Write is as Fiction is the closing song from Faithful Johannes' 2021 story album Ken & Jean.

Available on pink vinyl and the streams via https://ffm.to/kenjean

Write If As Fiction - Radio Edit

A song about Johannes's deep love of charity shop shopping. 

One of four new Faithful Johannes songs taken from Northern Tapes' NT-003 split tape with Badger, SQUARMS and Infinite Arcade available now at https://northerntape.bandcamp.com/album/nt-003

Faithful Johannes - Chazza Shop Song

Faithful Johannes's new single – Summer, Can’t Sleep – is out on Thursday July 27th. It is about the summer and being unable to sleep.  4AM sunrises, ill-fitting curtains, the smell of bins on hot days, accidently grabbing a stranger's knee on a leisure cruise.

Faithful Johannes - Summer Can't Sleep

FAITHFUL JOHANNES X NEOCIA

Sincerity rapper Faithful Johannes and producer Neocia's debut collaboration.  A childhood obsession with astronomy collides with devastating moment the 2008 moment that NASA's Ultra Deep Field image revealed graphically how terrifying big the universe is.  It really is easier not to think about it.

Word and Vocals Faithful Johannes
Music, production, mixing and mastering Neocia

Ultra Deep

TV Raised Me is the second single off of Faithful Johannes and Neocia’s forthcoming album The House at Night.

It's about the mal-nurturing power of television and the video gamification of the first Gulf War.

TV Raised Me

Nostalgia for Now Noel is Faithful Johannes's Eighth annual Christmas single.

Nostalgia For Now Noel

Someone once told Faithful Johannes that his live show was like watching a man forced to rap at gun point.  He took this as a compliment at the time, but is not so sure anymore.

He makes spoken word songs and the accompanying electronic music.

He lives in Durham City in the North East of England.

He takes his ironing board to his gigs.  It has been mistaken for a surf board.  Johannes does not surf.  He holds up large signs to help annotate his narratives or reinforce the choruses and gives out personalised notes to audience members.

In 2018 his Ghosts in My Attic, about an unsuccessful attempt to clear out his loft, was voted North East song of year.

In 2019 Johannes released his debut album Thrills & Bills on Win Big Records.

He has vowed to put out a Christmas single every year until his death.

He has received support from BBC Introducing shows in the North East and Teeside and national airplay from Tom Robinson and Gideon Coe on BBC 6 Music.  

He has played outdoor festivals, house shows and much in between on varied bills with rappers, poets, electronic artists and guitar bands.

In 2020 he has a new EP in the can and is working on a concept album.  He wrote the feel good hit of the summer, but his computer died and he lost everything.
Quotes - 
Tom Robinson, BBC 6 Music – ‘Dark, intriguing, ultimately chilling, wonderful spoken word poetry’
Louder Than War – ‘Johannes displays a skill for some brilliant rhyming couplets and detailed lyrics which unfold into modern day reflections of everyday feeling and society’
Slow Decades - 'If there is a middle of a venn diagram where the four circles are Anticon Records, Alan Bennett, Leonard Cohen and Frank Sidebottom then Faithful Johannes is it'

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