Flying Nun Records 1993 calendar featuring the month of September as illustrated and designed by Michael Morley of The Dead C, Gate and Wreck Small Speakers On Expensive Stereos.
We’ve turned the page from Jane Dodd’s August spread to this decidedly starker one by Michael Morley who, like all of the contributors to this calendar, are also musicians affiliated in some way with Flying Nun. If you're familiar with the music of Michael Morley's various projects, you might expect his design contribution to the Flying Nun calendar to look something like this: spare, abstract, strangely compelling.
TIL from the bio on the back: He wrote (and sang) the a-side of the lone 7″ single by The Weeds, a Dunedin supergroup indeed, Robert Scott (The Bats), Shayne Carter (Straitjacket Fits) and Wayne Elsey (Doublehappys), among others.
The other tidbit in that paragraph was more puzzling than illuminating. I am curious as to why he needed to “save Port Chalmers from being turned from a nice little town into a large pile of woodchips on a wharf.” When I was there in 2016 to see The Clean, I learned it was quite a popular cruise port, with tourists helping to fuel the downtown of small retail shops. But I reckon it was quite different 23 years prior.