live session for BBC Radio 2 at Maida Vale, and providing the soundtrack for the 2012 horror movie “Umbrage”, which starred Hellraiser actor Doug Bradley.

When the band folded, he and fellow Hokie Joint members JoJo Burgess and Stephen Cutmore rose from the ashes and formed a new group, LaVendore Rogue. The band released their debut CD – Light Up With LaVendore Rogue – in Spring 2016, followed by two live albums, “A Night In The North” and “From Tennessee To Teesside”, released on the back of their UK Blues Challenge victory in 2017. This saw the band take part in the International Blues Challenge in Memphis, TN and the European Blues Challenge in Hell, Norway in 2018.

His other band, Joel Fisk & The Breakdown, released their debut album, “The Well” in 2015, which topped the IBBA Blues Chart and led to them supporting the likes of The Blockheads, Robbie McIntosh, and Jo Harman.

Joel has also toured with Jon Amor (The Hoax) in “Fisk Amor” and enjoyed a stint as guitarist in Ian Siegal’s touring band for his 25th Anniversary Tour in 2016.

The list of acts Fisk has opened for over the years reads like a veritable who’s who of the rock world, including ZZ Top, Jeff Beck, Steve Winwood, and Moby. Not to mention Nine Below Zero, Paul Weller, and Joe Bonamassa.

He has been nominated four times as “Guitarist of the Year” in the British Blues Awards and won the “Favourite Guitarist” category in the Digital Blues Awards, and played such prestigious venues as the 100 Club in London, the Paradiso in Amsterdam and the Cognac Blues Festival in France.

Like all the greatest blues men, Fisk has walked the line and learned his trade the old-fashioned way, night after night and gig after gig. And the truth is he’s only just getting started. Watch out world, Joel Fisk is coming for you and he’s not going to take no for an answer.

Bio by Jamie Hailstone