Joel Silbersher


Joel Silbersher is a musician from Melbourne, Australia, who was the singer and guitar player for rock and roll band, GOD. GOD had a minor but enduring hit with "My Pal," a song written by Silbersher. Since its release in 1988, "My Pal" has been covered by bands such as Dinosaur Jr, Magic Dirt, Violent Soho, Bonnie Prince Billy, and Peabody. At the closing of Melbourne's Tote Hotel, Silbersher and The Drones played "My Pal" as the very last song.
Silbersher went on to form Hoss and Tendrils, with Charlie Owen, also working with Tex Perkins' Dark Horses and Dirty Three. He has recorded as a solo artist, releasing the album Greasy Lens on King Crab Records in October 2002. Silbersher has appeared on many records, particularly Darkhorses and Murray Paterson's Headland albums, but has barely released anything of his own in the last decade. Occasional seven inches by Hoss and Joel have popped up, the most recent being 'No Teeth' by Joel Silbersher.. The second solo Silbersher album "I came as soon as I heard' is due soon as is HOSS' 'A Shooter's sandwich" album, their first in 20 years.
Silbersher is the singing voice of Glenn Robbins' lead singer character in the reward-winning 'elderly boyband' spoof 'Boytown' He claims it is the best job he'd ever had.