With live shows that have now reached legendary status DARTZ! are set for more dazzling dates this June with their emo tinged synth-pop buddies I Was a Cub Scout.

After spending much of 2006 on the road supporting the likes of Get Cape Wear Cape Fly, The Rumble Strips and The Research, DARTZ! kicked off 2007 supporting their good friends Hot Club De Paris before heading out on their own epic headline tour of the UK throughout February and March. The opening night of the tour was awarded KKKK by Kerrang! who described William, Henry and Philip’s set as “energetic, edgy songs, lots of hand clapping, audience singalongs” making it “a truly riotous and happy occasion.”

The band recently took their explosive live shows over to mainland Europe for a short headline tour of Spain and a couple of festival appearances in Austria - where they appeared alongside The Young Knives and The Long Blondes - and Luxembourg.

They will be continuing their busy 2007 in June after being personally requested by I Was a Cub Scout to be their special guests at the following shows:

June 2007

19 Liverpool Academy 2
20 Newcastle Academy 2 *HEADLINING*
21 Sheffield Plug
22 York Fibbers
24 Wolverhampton Little Civic
26 Leicester Charlotte
27 Norwich Arts Centre
28 Kingston New Slang
29 Tunbridge Wells The Forum
30 London Dingwalls

* DARTZ! headline Newcastle show. Ticket prices vary but are generally £7.50. Most venues doors will open at 7pm apart from Kingston (9pm) and London Dingwalls (1pm afternoon show.)

With glowing accolades from all corners of the music industry DARTZ! continue their ascent to the top with the release of their new single ‘Fantastic Apparatus/’Cold Holidays’ on 23rd April 2007 digitally and 14th May 2007 physically through Xtra Mile Recordings.

Available on limited edition 10” coloured vinyl this double a-side is backed by the brand new and previously unreleased tracks ‘Latin and Greek’ and ‘Viva la Republica’. ‘Fantastic Apparatus’ and ‘Cold Holidays’ are both taken from DARTZ! critically acclaimed debut album ‘This Is My Ship’ which got its much anticipated release in February 2007 through Xtra Mile Recordings.

With the release of ‘Fantastic Apparatus/Cold Holidays’, the third single taken from debut album ‘This Is My Ship’, and summer tour dates with I Was a Cub Scout, 2007 is set to be the year of DARTZ!

dartzisgood.co.uk
myspace.com/darts
xtramilerecordings.com

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Following on from their last, and well received, single ‘St Petersburg‘, Darts! are continuing their build up to the release of debut album ‘This Is My Ship’ on 12 February with ‘Once Twice Again’.

‘Once Twice Again‘ is a stomping number with light guitars luring in the listener into a whirl of infectious indie for three minutes. This is pure guitar pop and is sure to be a key ingredient in many a drunken sing-song because of it’s punchy chorus.

Dartz! are on tour, dates are as follows,

JANUARY

22 BIRMINGHAM Barfly*
23 BRIGHTON Pressure Point*
24 LONDON Scala*
26 MANCHESTER Night & Day*
27 LONDON XFM X-Posure All Dayer
27 LEEDS Faversham*
28 GLASGOW King Tuts*
29 LIVERPOOL Magnet*

* Supporting Hot Club De Paris

HEADLINE TOUR
FEBRUARY:

12 LONDON Borderline
13 CARDIFF Barfly
14 NEWPORT Meze
15 COVENTRY Collesium
16 OXFORD Zodiac
17 BRIDPORT Arts Centre
19 IPSWICH Ice Bar
20 SOUTHAMPTON The Joiners
21 WATFORD Baraka Bar
22 KINGSTON The Peel
24 BRISTOL Thekla
25 LEICESTER Sumo
26 NOTTINGHAM Social
27 HULL Lamp
28 NEWCASTLE Cluny

MARCH:

01 MANCHESTER Jabez Clegg
02 LANCASTER Yorkshire House
03 EDINBURGH Wee Red Bar
05 YORK Fibbers

Release Date: 22 January 2007
Label: Xtra Mile Recordings
Websites : www.dartzisgood.co.uk / www.myspace.com/darts / www.xtramilerecordings.com

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Debut album “This Is My Ship” released 12.02.07 on Xtra Mile Recordings Ltd.

Teesside trio DARTZ! release their debut album ‘This Is My Ship’ on 12th February 2007 through Xtra Mile Recordings Ltd.

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.

For a band that initially started as a one gig joke between a drummer and a guitarist who thought it’d be funny to swap instruments, the last two years haven’t exactly stuck to the script. Within 6 months of their first gig and just 9 months after Henry and Philip first picked up their new found instruments, DARTZ! played an explosive set at Manchester’s In The City event alongside iForward, Russia!, The Fratellis and The Maccabees. It wasn’t long before Steve Lamacq was singing their praises and making them his “Unsigned Band Of The Week” on BBC 6 Music whilst XFM’s new music guru John Kennedy was regularly playing their demos on his show and championing them at every available opportunity.

Much of 2006 was spent on the road with the likes of Get Cape Wear Cape Fly, The Rumble Strips, Stapleton and The Research, as well as one off dates with such luminaries as The Futureheads and 65 Days Of Static and a couple of critically acclaimed performances at the inaugural Great Escape festival in Brighton. DARTZ! kick off 2007 supporting their good friends Hot Club De Paris in January before heading out on their own headline tour in February and March.

It’s looking like being an exciting year for DARTZ! with Rock Sound Magazine putting them in their ‘Hot 100’ for 2007, Big Cheese Magazine picking ‘This Is My Ship’ as one of the ‘Big Ones of 2007’ and new music juggernaut James Jam recently proclaiming that DARTZ! are his new favourite band.

Catalogue number: XMR005CD

Format: CD and digital download

Distribution: Vital

01. Network! Network! Network!
02. A Simple Hypothetical
03. Once, twice, again!
04. Cold Holidays
05. Prego Triangolos
06. Laser Eyes
07. St. Petersburg
08. Harbour
09. Documents
10. Fantastic Apparatus
11. Teaching Me To Dance
12. The Lives Of Authors

William K.J. Anderson plays bass and sings too.
Henry J. Carden plays guitar.
Philip J. Maughan plays drums and sings a little bit too.

www.dartzisgood.co.uk

www.myspace.com/darts

www.xtramilerecordings.com

www.myspace.com/xtramilerecordings

Tour Dates:

* Supporting Hot Club De Paris

JANUARY
22 BIRMINGHAM Barfly*
23 BRIGHTON Pressure Point*
24 LONDON Scala*
26 MANCHESTER Night & Day*
27 LONDON XFM X-Posure All Dayer
27 LEEDS Faversham*
28 GLASGOW King Tuts*
29 LIVERPOOL Magnet*

HEADLINE TOUR

FEBRUARY:
12 LONDON Borderline
13 CARDIFF Barfly
14 NEWPORT Meze
15 COVENTRY Collesium
16 OXFORD Zodiac
17 BRIDPORT Arts Centre
19 IPSWICH Ice Bar
20 SOUTHAMPTON The Joiners
21 WATFORD Baraka Bar
22 KINGSTON The Peel
24 BRISTOL Thekla
25 LEICESTER Sumo
26 NOTTINGHAM Social
27 HULL Lamp
28 NEWCASTLE Cluny

MARCH:
01 MANCHESTER Jabez Clegg
02 LANCASTER Yorkshire House
03 EDINBURGH Wee Red Bar
05 YORK Fibbers

New single ‘Once, twice, again!’ is released on 29th January 2007 with ‘This Is My Ship’ following two weeks later 12th February 2007

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This album is the new departure by the ex-frontman of Million Dead. Frank has moved into a more strum-based and folky arena with a rather self obcessed line in lyrics. The new sound is like the Levellers but without the spark of crusty angst and apparently feeling quite hard done by.

This is a bit of a surprise coming from a member of the screamingly loud Million Dead. I was expecting more of a aggressive take in line with some of the more spiky antifolk acts.

Unfortunately, the album falls rather flat; both lyrically and musically. The songs are occupying a middle ground between the mundane and aspirational that can irritate with ease.

Label: Xtra Mile
Website: http://www.myspace.com/frankturner

Tracklisting

1. Real Damage
2. Vital Signs
3. Romantic Fatigue
4. Decent Cup Of Tea
5. Father’s Day
6. Worse Things Happen At Sea
7. My Kingdom For A Horse
8. Back In The Day
9. Once We Were Anarchists
10. Wisdom Teeth
11. Ladies Of London Town
12. Must Try Harder
13. Ballad Of Me And My Friends

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Debut album “This Is My Ship”(amazon.co.uk link) released 12.02.07 on Xtra Mile Recordings Ltd.

Teesside trio DARTZ! release their debut album ‘This Is My Ship’ on 12th February 2007 through Xtra Mile Recordings Ltd.

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.

For a band that initially started as a one gig joke between a drummer and a guitarist who thought it’d be funny to swap instruments, the last two years haven’t exactly stuck to the script. Within 6 months of their first gig and just 9 months after Henry and Philip first picked up their new found instruments, DARTZ! played an explosive set at Manchester’s In The City event alongside iForward, Russia!, The Fratellis and The Maccabees. It wasn’t long before Steve Lamacq was singing their praises and making them his “Unsigned Band Of The Week” on BBC 6 Music whilst XFM’s new music guru John Kennedy was regularly playing their demos on his show and championing them at every available opportunity.

Much of 2006 was spent on the road with the likes of Get Cape Wear Cape Fly, The Rumble Strips, Stapleton and The Research, as well as one off dates with such luminaries as The Futureheads and 65 Days Of Static and a couple of critically acclaimed performances at the inaugural Great Escape festival in Brighton. DARTZ! kick off 2007 supporting their good friends Hot Club De Paris in January before heading out on their own headline tour in February and March.

It’s looking like being an exciting year for DARTZ! with Rock Sound Magazine putting them in their ‘Hot 100’ for 2007, Big Cheese Magazine picking ‘This Is My Ship’ as one of the ‘Big Ones of 2007’ and new music juggernaut James Jam recently proclaiming that DARTZ! are his new favourite band.

New single ‘Once, twice, again!’ is released on 29th January 2007 with ‘This Is My Ship’ following two weeks later 12th February 2007.

Catalogue number: XMR005CD
Format: CD and digital download
Distribution: Vital

01. Network! Network! Network!
02. A Simple Hypothetical
03. Once, twice, again!
04. Cold Holidays
05. Prego Triangolos
06. Laser Eyes
07. St. Petersburg
08. Harbour
09. Documents
10. Fantastic Apparatus
11. Teaching Me To Dance
12. The Lives Of Authors

William K.J. Anderson plays bass and sings too.
Henry J. Carden plays guitar.
Philip J. Maughan plays drums and sings a little bit too.

www.dartzisgood.co.uk
www.myspace.com/darts
www.xtramilerecordings.com

Tour Dates:
* Supporting Hot Club De Paris
JANUARY 22 BIRMINGHAM Barfly*
23 BRIGHTON Pressure Point*
24 LONDON Scala*
26 MANCHESTER Night & Day*
27 LONDON XFM X-Posure All Dayer
27 LEEDS Faversham*
28 GLASGOW King Tuts*
29 LIVERPOOL Magnet*

HEADLINE TOURFEBRUARY:
12 LONDON Borderline
13 CARDIFF Barfly
14 NEWPORT Meze
15 COVENTRY Collesium
16 OXFORD Zodiac
17 BRIDPORT Arts Centre
19 IPSWICH Ice Bar
20 SOUTHAMPTON The Joiners
21 WATFORD Baraka Bar
22 KINGSTON The Peel
24 BRISTOL Thekla25 LEICESTER Sumo
26 NOTTINGHAM Social
27 HULL Lamp
28 NEWCASTLE Cluny

MARCH:
01 MANCHESTER Jabez Clegg
02 LANCASTER Yorkshire House
03 EDINBURGH Wee Red Bar
05 YORK Fibbers

“It’s a short, sharp, smart and elegant punk rock party; a Northern explosion of dancing drummers and concerned cowbells. We enter expecting to be slightly amused and leave feeling joyously entertained
…I’m not the only person in awe.” Drowned In Sound

“DARTZ! discordant neo-pop has an exuberance and angularity that is mesmerising to the point of being addictive. Impossible not to like.” Big Cheese

“A charming live band… Sublime, intricate songs and mesmerising stage presence.” Rock Sound

“Like Talking Heads on speed. DIY pop at its best.” Artrocker

“Super-smart, magnificently melodic and overtly original pop.” Music Week

“Our new favourite band… this week.” Steve Lamacq on BBC 6 Music

“They flavour their dance oriented spikiness with enough pop to put them in the charts. Let them teach you to dance now.”  John Kennedy (XFM) in Spill

“It doesn’t get much better than this. 5/5” Rock Midgets

“Their unique mix of screamo tunes and splintering guitars form the perfect post-rock dancefloor fusion… any resistance from the crowd is utterly futile.” NME

“Good enough to make DARTZ! look like they are already
chipping away at Franz Ferdinand’s pop throne. 4/5” Gig Wise

“Combining enigmatic new-wave beats and addictively catchy guitar hooks, keep an eye out for their explosive live shows.” Rock Sound (‘Hot 100’ 2007 feature)

“I love this band like the little brothers I never had. It’s very nice to have a band that have such a recognizable sound. I rather love them…” Marsha Shandur (XFM) Sureshot ROTW

“Class, utterly crotch-thrustingly brilliant.” James Jam (NME)

“We’ve been on tour for so long it’s hard to keep up, but I saw DARTZ! the other week. I was very impressed.” Paul Smith (Maximo Park)

“Single of the month! 9/10” Rock Sound
(Guest reviewer Sam Duckworth)

“Skittering pop pitched somewhere between Futureheads and the best of DC’s early Eighties go-go/hardcore crossover scene. The great Northeast renaissance continues.” Plan B

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The single ‘Vital Signs’ will be available for free on Christmas Day. All fans have to do is email santa@frank-turner.com stating their wish and Santa will send them an email on Christmas Day with details of where to download the track.

From Frank-Turner.com “Well, it’s about time that I started naffing it up with the whole “Christmas is coming” thing, right? I mean, we’re done with Halloween now (and I made such an effort for that). Seriously though, I do have an xmas present in the works for the human race, and it’s going to blow all of your tiny little minds. Let me explain…

So the album is very nearly ready for manufacture - just sorting out the last of the artwork, a few legal bits n bobs, and we’ll be there. It’s scheduled for release on 15th January 2007, a day I’m sure you’ve all got blocked out in your diaries already. Preceding the album is a download single, called Vital Signs. There’s a video for this which will be up on the site soon enough. Basically it’s going to be a free download on xmas day (plus a b-side, a new unreleased track called ‘Heartless Bastard Motherfucker’).“

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