April 27, 2012 10:00 pm

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April 28, 2012 5:00 am

We all thought it was gone. We were wong.

Black Widows is back. Turns out you can bite the head off after sex and keep going! Seriously though, it’s actually more of a nostalgia trip than a regular club event, which frankly should make it more fun, as people tend to cast aside their differences, issues, and politicking and come along just to either make fun of all the people that they used to make fun of at Abyss and Heresy or because they don’t remember how much they used to bitch in the first place.

It’s back in its old location at the Bass Lounge, although it doesn’t have the nice private conversation booths anymore.

April 30, 2010 9:00 pm

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May 1, 2010 4:00 am

It’s the end of an era – Black Widows is finally shutting down. It’s a little saddening (but what on the goth scene isn’t, right?) as it was a good haunt for the people that were more than happy to take the scene with a grain of salt, a little pseudoephedrine, and a lot of good humour. (more…)

Having gone to Golgotha last night, it occurs to me that a lot of promoters really… well… can’t.

Promote that is.

I’ve decided that as I endeavour to make GothClub.com.au more of a site that is of actual use to the Australian gothic community, rather than something for the amusement and blitherings of myself & select friends, that I’ll be putting up a list of clubs that are on around the country, special events, etc., and a little bit of detail on everything that I can get. I was also hoping that a few people from interstate might even consider writing reviews for their local haunts and keeping me updated with events that are happening outside of Victoria

To that end, I decided to do some serious research on the national goth scene and found something that really flabbergasted me.

The majority of goth clubs are really poorly promoted. (more…)

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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