Oxygen Thief - Re-Release their first mini album!!!

December 2023

Album Release

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Marking the tenth anniversary of the band’s first mini album ‘Accidents Do Not Happen, They Are Caused’. Oxygen Thief have also released a special instrumental re-issue this Winter of ‘Instrumentals do not Happen, they are Caused’, which is streaming everywhere now (via Xtra Mile Recordings) A decade on from the album’s initial release, Oxygen Thief frontman Barry Dolan has unearthed the instrumental recordings of each track and will be making them available on streaming services and on a pay-what-you-want basis via Bandcamp this December. After years of touring and recording his own brand of acoustic riffery as a solo effort, Oxygen Thief turned full band in 2013 and teamed up with Xtra Mile Recordings to release a re-worked mini album,

‘Accidents do not happen, they are Caused’. As the record’s 10th anniversary approached, Barry stumbled across a folder of instrumentals and decided releasing them would be an interesting way to mark the occasion. He explains: Giving a new perspective to the album’s original songs, ‘Instrumentals do not happen, they are Caused’ strips back the vocals to draw focus to the musicianship and features subtly altered titles for each track. Find the full tracklist below. Hailing from Bristol, Barry Dolan has been a prominent figure on the UK music scene since emerging with his Oxygen Thief project in 2006.

Over the years he has supported the likes of Frank Turner, Mongol Horde, InMe, Johnny Foreigner, Chris T-T and more, and has established a solid fanbase of his own. A talented songwriter and performer, Dolan has been championed by the likes of BBC Introducing and BBC 6 Music’s Tom Robinson. He signed with the Xtra Mile Recordings label in 2012 for Oxygen Thief’s first mini album ‘Accidents do not happen, they are Caused’ launching a career that would see the band play festivals such as 2000Trees, Download and T In The Park. He has since released a string of EPs and albums on the label, including solo records ‘Non Canon I’ and ‘Non Canon II’ (2020), which marked a more traditional and acoustic based outlet for the singer.