Due to the changeover of ownership at Halo, we will not be running a Coven in June. We are currently investigating what our options are in terms of venue and will announce where and when the next event will be. As you can imagine, this is mildly annoying as this was going to be the 10 year anniversary event, and we were only made aware of these developments relatively recently.

Fortunately we’ve had some rather promising information come to light so we’re hoping the downtime between Coven events will be as little as possible.

Above all, it doesn’t matter where we have Coven, as long as it happens, and Coven is not the venue, but its the people, the music (and a rather large amount of alcohol) that make it all work. We could run the event at a lot of places but securing the right one is the important thing for us, so we can have a safe goth friendly environment where we can all relax, and generally cause chaos without potential nastiness.

Hopefully we’ll have some news to deliver soon, but in the meantime we’d like to thank you for coming along and making Coven what it is.

If you’ve got anything you’d like to add, any input you’d like to put forward, head over to the discussions page of the “The Coven Nightclub” group and let us know there.

See you on the dancefloor at the next Coven

- Spreckenstein and The Coven Gok™s

As it gets cooler, the days get shorter and the sun leaves us for greater departures each day. All these signal arrival of that time of year, they are the heralds of the season of gothness, a time when goths thrive in their natural environment, and the perfect time for The Coven.

When mere mortal humans are rugging up on a Friday night in front of the football on their televisions in the comfort of their dens of normalcy and mediocrity, there are stirrings in the shadows of the city. On the right day, at the right time, whispers build to voices as one approaches the darkened alley in the heart of the city. The symphony advances upwards to a crescendo of chaos as one enters the doorway and climbs the stairs. Inside: a goth/industrial modern bacchanalia… The Coven

Set your boots to “stomp”, your corsets to “crush”, your eyeliner to “black like your soul” and prepare to dance the cold right out of your extremeties, The Coven returns once again to deliver your monthly dose of evil directly into your veins. This month The Coven plays host to members of the Hobart Photographic Society who will be floating around the fringes to capture your souls in 2 dimensional form, so be sure to dress your best and show them true goth hospitality, and if you’re lucky we’ll get some awesome photographic evidence of your gothness to put up on the website! We’ve worked with these guys before and their work is rather excellent!

Bringing you the terrifying soundtrack to this orgy of alcohol, dancing and general merriment and frivolity are DJs Anatomical Sheath, Changeling, Digi, Dishlexia, Mandrax, Oblivion, Ozmosis, Ramiel, Sigil and Spreckenstein, serving you the finest in GOTH, INDUSTRIAL, EBM, AGGROTECH, METAL and DARK ALTERNATIVE.

What: THE COVEN
Where: HALO nightclub. 37a Elizabeth st (Access via Purdy’s Mart, behind the Mall, off Collins st)
When: Friday, 7th May 2010, 10pm onwards
Cost: $7+ID ($6 members)
Why: Dance your coldness away, Celebrate with some total goffix insanity

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Have you noticed the sun has this ever so slight tint of red in it today? That is because it is preparing for BLUT ROT II tomorrow night, as should you! The streets will run blood red as The Coven launches into full red hued apocalyptic chaos!

Mark yourself for war and prepare for the cleansing aural fire provided by our lovely djs including:
Arddhu, Ramiel, Dishlexia, Mandrax, Oblique, Spreckenstein, Changeling, Oblivion and Digi.

To get us in the mood, Digi will be starting the evening with some soothing noise and chaotic ambient before hell gets unleashed with our two newest additions to the fold, Arddhu and Ramiel who will burn our ears with searing metal and filthy dark delights. After we’re nicely warmed up, the sanguinary flood will spill from the sky as a wall of EBM, Aggrotech, Futurepop, Metal, Oldschool Goth, Industrial Electro and Dark Alternative pummels your senses and sets your boots to “STOMP”!

So lace your corsets red, and soak your favourite shirt in the blood of your enemies. BLUT ROT returns tomorrow night!

See you on the dancefloor
- Spreckenstein

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Help us choose the theme for the Final 2009 Coven!

December is rapidly approaching and we need to get our marketing department into shape for the final onslaught.. So drop us your suggestions!

For the sake of ultimate cheesiness, if you can think of a theme AND title AND fit the word “Goth” in there it would be awesome (although not necessary), to continue the last two months’ horribly cheesy titles: “Gothtober” and “Goth-O-Ween”.

Here’s some ideas (pilfered from loyal Covenites) to get you started:
- Dark Fantasy
- Masquerade
- 7 Deadly Sins
- Black tie/Formal
- Victorian
- Gore
- Apocalypse

Have a think, utilise your genius and we’ll see if we can make it happen!

Chairs,
Spreckenstein

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What: The Coven: Gothtober
Where: Halo Nightclub - 37A Elizabeth St (Access from Purdy’s Mart off Collins St)
When: Friday 2hd October 2009, 10pm onwards
Cost: $7 + ID ($6 Members)
Why: The best reason to get your goth on in Hobart!

October has officially been renamed Gothtober as The Coven brings you not one but two events next month.

First up is Coven on Friday 2nd of October at Halo. Resident and guest DJs will serve out all the Goth, Industrial, Metal and Aggrotech your puny bodies can handle.

Then on the 17th of October electronic music legend David Thrussell aka Snog makes his first ever Hobart appearance at The Brisbane Hotel.

When: Friday 7th August 2009, 10pm till late
Where: Halo, 37A Elizabeth St (entry via Purdy’s Mart)
Bring: $7 + ID ($6 members)
What:

After a mammoth showing in July, The Coven is back on Friday 7th of August.

This month we’re introducing even more new DJs and promising more music genres than you can poke a stick at. Industrial, EBM, Metal and Goth, all tastes will be catered for.

Featuring resident DJs Changeling, Spreckenstein, Maggot, Digi, and Oblivion plus guests TBA.