Long-term friends Non Canon and poet Suzannah Evans are set to tour a collaborative evening of music and poetry in April 2023.

Non Canon, aka Bristol songwriter Barry Dolan, and Sheffield-based poet Suzannah Evans have been friends since they met on their first day of university in 2001 and bonded over a shared love of Idlewild, Ben Folds Five and Less Than Jake. Since then, the pair have collaborated on...

NON CANON today returns with a haunting new single: ‘The Saying of The Seers’. Complex of arrangement and contemplative of lyric, ‘The Saying Of The Seers’ is a brooding and atmospheric addition to Non Canon catalogue fitting of the troubled times we find ourselves in. WATCH VIDEO HERE // STREAM HERE

Though written well over a year ago, its themes of isolation, routine and their impact on our...

The latest offering from his long-awaited sequel album: ‘Non Canon II’, finds the alias of Oxygen Thief’s Barry Dolan both ruminating on lost themes, while writing an epilogue to the track ‘Eponymous’; one of the many highlights of his 2016 debut. "’Self Untitled’ is a song about various ways of feeling lost; be it physically, emotionally, politically, or professionally, and looking for ways to try and find a path that...

In 2020, Xtra Mile Recordings are pleased to announce the return of: NON CANON.

Four years after his debut release for the label, Oxygen Thief’s Barry Dolan will be reviving his parallel alter-ego for a new studio release: ‘Non Canon II’ (out 15th May 2020). As a forecast of the new record in-waiting, Non Canon lays out a thought provoking opening salvo with lead single: ‘Dark Force Rising’. Watch the...