Brian El Dorado is a performing and recording artist and an operational firefighter. El Dorado has recorded six studio albums with material from his seventh album Songs From the Stairwell being released during 2026.The title refers primarily to most of the album's recording taking place within an internal stairwell in an old Melbourne Fire Station in late 2025. This recording took place whilst on annual leave from the service with producer Andy Baldwin (The Cat Empire, Paul Kelly, Dark Bardo) at the recording helm who also produced the bands last two albums Brian says, “Recording an album in a stairwell with Andy seemed like a good idea. I was doing most of my singing there on my downtime whilst on shift and it was a comfortable space for me to sing in with incredible natural reverb”.
El Dorado’s musical taste are diverse as evident in his band's six previous albums and three Ep’s. His band, The Tuesday People, are an eclectic group of accomplished and virtuoso jazz, blues and rock musicians. The band's sound is eclectic and spans everything from funk, blues, hip hop, folk, rock and soul.
Songs From The Stairwell is primarily a solo record that also encompasses further collaboration with acclaimed producer/musician Andy Baldwin. Almost all instruments are played by Brian with Orchestral Strings played by Andy and drumming on some songs by Sean Newell. Brian El Dorado and The Tuesday People formed in 2015 in Melbourne, Australia.
They released their first album, Eclectric, in 2016, followed by Wildfire (2017), Unofficial After Party (2019), and Let The Blood Run Free (2021). In 2022, they released two 7 inch vinyl singles through Choi Records, the brainchild of Cooking On 3 Burners drummer, Ivan ‘Choi’ Khatchoyan. In 2025 they released 2.22. The first of two albums recorded and mixed during 2045/25. The band have performed extensively around Melbourne since 2015 including multiple festival performances and a Rural Victorian/East Coast Tour in 2018.