Non Canon

***Matinée show - starts at 2pm*** Non Canon, stage name of Bristol-based songwriter Barry Dolan, and 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. 20+ years later, with a couple of albums and books to their names, they hatched a plan for a joint tour after discussing the similarities and differences in the not-always-glamorous worlds of independent music and poetry. Non Canon writes sad songs about feelings, politics, and feelings about politics. He has released two albums on Xtra Mile Recordings (Frank Turner, Skinny Lister, Beans on Toast), lives in Bristol, has a cat called Monty, and can also be found making much louder noise under the name Oxygen Thief. Suzannah Evans is a Sheffield-based poet. Her second book Space Baby was published in June 2022 by Nine Arches Press and deals with themes of future anxiety, climate grief and human expansion into other galaxies. While both performers deal with some, let's be honest, depressing themes in their work, their performances are actually quite fun overall. Which is the right way round really, isn't it? Support from Zannah Kearns and PIp Summers Zannah Kearns is a copywriter in the charity sector. Her poems have appeared in journals such as Poetry Birmingham Literary Journal, The Dark Horse, Finished Creatures, Under the Radar, South, and online with Ink, Sweat & Tears and Atrium. She was an iamb poet in December 2022, and has just finished her first play, commissioned by the University of Reading?s Law Department about the Post Office Horizon scandal. She co-runs, Poets' Café, Reading, which aims to bring a diverse range of brilliant guest poets from around the UK, along with a warm and welcoming open-mic. Southampton-based singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist Pip Summers was spat out of a deep hole in the Earth in 2000, and has wandered aimless ever since. Wherever there is music and good vibes you can find Pip somewhere close by, singing her heart out as hard as she can to a small but growing crowd of appreciative listeners and friends. A DIY punk musician at heart, with a belting voice to back it up, Pip continually searches through any music she can get her grubby little mitts on, in search of flavours, textures and tools to bring back to her own writing. Through her trials and (many) errors she has developed a style of songwriting unique to her - with loud, tightly-controlled vocals, strums on her acoustic so hard people worry it?ll break, and soft words set to melodies that sing of mental health struggles, friendship and community spirit, and queer experiences.