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The Sky Was a Mouth Again, Various Artists on Diet of Worms, 21.07.25. Following the powerful statement of 2024’s Hunger Is Violence compilation in aid of the Ireland Palestine Solidarity Campaign, Diet of Worms returns with a new international release in solidarity with the people of Palestine. This time, the project reaches beyond Ireland’s borders, bringing together an eclectic group of international artists to reinterpret one of music’s most mythic and enigmatic songs: Louie Louie. Titled The Sky Was a Mouth Again, the compilation is a bold reimagining of Richard Berry’s 1955 garage anthem - a song that has echoed through decades of protest, censorship, and counterculture. Across continents and genres, artists have responded to the track with interpretations that are urgent, fractured, defiant, and deeply moving.

The project features contributions from a deeply eclectic and experimental cast: Alex Macfarlane Amber Meulenijzer Burger Service Charles Hayward (This Heat, Camberwell Now) Conrad Standish (CS + Kreme) & Valentina Magaletti (Vanishing Twin, Moin) Elias Rønnenfelt (Iceage) ELLLL Garbaggio (Nic Offer (!!!) and Sadie Laska (Growing)) Guests I.U.D. (Lizzi Bougatsos - Gang Gang Dance) and Sadie Laska - Growing) Junior Brother Lea Bertucci Leda (Sofie Herner - Enhet för fri musik, Neutral) Maarja Nuut White Magic (Mira Billotte & Tim Horner) Nonpareils (Aaron Hemphill - ex-Liars & Angelika Kaswalder) Rich(ard) Dawson The Shifters @the_shifters_101 Wild Billy Childish & CTMF These are artists who blur borders: between genres, nations, sound and meaning. Their versions of Louie Louie are deeply personal and politically resonant - unraveling the song’s iconic riff into haunting drones, percussive mantras, distorted noise, spectral melodies, and everything in between. Available on limited-edition cassette and digital download via Diet of Worms Bandcamp on July 21st 2025, the compilation features striking cover art by Irish artist Cian Walker @_cian_walker_ All net proceeds will be donated to Medical Aid for Palestinians (MAP) and the United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA) @medicalaidpal @unrwa

Diet of Worms are releasing another compilation in aid of Palestine on 21/7/25 - The Sky Was a Mouth Again.

All net proceeds will be donated to Medical Aid for Palestinians (MAP) and the United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA).

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In bookshops this November, back from the printers in summer.

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A screengrab of a headline from a Guardian column by Adrian Chiles. The headline reads 'I recently saw something in a petrol station toilet southbound on the M1 that I can never unsee'

I had been driving for hours, so focused, so filled with intent that I had to peel my hands from the wheel, finger by crooked finger, and the bright lights of the service station seen through the windscreen were overlaid with the phantom after-image of the road - an infinity of broken white lines ready to be consumed. When I stepped out of the car for the first time since Edinburgh - since my mother, since the fight she made us have, since the mind-blotting rage which had sent me lurching towards her, and sent her stumbling, tripping, falling down the stairs to smash her skull against the cold tiled floor below - my legs felt unsteady, weak as though bloodless, and I had to pummel my fist against my thighs to get them to work, finally making my way, stiff-legged like some Halloween costume Frankenstein, to the toilet block. When I looked up from the sink, my face in the mirror looked like it belonged to a much older man, my skin sallow and so loose on the bones that I had the sense that one scratch with a fingernail might cause it to fall away completely. But beyond that, beyond me, in the rear of the room, beside the cubicles, stood something else, something awful, something that has stuck with me ever since. Something broken-necked and bloody, something death-rotten. Something that even now watches over me as I write. It used to be my mother. Now it’s just the hate that’s left of her.

#9: Toilet

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Liberál? Okay, will allow it. :-)

This was wonderful. Ordered the book, obviously. Based on the extract and the show, I'm just gobsmacked by it all.
Bought Tim's other books on the back of it all. Tremendous. Tremendous. Tremendous.

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I'll be at nts.live playing some dreamy feedback-driven tunes related to my Czech shoegaze book Šeptej nahlas. First-wavers Ecstasy of St. Theresa next to the loose scene of local experimentalists like Päfgens, sleepswimming, Sunnbrella or Black Tar Jesus. Tune in at 7PM London time (6PM CET).

Will print and post in three English-language bookshops in Prague.

It's funny because it's true.

Funny to see people on here respond to the pope's death by sagely denouncing the catholic church to their bluesky mutuals as if it's a risky, tough stance. "I'm not buying the woke pope stuff" Great work, Jello Biafra. What next, a truth bomb about where your parents Actually go during peekaboo?

Gosh, my guess would have been Sandymount Green!

Yeah. Been around for a while. I remember it from my own youth in Dublin:
"The guard trun him up again the wall for doing nothing."

Here live onstage. Credit: Dagmar Dufková (Bauerová)

In an exclusive extract from his new book, Whisper Aloud: Czech shoegaze between the East and the West, Miloš Hroch recalls the time Vyškov na Moravě band Here (almost) took London by storm

Flower Noise: Here & The Story of #CzechShoegaze

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This is great! I've forwarded the link to the piece to Colin Stuart. He'll be delighted with this :-)

First non-Dublin band I saw live. McGonagles, c.1991. I remember my dad being absolutely puzzled that they would name themselves after a showroom on Dorset Street. Whipping Boy opened for them. Still vividly recall walking home in the rain, dazed by the beautiful noise.

Štvanice on the Vltava heading towards Rohanské nábřezi

Štvanice on the Vltava heading towards Rohanské nábřezi.

Play Your Cards Right with Bruce Forsyth, probably.

It's a little bit chilly though. Still, a glorious morning for a stroll along the riverbank nonetheless.

Dinosaur tracks uncovered at site of Bonnie Prince Charlie’s refuge Jacobite leader was ‘sprinting in the footsteps’ of megalosaurs after escaping to the Isle of Skye in 1746

Disappointed to learn this is not the J. Mascis/Will Oldham collaboration we've all been waiting on.
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I presume this letter is by the poet, drama producer and writer Aidan Mathews. Nice anecdote.

Today someone was telling me about the domestic squalor Maggie Smith lived in, all smashed windows and broken doors, and wondering how his various wives put with it, and only afterwards did I realise they had been talking about Mark E Smith.

I'm saving the 'Crash' episode for a drive from Prague to Trieste in a few weeks. Seems normal.

As such, it is recommended not to stray from main roads, especially in rural areas.

Weird.

Crime rates in Ireland have been trending down in recent years, but there are still some areas of concern. Theft, fraud, and recorded crime increased in 2023. One other area of concern for personal safety is unexploded landmines, which remain buried in former battlefields.

Agreed. Likewise prague had a mass shooting in 2023 which affected it's stats in this index. Interesting reading, thanks.
This I found very odd:
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Ha! Sorry, but you've provided a link to a boutique investment firm's brochure. They're pulling stats from the Global Peace Index which is a different context altogether.
I'm going to leave it at that. Thanks for your time.

Ditto. I thought it was street for cigarette papers.

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No, I moved for numerous reasons: it's more affordable, better weather, transport and work. But it's startling how safe Prague is.

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