I like the live sound John and terrific guitar as always . That funking rhythm is ace! Terrific literate rock song and it’s got a strong melody too . Good vocal and band feel.

Hey John,
We’ve been listening to your tracks and really dig your sound. Just curious would you love to do live performances and maybe even go on tour? We’d be excited to explore how we could help make that happen.

Stuff I like

You Never Know is a funked up punk-a-tude bluesy swinging new indie rock song about the fact that You Never Know. Pulling from funk, blues, Americana, and rock, with a punk attitude and lyrics about state of the modern world peppered with a healthy dose of skepticism and justifiable cynicism about the absolute certainty so many people claim to possess. This song will make you want to dance while you call out the BS. 

You never know! 
You think you know
But you don’t know
I learned along time ago 
That ya never know!

You think you know
But you don’t know!
You say its true
Because you say so
But I ain’t buying what your selling yo!
  
Take a look back through history
Only one thing’s a certainty
The future will remain a mystery
Something we’ll never know

Some people turn to the good book
Some people give their crystal ball a look
No matter what you try and do though
Fact is, you never know!

If you went and had a look
Read every word in every book! 
The record clearly shows
That ya never know!

You never know!
You think you know
But you don’t know
I learned a long time ago 
That ya never know 

Some people turn to the good book
Some people give their crystal ball a look
No matter what they try and do though
Fact is, you never know!

If you went and had a look
Read every word in every book! 
The record clearly shows
That ya never know!

You think you know
But you don’t know
You say its true
Because you say so
But I ain’t buying what your selling yo
Cuz ya never know

Take a look back at history
Only one thing’s a certainty
The future will remain a mystery
Something we’ll never know!

You think you know
But you don’t know
I ain’t buying what your selling yo
I learned along time ago 
That you never know.

You Never Know

You Never Know - Defiantbutterfly

"This Morning" [05.05.25] (Jack Miller)
J Dulva and Counting Coup
(c) 2025 Cenote Music

This Morning [05.05.25]

Me, acoustic guitar & phone app, just reflecting on the haunting lyrics here of "All Apologies" that speak to certain people among me who wish I ode them an apology while it's reverse in truth. I'll never forget when many years ago the lyric "aqua seafoam shame" popped in my head, started my car & heard that same lyric on the radio.

Colliding Clouds/ an "All Apologies" reflection

🚨 NEW DROP: Blue Heart in a Red Land 🚨
Slide-guitar thunder ⚡ + porch-light blues 🌙 + one cowboy begging “Bring my CNN back!”—all packed into a 3-minute cry from the middle of MAGA country. If Jason Isbell & Tom Petty crashed a political rally, this is the after-party jam.

▶️ Press play—then comment: Which lyric cuts deepest?
#CountryBlues #AltCountry #RedStateBlues #ViralTrack

Blue Heart in a Red Land

Hi, Please read my bio! New piece I made - any comments, feedback want to discuss anything at all - collaboration etc always love to connect with new artists... Also

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Final Flight.mp3

The Shoemaker's Wife

Woman in Blue

The Alchemist

Hallucinophonics - "White Eyes"
From the shadowed corridors of consciousness comes our latest transmission—a haunting exploration of the liminal spaces between life and death, reality and reverie.
"White Eyes" ventures into the darker chambers of the psyche, where ancient mansions hold memories that refuse to fade and spirits walk through candle-lit halls seeking what was lost. This track weaves together vintage Hammond organ, ethereal guitars, and atmospheric soundscapes to create a sonic séance that bridges the earthly and the eternal.
Crafted with analog warmth and cosmic intention, the song builds from whispered beginnings to transcendent climax, embodying our mission to articulate the ineffable through sound.
Experience the extraordinary by closing your eyes and letting the phantom guide you through the hall where time grows pale.
🕯️ Launching September 2025
🌌 Where the cerebral meets the celestial
Produced with vintage instruments and modern vision
Mixed in analog warmth
Mastered for cosmic transmission

White Eyes

“Messiah of Shrinking Shores” unfolds like a sorrowful parable — the story of a soul who gave everything, only to be abandoned by both Heaven and Earth. Written in poetic form years ago, the lyrics speak in third person, echoing the voice of someone who once carried the burdens of others, now discarded, worn down, and left with nothing but silence. “The ashtray of God” — a chilling metaphor for spiritual obsolescence — captures the depth of his disillusionment, culminating in the heartbreaking surrender: “Let me sink into the flood.”

This song gives voice to that universal moment when we feel used up, overlooked, and forgotten — when the world no longer sees us as valuable, only convenient. Hungarian vocalist Fati Urbán lends her angelic, haunting tone to these emotions, adding an ethereal fragility that elevates the pain into something strangely beautiful.

Though the song carries the atmosphere of gothic and doom influences, it never settles into one mood. Progressive metal elements weave through its structure — the intro and outro riffs pulse with complex time signatures, and the chorus rides on staccato rhythms that resist collapse. It's both a lament and a protest; a farewell and a final cry for meaning.

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MESSIAH OF SHRINKING SHORES

He clung with nails of wood so tight,
Scratching the fresco-black of night.
Obscured he wrote a gospel’s rhyme, 
Ashtray of God, clandestine grime.

All that he saw, all fails did stay,
No skyey dew would fall his way,
breathing desert dust-eating life,
rotten finger-flesh, he played a strife.

If he was saved, he tore his crown,
blood-stained tears fall, like storm pour down,
showing his fake gloriole,
he will baptize you, he will bury.

And as he climbed the western sky,
the stars within themselves did die,
"Embrace me now, and take my blood” 
said “Let me sink into the flood."

Horror Sacri

Messiah of Shrinking Shores

Transcending ourselves from the physical to the spiritual realm. A state of mind where our material belongings do not hold much value and our consciousness reaches a point of a more heightened awareness. A consciousness free of all pain and suffering. It's a state of mind void from all the troubles of our blue planet, an awareness full of peace and joy.
Special thanks to Haider Mahmood for the cover picture.

On A Higher Realm

Rock song performed live by Beats Working, written, arranged & produced by John Hardman
Beats Working are: John Hardman - Lead vocals, lead guitar
                                 Chris Glover - Drums
                                 Lynn John Sheppard - Bass/vocals
                                 Dave Rea - Rhythm guitar/vocals
(c)(p) Swamp Music UK & Swamp Records UK for all territories                

Need To Cry live - Beats Working

Remaster 2025 of original song on Cooked Oxide album by John Hardman
John Hardman - vocals, guitars, keys - arrangement & production
(c)(p) 2025 Swamp Music UK & Swamp Records UK for all territories.

Magic Moments

Magic Moments (2025 remaster)

🔥 "Seduce and Confuse" is an intense and disturbing song, blending dark rock, grunge, and emotional atmospheres. A story of obsession, desire, and pain: seduction that becomes addiction, love that turns into torment.

💀 Raw and scratchy female vocals, dark guitars, and a grunge soul that leaves no escape.

If you find yourself in this mood, leave me a comment and share 🖤

Produced by EileenNoise
Singer Sophie 

Listen to my other songs on Spotify & YouTube → 
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[Verse]
She'll sing him lullabies
He won't sleep
And she'll give him butterflies
In his jeans

[Chorus]
She'll seduce him
Then confuse him
But she won't ever lose him

[Verse 2]
And when the morning comes
She'll be gone
And when he finds someone
She'll still haunt

[Chorus]
She'll seduce him
Then confuse him
But she won't ever lose him
She'll seduce him
Then confuse him
But she won't ever lose him

Seduce and confuse

A Mime

An ethereal, cosmic-inspired track blending dreamlike vocals and ambient soundscapes — “Children of a Thousand Skies” explores our connection to the universe and the infinite within.

[Verse 1] 
I hear the stars breathe whispering in code 
The sky folds in the night drags me within 
The sun bleeds fire across the solar veins 
I drink its light I think in its name 

[Pre-Chorus] 
Every shadow every flame 
Carries a mind I know your name 
Threads of thought I’ve never known 
Memories drift from future to past 

[Chorus] 
We are the children of a thousand skies 
Woven into galaxies where silence cries 
Parent stars, mother planets guide me through
I am awake in the mind of you 

[Verse 2] 
Planets hum beneath a silvered moon 
Dark oceans rise the void unfurls 
Clouds of Saturn spin in silent hymn 
I trace the edge where the light grows dim 

[Pre-Chorus] 
Whispers hum like broken glass 
Every thought is a voice I hear 

[Chorus] 
We are echoes of the sun, reborn 
In the darkness where light is torn 
Parent worlds cradle all we do 
I am alive in the mind of you 

[Bridge] 
Black holes swallow but I remain 
Electric veins run through my brain 
Threads of being fragile, true 
Bound in the orbit of you 

[Chorus] 
We are the children of a thousand skies 
Our hearts reflect where the universe lies 
Parent stars, mother planets guide me through 
I am awake in the mind of you 

[Outro] 
I hear the stars breathe whispering in code 
Echoes… echoes… alive in you...

Children Of A Thousand Skies

Singer songwriter from the Heart of England with a box full of old and new songs on a mission to understand the art of recording and mixing. Most started life on my trusty Martin acoustic and have been played live but never been given the luxury of being recorded. I suspect am gonna be at this for quite a while!

JOHN HARDMAN - singer, songwriter, guitars, keys, producer 
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Need To Cry live - Beats Working

John Hardman - musician, writer, producer

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