Q&A BILL FISHER

The Church Of The Cosmic Skull frontman discusses thinking like a billionaire, running his own DIY label, and “yacht doom”.

Dave Everley

‘Brother Bill’ Fisher is a busy man. As well as leading Nottingham’s brilliant, multi-headed musical pseudo-cult Church Of The Cosmic Skull, the hirsute multi-instrumentalist has also released three solo albums, which fuse lush musicality with the same slyly satirical worldview that characterises his band. The latest is the wryly titled How To Think Like A Billionaire. Written largely on an old-school Yamaha PSR-8000 keyboard, it draws on everything from 70s soft rock, prog and 80s art-pop to grinding metal – something Fisher, who plays all the instruments on the album, describes as “yacht doom”. “When Stevie Wonder did Songs In The Key Of Life, he decided to embrace the chunkiness of the Yamaha sound,” he says. “I thought, ‘If it’s good enough for him, it’s good enough for me…’” ‘Yacht…

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