Greetings

It’s time to buckle up your boots again, apply the eyeliner with a trowel and set your corsets to “stun”. Coven is back next Friday the 10th, Celebrating 10 Years of Chaos at our new deliciously deviant venue, Syrup (upstairs) in Salamanca.

For all those who missed out last time, we have goth shots back again and even more incentive for you to show up early, happy hour. The goth shots are face-rapingly insane. Those from the Trout days can attest to their effectiveness and ability to fuel many a dancing mission all the way through the night! And what better reason to show up and get down to some oldschool before the night ramps up with some cheap happy hour. Last time it was cheap cider and pints, who knows what delights await for those who like to kick the night off with some filthy gothic atmosphere.

Last time was a success of apocalyptic proportions and this Coven will be no different! 11 DJs will slowly massage your brain into dancefloor destruction machine with liberal and subtle application of equal parts darkness, rage and chaos directly injected via the auditory nerve.

So get ready to tear up the dancefloor under the kaleidoscopic lights, to feel the deep vibrations of a sound system loud enough to wake the gods, and to indulge in the delights of the expansive bar, as next Friday we rise once more.

And if you weren’t awesome enough to come along last time, 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.

So on Friday the 10th of September, this is where you’ll be:
Where: Syrup, upstairs Knopwoods, 39 Salamanca Place, Hobart
When: Friday 10th of September, 10pm onwards
How much: $7+ID, $6 Coven members
Why: Because the Chaos rises and needs to be let out, The Coven style!

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Coven Poster September 2010
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When: Friday 13th August 2010, 10pm till late
Where: Upper Level, Syrup Nightclub, Salamanca Place
Bring: $7 + ID ($6 members)
Why: Because you can only dance in your seat for so long
What:

Greetings Covenites

The wait is over, the darkness has been absent too long. The time has come to spread our midnight black wings and take to the skies once more. The Coven has returned. 10 years on and still infecting minds with the aural blasphemy of Goth, Industrial, EBM, Metal and Dark Alternative.

…On Friday the 13th of August, 2010, The Coven returns to Salamanca, and to the central bastion of Electronic Dance music in Hobart, Syrup Nightclub. Come celebrate 10 years of The Coven with a Friday the 13th event at the premier dance music nightclub in Hobart.

We will be running on the upstairs floor of the venue and there will be a separate stamp/cover for Coven goers and a bouncer on the second stairwell to prevent cross contamination with the downstairs crowd. Upstairs is completely self contained, with a bangin’ sound system, awesome lights, multiple dancefloor areas and a well stocked bar. Syrup also has a well organised crowd controller team keeping the front smoking area safe from potential undesirables. It is also located close to the cab rank, ATMs and the 24 hour bakery for all your post gothification needs.

Dust off your corset, apply your warpaint, charge up your tactical headgear and recalibrate the tension on your brute force stomping devices (aka: boots), because The Coven has 10 years worth of hatred built up and we need to release it in true Coven fashion! Destroy your liver, then destroy your feet, dance the top floor into the bottom and celebrate with me!

Djs Spreckenstein, Digi, Oblivion and Changeling shall be providing the soundtrack of armageddon so expect the usual spread of Goth/Industrial/EBM/Metal/Dark Alternative, now with a radtacular soundsystem! More DJs to be announced.

More info to come.

See you on the 13th

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

You heard it here first (and on the twitter autopost integration!)!

Probably should post the important stuff:

Saturday 5 July 2008

Angelspit + Spreckenstein + Coven DJs

The Brisbane Hotel,

3 Brisbane St,
Hobart 7000.

Starts 9pm.
$10

I.D.is required for entry (18+)

Ahhhh so, yes, the forum is down…. and has been down for about a week after approximately 6 months of 30 spam sign ups a day, non spam sign ups being refused and other hilarious shenanigans (none of which are remotely funny). So here is a baby blog instead. The theme hasn’t been massaged yet.. and I’m trying to get the categories to display but that will come when I have some spare time.

Anyway, this is where we will be posting updates and people can comment and it will be Bigger and Better™ than the forum… especially if we can convince Spreckenstein and perhaps some of our regular DJs to do post some STUFF.

It very happily coincides with our 8th birthday. Yes, that’s right, The Coven is 8! That’s pretty god damned old for a Goth Club. Spreckenstein and myself have been running Coven since February 2003 and we were ably assisted by our good mate QZ for the year we were at the Good Woman Inn. So, we’ve had 5 venues, countless door bitches, DJs and bands from all over the place and a very loyal group of awesome people who have seen us through the lot.. and we thank you!

To celebrate our 8 year anniversary, we’re holding a mighty big gig!

More details to come soon!

oh and the blog looks a bit odd at the moment, I’m going to fix this.