Night Pages
A songwriting project by David J

Some things
only come alive
at night.

Songs about the things we remember, imagine, feel and become when the day goes quiet.

New single · Out 22 October 2026

Night Pages

Night isn't the darkness.
It's what wakes up inside it.

The songs move between stories, memories, places, relationships, humour, anger and the quiet moments when something suddenly makes sense.

The Music

The next
page.

Artwork for Off the Deep End
NEW SINGLE · OUT 22 OCTOBER 2026NEW

Off the Deep End

A portrait of a man who walls himself off from his own street — twitching curtains, new fences, a camera on the gate, letters written late at night — until the loneliness he built is the only thing left.

“It's a strange kind of loneliness
Building walls around yourself.”

The first pages / Released
Artwork for Ghosted
FEBRUARY 2026 · DJH → NIGHT PAGES01

Ghosted

The first song put out into the world, written after frustration with recruitment agencies finally boiled over. An AI-generated demo, kept exactly as it is on purpose.

Artist change submitted via DistroKid

Listen on Spotify →
Artwork for 26 Degrees
NIGHT PAGES · LIVE02

26 Degrees

The first release under the Night Pages name — a demo and an early glimpse of the wider project.

Live under Night Pages

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Coming next / In release order
Artwork for Torn Up PagesTorn Up PagesNext · British post-punk / indie
Artwork for Cold Coffee on the SideCold Coffee on the SideQuiet / late-night
Further pages / Unreleased
Artwork for I Built My Own LaneI Built My Own LaneBlues / heartfelt / powerful
Artwork for The ThresholdThe ThresholdDark / atmospheric
Artwork for Will I Die Without LivingWill I Die Without LivingReflective / alternative
Artwork for Clovelly RainClovelly RainEmotional / atmospheric
The Stories

Every song
starts somewhere.

01

Off the Deep End

Curtains twitching down the street. A new fence rising in the rain. And the street moves on.

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02

Torn Up Pages

Words that stopped being something to carry and became songs instead.

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03

Cold Coffee on the Side

A mug by the bed. A phone face down. A room that is just a little colder.

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04

Strange Kind of Beautiful

Three in the morning. Vauxhall Road. The city has stopped performing.

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05

Old Enough to Know, Young Enough to Try

Seen the fall. Still wants to fly.

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06

I Built My Own Lane

A song about refusing to live inside somebody else's definition of where you belong.

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07

Will I Die Without Living

The question that arrives when “later” starts looking suspiciously like never.

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08

A Camel With No Name

Sometimes getting completely lost is exactly what a story needs.

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About

Songs that need
somewhere to go.

Night Pages is a songwriting project created by David J.

There isn't one Night Pages sound. The songs move between genres, voices and perspectives depending on what each story needs.

Some are loud. Some are quiet. Some are angry. Some are funny. Some are difficult to explain.

What connects them is the writing — stories about people, places, memory, loss, freedom, love, work, ageing, belonging and the strange things we notice when the world gets quiet.

How the songs are made

From Off the Deep End onwards, every Night Pages release is written by David J and fully produced, performed and sung by humans. AI tools are used only in early concept development; there is no AI-generated audio and there are no AI-generated vocals.

Ghosted is the exception, on purpose: an AI-generated demo, kept exactly as it is to show what AI can and can't do yet.

NOTE / 001

“Every song has a story.
Every story started somewhere in the night.”

— David J
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