DJ Fisher is putting those weird antics to good use in an upcoming kids’ film. Photo: via Facebook.
Gold Coast culture has many things: surf clubs, high-rises, meter maids, festival singlets, beachfront ambition, strange fame, and apparently, now, Pixar gnomes.
FISHER has gone from Palm Beach party starter to Pixar voice actor, landing a surprise role in the Australian and New Zealand release of Toy Story 5.
The Gold Coast DJ and producer, born Paul Fisher, will voice Garden Gnome in the local release of the Disney and Pixar film, which arrives in Australian cinemas in June.
It is a very strange and very perfect sentence to write: one of the Gold Coast’s biggest global music exports is now a Toy Story garden gnome.
The role marks a new kind of crossover for FISHER, who has spent the past decade turning tech-house chaos into a worldwide brand while somehow still sounding like someone yelling across a Palm Beach barbecue.
From Palm Beach to Pixar
FISHER has never really let go of the Gold Coast thing.
He grew up in Palm Beach, has called the suburb home, and even named his 2022 track “Palm Beach Banga” after the place that shaped him.
These days, that connection is also turning into bricks and concrete. FISHER and his wife Chloe Fisher are behind Pescado, a luxury apartment development planned for Jefferson Lane in Palm Beach, a street he has spoken about as part of his own childhood surf and bike-riding history.
Still losing it, just in bigger rooms
FISHER first broke through internationally with “Losing It”, the ridiculous, rubbery dance-floor weapon that helped turn him into one of Australia’s most recognisable electronic exports.
Since then, the former pro surfer has taken his shouty, bucket-hat, high-voltage chaos to some of the biggest dance stages in the world, from Coachella and Ibiza to major festival main stages and arena-sized club events.
In 2023, he and Chris Lake took their Under Construction project to Los Angeles and shut down Hollywood Boulevard for a massive street party, the kind of stunt that feels less like a normal DJ set and more like someone accidentally gave the Gold Coast keys to the city.
This year, he is also back in Ibiza, with a Thursday residency at [UNVRS] running through the European summer.
Not bad for a bloke from Palmy who now somehow exists somewhere between world festival stages, luxury beachfront development plans and the Toy Story toy box.
A family franchise moment
The Toy Story role also lands during a big personal chapter for FISHER and Chloe Fisher.
The couple welcomed their second daughter, Andi Bloom Fisher, earlier this year, a little sister for Bobbi Maree Fisher, who was born in 2024 after the couple’s widely shared fertility journey.
That makes the Pixar news feel less like a random celebrity cameo and more like a very sweet family-era flex: dad goes from Ibiza residency to Disney character.
Toy Story 5 brings back the world of Woody, Buzz and the gang, with a new tech-age storyline and a local release that now includes one of Queensland’s loudest exports as a garden gnome.
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