Oldies but goodies from Tom Ellard of Severed Heads, on the trouble with fan spaces (I was on the email list version for a coupla years, it was pretty good then) and a reminder that fan is short for “fanatic.” The artist’s shit effect is the mildest form. You cannot buy souls on a record. “I’ve started forwarding messages and phone recordings to the police, hoping to get someone to leave me the hell alone or get a warrant. And I’m nobody.”

This is the complete 103MB pile of stuff the industrial hideous noise band Whitehouse (founded in 1980 and, amazingly, still extant) put up on the old mp3.com in 2000/2001. It makes a good stab at being the most horrible noise in the world (slightly more hideous than Filth by the Swans), with lyrics as offensive as the music. It is a highly rated head-clearing noise and will get your neighbours either moving out within an hour or wanting a copy. “I often fantasised about creating a sound that could bludgeon an audience into submission.”

Is Joy Division goth or post-punk? When played by hitting bits of metal, you may wonder. Best cover of “Transmission” ever, by steel band Steel Harmony for Manchester Procession last Sunday.

Old-school industrial MP3s — obscure tapes and tiny pressings you’ve only ever heard of. Before drum machines ruined everything. I particularly recommend Rising From The Red Sand, volumes 1, 2, 3, 4 and 5. Fodder for your late ’70s personal soundtrack device.

Also recommended: Brainwashed Radio. Just the background noise for an hour’s polite discussion over tea with religious salesmen.