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We’ve travelled far across the vast expanses, traversing the realm of null and void, in our Schwarzerkraft powered by infinite blackness. We come to subjugate you, pitiful light loving underlings. Our army of Night Soldiers will cleanse you of the colour infestation that has Salamanca in it’s grips. Too often have pastel colours crossed over from Rivers catalogues into mainstream fashion! We call out to all kindred spirits, oh blackwearers, to congregate at one place so that we may reach crtical black mass and purge our minds and thoughts of mainstream nightclubs and the vomitous ocular blasphemy of the Supre-set.
Goklings, where did the time go!? It seems only moments ago that Subzero and Scorpion and a whole horde of unearthly creatures possessed our minds in the name of Coven, but once again the elder gods call us, and we must heed their beckoning!
3 new DJs including Corpse Candy and DBM are ready to rock your New Rocks into an early grave alongside regulars: Changeling, Spreckenstein, Oblivion, Oblique, Dishlexia, Mandrax, Digi and Morvian.
What: The Coven:Friday 18th November @ PlanB.(upstairs Syrup) Where: PLAN.B (Top Floor, Syrup Nightclub), 39 Salamanca Place. When: FRIDAY, The 18th of November 2011, 10pm onwards Cost: $10 (but you get a bonus drink card) Why: You oughta!
We’ve touched the heart of winter, passed solstice and aphelion and as the snow begins to melt we need something to rekindle the darkness in our souls. We feel the urge to congregate to compound and amplify the darkness of our combined presence. We call to the four corners of the night for the dark, evil, unwanted things to come forth and join with us in dark communion. We name this unholy sacrament: The Coven.
Dear Goths and Goth Compatible Hellspawn, it seems as if it were a lifetime since we were all together, under the shadow of absinthe, bathed in the glory of earbleedingly loud aural destruction, swimming in the laser-light, one nation under stomp. Well never fear, on Friday the 12th of August we reunite. Warm up your best drinking livers, limber up with your finest goth stomp, prepare to strap on your combat boots, lace up your corset and set your eyeliner to “Khal Drogo”, because on the 12th we retake the night, and Salamanca!
11 brutal DJs will take you from velvety oldschool goth all the way to latex powered nu-school EBM with stops on the way via industrial rock, metal and synthpop.
What: The Coven: Friday 12th August @ PlanB.(upstairs Syrup)
Where: PLAN.B (Top Floor, Syrup Nightclub), 39 Salamanca Place.
When: FRIDAY, The 12th of August 2011, 10pm onwards
Cost: $10 (but you get a bonus drink card)
Why: Because we all need to bang our heads, fill them with absinthe and goth the fsck out!
Here at The Coven, we’re acutely aware that ‘awful’ things happen in the dark. But the dark is not just a place that we thrive, it is also the home of majesty and of terror for all us, just across the precipice of the unconscious. This Coven, we’ll cross the barrier and dive headfirst into the dreamworld, a place of nightmarish horrors and ecstatic serenity, and infect your dreams with the corrupting darkness that only The Coven… can provide!
Tease up your bedhair, put on your comfy-est bedsocks and gotherise your sleepwear in preparation for the journey into the sleeprealm! Those who sleep au naturale may want to spend the next week acclimatising and seeing just how uncomfortable it is to dance to ebm in the nude.
11 DJs including regulars Spreckenstein, Oblivion, Changeling and Digi will be at hand to induce 5 hours of naked pillow fighting insomnia with all the goth, alternative, EBM, and metal you dream of.
What: The Coven: Macabre Somnambulance Friday 8th July @ PlanB.(upstairs Syrup) Where: PLAN.B (Top Floor, Syrup Nightclub), 39 Salamanca Place. When: FRIDAY, The 8th of July 2011, 10pm onwards Cost: $10 (but you get a bonus drink card) Why: Because Duncan wants a valid reason to wear his Transformers slippers in public.
A dark shadow threatens to engulf the sky. This is a warning of the promise of a time of bitter frost, blackened days and frozen relentless dark.
Winter Comes. Sunlight wanes, and dark blooded unnatural nocturnal creatures thrive. Whether lurking in the long shadows or stalking the winter wastelands for their prey, these beast of night, diverse as they are, yearn to congregate in unholy union with the winter and the night itself. A place has been made at the nexus of these converging paths to facilitate the ungodly congregation. It is The Coven, and through it we revel in the retreat from the sun, the coming of the great darkness and winter’s icy chill.
On Friday the 10th of June, Winter Comes! The Coven: Winter Comes is a celebration of the most bleak and goth season we have!
Join with us in this festival of frost, as our 11 frostbitten DJs drive an icepick directly into your ear to deliver an avalanche of bone chilling tracks of pure gothic darkness. Winterfy your Gothiform, rug up, and prevent death by hypothermia the best way we know: congregated full body musically synchronised kinaesthetics on the PlanB dancefloor with a generous application of alcoholic beverages to warm your wintersoul.
What: The Coven: Winter Comes - Friday 10th June @ PLAN.B (upstairs Syrup) Where: PLAN.B (Top Floor, Syrup Nightclub), 39 Salamanca Place. When: FRIDAY, The 10th of June 2011, 10pm onwards Cost: $10 (but you get a bonus drink card) Why: WINTER COMES!
Its that time of the year when the days get shorter, the weather gets cooler, and something insidious sitrs in the shadows, waiting to be unleashed on that most magnificent of dates, Friday the 13th!
The Coven’s next installment takes place on that unluckiest of days. If you are like one of the over 17 million people in the US alone that are affected by the fear of something occuring on this day will you be avoiding walking under ladders, dark alley ways and lakeside camps? Or will you be embracing this unofficial goth holiday! Friday the 13th means many different things to different people, so come along and show us what it means to you, whether it be smashed mirrors, black cats, stalker/slashers, dark things and/or gore galore! One thing is for certain: you’re in for goth-tastic night!
Along with the usual slew of stomptastic tinnitus makers, we’ve got a couple of brand spanking new DJs to gently caress your ears into seductive aural submission.
What: The Coven - Friday the 13th - May @ PLAN.B (upstairs Syrup) Where: PLAN.B (Top Floor, Syrup Nightclub), 39 Salamanca Place. When: FRIDAY, The 13th of May 2011, 10pm onwards Cost: $10 (but you get a bonus drink card) Why: Celebrate this most unlucky of days, with our patented gothic Coven-style joie de vivre! (or is that joie de mort…)
According to our records, it appears you are due for your monthly checkup and treatments at The Coven Clinic for the Gothly Minded.
Your next appointment is at: Friday the 8th of April at our Salamanca practice located at Plan B, top floor of Syrup nightclub.
Our keen practitioners have extensive expertise in the latest subcultural treatment procedures to ensure you leave feeling at least 100% more gothly, dark and/or deviant.
As well as our usual oral and aural treatments, be sure to try our renowned Sensory Overstimulation Gothification technique, which includes equal amounts of our liquid based oral treatments, our sound wave bass frequency massage and our stroboscopic visual cortex brainwave enhancer. The latter uses precisely modulated laser light frequencies projected through vaporised suspended atmospheric oil droplets with the asstance of mirror refracted visual spectra beams to stimulate the Gothebellum and Gothorial Cortex areas of the brain.
All these combined in our specialised treatment room creates all the right conditions for group involuntary synchronised body convulsions, or what is colloquially known as “Tearing up the Dancefloor”.
Our highly trained experienced clinicians are guaranteed to provide you the best Gothification services. 11 of our finest aural practitioners will be at hand to provide direct treatment.
Recent scientific studies has proven that the most effective time for these treatments are after the hours of 10pm when the brain is most receptive to stimulation by the combined darker forces. It is preferred that you arrive on time to your appointment so that you may take full advantage of our treatment services.
regards, Dr Spreckenstein and all the team at The Coven Clinic for the Gothly Minded.
I smell a Coven in the air, and it does smell awfully evil…
I know you’re supposed to act in a “good” manner in order to appease St Nicholas the gift demon but sometimes thinking doing all those nice things gets tiring.. Showing humility all the time, supporting charities, being kind to absolutely everyone, expressing unending patience, torturing yourself with chastity, and exerting godlike levels of temperance and meticulous diligence?! The pressure on your sanity to maintain this is improbably enormous and lets face it, downright dangerous. Every now and then the biggest saint must become a sinner. Why lock it all away? Why not embrace it? We’ll on Friday the 11th of March we give you your outlet.
The Coven: 7 Deadly Sins is your chance to embody these concepts. Express these unholy vices in physical form, become your favourite sin! Lust, Gluttony, Greed, Sloth, Wrath, Envy or Pride? The choice is yours!
Embody your favourite decadent perversion, then join all the other sinners in an invocation struggle to appease the unholy entities associated with your chosen vice, through the power of physical expression on the dancefloor and the enlightenment brought by a strong medicinal elixir or two. Help us corrupt the last remaining vestiges of purity in upstairs Syrup (now called PLAN.B) with such a massive concentration of sin and iniquity by your unholy presence that the very fibres of its construction resonate with impure taint! (AKA: dress up, drink and dance with us, it is going to be rad!)
11 Decadent DJs will delve into the murky quagmire of goth, industrial, metal, alternative and ebm filth and emerge with the finest vice inducing tracks your ears have ever heard and lure you to the dancefloor steal your souls with their sirenesque aural seductions.
What: The Coven - 7 Deadly Sins - Fri 11th March @ PLAN.B (upstairs Syrup) Where: PLAN.B (Top Floor, Syrup Nightclub), 39 Salamanca Place. Access down the alley way between Knopwoods and the Fruit Market When: FRIDAY, The 11th of March 2011, 10pm onwards
Cost: $10 (but you get a bonus drink card) Why: A rad-arsed excuse to dress up all goth and in theme and shit, in a nightclub!
Also: PLAN.B is awesome. We’ve now got a dedicated entryway, our own smoking area and a quieter separated ‘lounge’ area so you dont have to be completely deaf at the end of Coven Come check it out if you’ve not seen the renovations!
Holy crap it’s 2011?! Who did that? We’ve already flown through the first month! Here at Coven central we’ve been sitting back drinking daiquiris in the sun, having BBQs and wearing Australian flag boxer shorts on Australia day. Oh wait, thats definitely not what we were doing, except the BBQs bit because Goth™s love searing flesh. Anyhow, we’ve recharged our batteries, gotten our year’s worth of vitamin D in one sitting thanks to that big yellow bastard and have a collective tonne of summertime decadence to dance off. This is where you come in. We can’t celebrate properly without your blood… I mean presence. It’d just be weird without you. So if you’ve been hanging out for a chance to dress up, dance like an idiot and consume innumerable amounts of alcoholic fluids, I’ve got a feeling you might be interested in heading on down to Syrup-town THIS FRIDAY night!
Picking up where we left off in 2010 The Coven is back this Friday for a gigaton of chaos and goth-style anarchy! As well as the usual Face-raping goth shots, happy hour from 10pm to loosen even the tightest of inhibitions and 11 Demonic DJs playing your favourite EBM/Metal/Goth/Alternative dancefloor annihilating classics, we’ve got a few new things for you too!
Firstly our entrance has moved! Instead of having to mingle with the general public, Syrup have recognised that those who frequent upstairs are of a much higher calibre than the filth, and have segregated upstairs awesomeness from the downstairs potential mediocrity. To facilitate this acknowledgement of our rad-itude, we now have to enter through VIP entrance: the alleyway, just to the left of the regular Syrup entrance.
Second major change is pricing. Instead of $7($6 members), the door people have decided that change is just too bourgeois for the higher echelon of society that frequents The Coven. Instead, it is going to cost $10 to get your arse in, but you’ll get a drink card to exchange for fluids at the Beverage Application Repository (B.A.R). Now you members don’t fret, we’re going to find a way to make you get a better deal at a later date because frankly we like you and you are more attractive and intelligent than those stinky non members!
11 DJs are being flown in directly from Valhalla (where they’ve been playing some hard EBM for the norse gods, turns out they love that shit) to send your face into another dimension via brute force aural attack! To gok your face off, we present for your listening pleasure djs: Oblique, Snipribbon, Oblivion, Sigil, Digi, Spreckenstein, Changeling, Mandrax, Dishlexia, Organelle and Gravedigger to annihilate you with a Nonstop block of goth!
So this Friday the 11th of February, this is where you’ll be:
What: The Coven - The Return! - Fri 11th Feb @ Syrup Where: Top Floor, Syrup Nightclub, 39 Salamanca Place When: FRIDAY, The 11th of February 2011, 10pm onwards Cost: $10 (but you get a bonus drink card) Why: Holy Crap its 2011 and I’ve not Coven’d yet. Better pretend I didn’t get a tan over summer and Goth my F*$King face off!
If you’ve not been to our latest venue before, Syrup has everything you’d need to make it, in my opinion, the best venue we’ve had The Coven in. Upstairs, where we inhabit, has a caged lounge area, an awesome bar, retro tabletop games, killer sound system. Syrup also has it’s own cloak room and ATM facility meaning unless you are nicotine addicted, you dont even have to leave the place. Awesome security, close to the 24 hour cab rank and just a stone’s throw from the bakehouse for some regenerative fuel after a night cavorting with the darkside.
Come check it out if you’ve not seen the renovations!
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