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