“I started off in bands affiliated with churches,” Nicholas Wilbur says with a laugh. “So I guess it’s come full circle. As kids, of course, all of us secretly wanted to be in non-church bands.”
Wilbur, a boyish 36, in sandals and shorts with auburn-brown hair and an easygoing manner, swivels in his command chair. He sits before an eight-foot-wide Quad Eight Pacifica Console in the choir loft—well, former choir loft—of St. Mary’s Catholic Church in Anacortes, Washington, which he converted to a mixing room in 2016.
Wilbur moved into the church in 2010 with local musician Phil Elverum (The Microphones, Mount Eerie). Together they christened
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