Electronic noise experimentalists Whitehouse (William Bennett and Philip Best) have given and received torrents of aesthetic abuse in their 20-year career, their 'aural sadism' and lyrical violence triggering accusations of misogyny, nazi-ism and banality from some and fanatic devotion from others. “ ” [sic] Goldie goes beyond hagiography and demonology ‘to twist a political issue from the inside’.

[This is the full-length version of a text that appears in abridged form in Mute issue 28.]