TWO friends are teaming up for an afternoon of music and poetry coming to a Reading-based arts centre next month.
Songwriter Non Canon and poet Suzannah Evans will be visiting The Rising Sun, where there will be a selection of songs about feelings and politics, and verse on a range of themes including future anxiety, climate grief and human expansion into other galaxies.
Dubbed by the artists as “an evening of sad songs and poems delivered with good humour”, both artists grapple with some of the more melancholy aspects of life, touching on mental health, climate anxiety and political turmoil, but with an optimistic resolve and fun-filled approach to performance.
Non Canon, aka Bristol songwriter Barry Dolan, and Sheffield-based poet Suzannah 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 lyrics, regularly caught up at each other’s live performances, and Suzannah was ‘best man’ when Barry got married.
After countless evenings spent chatting in the pub about the similarities and differences between the not-so-glamorous worlds of poetry and independent music, Barry and Suzannah hatched a plan for a tour where the two art forms could overlap, with local poets and musicians completing each bill.
They will be visiting The Rising Sun on Saturday, April 22, with the show starting at 2pm.
Tickets cost £7.70, and can be bought by logging on to: https://linktr.ee/dolanthology
