The Goth Club

Location: Insignia (corner of Flinders & Kings streets)

In short: Went to Black Widows on the weekend. Good time, no head-ache, reasonable conversation.

Crowd Type: Furries, Tamagothies, Cyberpunks, Generics

Drinks: Standard prices, no premiums other than beer.

Music: Mostly industrial and EBM.

I’ve gotta say, I’ve enjoyed getting back into the scene lately, and this is one of the Melbourne goth clubs that actually does it for me.

Possibly because nearly a decade ago I supplied Myki, the promoter, some 15gb worth of music and he’s been playing mostly the same tracks since, but mostly because it’s not quite so stereotypical a ‘club’, goth or otherwise.

One of the things that irks me about clubs is that people form cliques. If you’re new and don’t know anyone, it’s often bloody hard to actually get to know people. Between the music basically destroying any chance of having a conversation, and people assuming you’re a sexual predator if you want to buy them a drink, you usually have Buckleys. Added the regular “air-hair-lair” snootiness that’s tied in with the old school goth scene, or the “Oh, I’m an electro-steam-graver and you’re not” endless subdivisions in the younger crowd, it’s nice to go to  place where people will actually be friendly.

That’s not to say there aren’t established groups at BWs, but they’ll more often than not talk to you if you want in on the conversation, and there’s a bit of diversity in crowd types between the cliques in the first place. It’s also not to say it’s not the kind of club that you can’t go to to hookup. Quite the opposite in fact. This weekend, pretty much anyone that tried (or didn’t… remember, act nonchalant!) managed to get somewhere from what I saw. But unlike a lot of other crowds, you’re not on auto-shun if people know you’re already taken.

All up, an enjoyable night out.

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