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

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'