The mysterious Black Mekon and his brother Black Mekon will be performing as Black Mekon at the anti-Christmas Scream Santa Scream party this Friday at Minerva Works. The perfect anti-dote to the festive mincing machine that assumes your senses want to be jackhammered into submission by a paralysing litany of fake goodwill, bland music and stick on smile jollity. Let Black Mekon’s dirty and noisy hillbilly blues transport you from hellish winter wonderlands to sludge fest swamps where Dasher, Dancer, Prancer and any of the other Santa dragging reindeer would end up slaughtered and consumed under a barrage of yuletide clubbing riffs. DJ Priscila B will categorically be playing NO Christmas music and a miserable Santa Claus is promised. Ho ho NO.

Fri 9 Dec 9pm at Minerva Works, 158 Fazeley St Birmingham B5 5RS £3 OTD www.facebook.com/