Anchor Me

Greenpeace , Music Video – 2005

from the single Single (2005)

This all star cover of Mutton Birds classic ‘Anchor Me’ was made to mark the 20th anniversary of the sinking of Greenpeace ship Rainbow Warrior. After Hinewehi Mohi’s haunting introduction, singers including Anika Moa, Kirsten Morrell (Goldenhorse) Che Fu, and Milan Borich (Pluto) walk towards the camera across a washed out landscape. Nuclear blasts, pollution and Greenpeace vessels can all be seen, while doves pull rainbows across the screen.

After years of turning down lucrative offers to link that song with every damn product from milk to electrical power, it feels perversely satisfying now to give it for free to people that I respect and trust — to help mark an anniversary that matters so much.
– Don McGlashan in a letter to the editor, The Sunday Star-Times, 29 May 2005, page C11