Mistletone

The Orbweavers launch their eagerly awaited new album Loom at Northcote Social Club on Sunday 30 October. This will be a matinee show, with doors opening at 2pm and support from The Townhouses. Tickets on sale now from the venue.

Loom will be released on October 28 by Mistletone Records / Inertia.

“The Moon rises at the end of our street, over the Merri Creek. Most nights we walk with Fern, a retired racing greyhound, down towards the water, which follows an 800,000 year old lava flow – still visible as large swathes of basalt along the bank. Melbourne is threaded with waterways heading south towards the sea. Over the years streams, floodplains and even a saltwater blue lake in North Melbourne have been filled and realigned to expedite industrialisation of the city. The land itself still holds a memory, and during a wet season, water finds its old way home.

“By the late 1800s the Merri Creek and surrounds had been overtaken by bluestone quarries and clay pits for brick making. Later, after World War I, knitting mills and textile factories rose in the narrow streets. Most of these early industries have now gone, but remnants are visible: stone footings, chimneys and saw-tooth rooves to catch the light. The past is not completely erased – garment factories still hum in the backstreets; the clay soil cracks in summer and clings in winter. Casurarinas have been replanted along the creek bank, over long filled quarry holes, their fallen needles are a muted bed for our feet. These are some of the stories we were thinking about during the writing and recording of Loom.”