From Norse long ships to Elizabethan galleons, the pictoral histroy of humanity's progress on traveling across the sea is a versatile metaphor, employed here in a musical context, by The Book of Ships, showing how new principles of navigation have been used to improve upon the basic fundamentals of song building.

To be a successful illustrator requires great imagination. The work not only has to be good, but composed within an interesting context, to capture the imagination of both musical and nautical buffs alike.

With a fleet of exciting new songs, and the wind in their sails, The Book of Ships, will make their virgin voyage this Friday 2 November, at The Cambridge, Newcastle. So don't miss the, er, boat!