Make Much Wenlock Weird's final event before our summer hiatus will be our rescheduled Christmas show. Headlining the event will be award-winning sound and performance artistAja Ireland "A contemporary priestess of the digital underground". Making deconstructed club and industrial techno whose live shows are described in The WIRE Magazine as Shifting from ethereal diffusions to potent explosions. Following her recent explorations at the intersection of visceral sound design, club culture and AI, British electronic artist (and founder of Queer Noise Club) Aja returns with her new album Cryptid via Infinite Machine' out on January 31st. A high-impact album steeped in themes of empowerment, resilience and mysticism. A vivid testament to the underground culture that shaped her, fusing blistering soundscapes, experimental lyrics, and club-ready energy to encapsulate Ajas unique and confrontational artistry. Support will be provided byENGLAND'S COUNCIL OF LEGISLATION AND GOVERNING BODY OF HYPER REAL SIMULATIONS AND CONSTRUCTS, a multimedia art powerhouse and curatorial project by Atay Ilgun, conceptually focusing on mythic themes/folklore that permeate the archetypal echelons of the contemporary digital psyche, hypermedia and our ken of the existential milieu. Expect draconic mediaeval EDM, crystal swampcore, deep-fried Digital Middle Age hyperblackmetalpop, magick Lamborghini ride-core, delysidMIDI trance chord-pack dance tunes for shaking stars, sampling of prayers from alternate worlds, sp3xtral matrix-grim3, postnuclear Barbican skatepark Splice pack mash-up dancefloor music, 3D glitter pandemonium .gif flower garden ambient and folk music of the other syde. Further support comes from Infernal Machines, a new project by MMWW's organiser Tom Whiston.Infernal Machines is an all hardware based, fully unplanned and improvised fight to the death between performer and machine, blurring the lines of who or what is really in control of the performance. Expect breakcore, Gabba, industrial techno and a good helping of noise. Please note doors will open at 19:00, with the first act at 19:30.