This Is My Ship

'this is my ship' is the debut album from teesside trio dartz!. recorded with mark williams (fightstar, yourcodenameis:milo, million dead) at criterion studios in the legendary battery studios complex in north west london, 'this is my ship' documents the sounds dartz! have been creating since their first gig back in march 2005. from 'teaching me to dance', the first song they wrote together as a band, to more recent offerings such as 'st. petersburg', the album offers up twelve energetic, intelligent and exuberant tracks showcasing william, henry and philip's ability to produce genuine, clever and exciting pop. if you ask dartz! about their influences, philip is likely to start referencing authors such as hemingway and dostoevsky or visits to new york city and prague. it'd certainly be fair to say that dartz! are influenced equally as much by the places they've visited, the books they've read and their life experiences as by the music that they listen to. guitarist henry isn't quite as literacy orientated as william and philip, in fact, 'our band could be your life' by michael azerrad is pretty much the only book he's read from start to finish for quite some time. however, neither his nor his band mates love of the american indie underground ends in 1991 like the aforementioned book, with washington dc greats like q and not u, the dismemberment plan and faraquet all being relevant sources of inspiration. cd only on xtra mile recordings.