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The Ting Tings are an English
indie pop
Indie pop (also typeset as indie-pop or indiepop) is a music genre and subculture that combines guitar pop with DIY ethic in opposition to the style and tone of mainstream pop music. It originated from British post-punk in the late 1970s and sub ...
duo from
Salford
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,
Greater Manchester
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formed in 2007. The band consists of
Katie White
Katie Rebecca White (born 18 January 1983) is an English musician and member of the pop duo The Ting Tings. After some success with a girl group punk trio TKO, which supported Steps and Atomic Kitten, her father David White brought in Jules De M ...
(vocals, guitar, bass drums, bass guitar, cowbells) and
Jules De Martino
Julian "Jules" De Martino (born 16 July 1967) is an English musician and a member of the pop duo The Ting Tings.
Early life
De Martino was born in West Ham, the son of Northern Irish mother, Rosemary (née Middleton), and Italian father, Benito ...
(drums, lead guitar, bass guitar, keyboards, vocals).
The duo's debut studio album, ''
We Started Nothing
''We Started Nothing'' is the debut studio album by English indie pop duo The Ting Tings. It was released on 16 May 2008 by Columbia Records. The US edition has a different cover image in several background colours. The album was also released ...
'', was released in 2008 by
Columbia Records
Columbia Records is an American record label owned by Sony Music, Sony Music Entertainment, a subsidiary of Sony Corporation of America, the North American division of Japanese Conglomerate (company), conglomerate Sony. It was founded on Janua ...
to positive reviews and commercial success, peaking at number one on the
UK Albums Chart
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["World Album Charts"](_blank)
aCharts.us. Retrieved 10 June 2008. and number 78 on the US
''Billboard'' 200. It spawned four singles, including "
That's Not My Name
"That's Not My Name" is the debut single of British musical duo the Ting Tings. The song was originally released as a double A-side with "Great DJ" by independent record label Switchflicker Records on 28 May 2007. After heavy promotion from B ...
", which topped the
UK Singles Chart
The UK Singles Chart (currently titled Official Singles Chart, with the upper section more commonly known as the Official UK Top 40) is compiled by the Official Charts Company (OCC), on behalf of the British record industry, listing the top-s ...
in May 2008 and reached number 39 on the US
''Billboard'' Hot 100; “
Shut Up and Let Me Go
"Shut Up and Let Me Go" is the fourth single from English musical duo the Ting Tings' debut studio album, ''We Started Nothing'' (2008). The song was released in the United Kingdom on 21 July 2008, and was the follow-up to the number one hit sin ...
”, which earned them a
MTV Video Music Award
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. They received two
Brit Award
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nominations, including for
British Album of the Year and a nomination for the
Grammy Award for Best New Artist
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in 2010.
Their second studio album, ''
Sounds from Nowheresville
''Sounds from Nowheresville'' is the second studio album by English indie pop duo The Ting Tings, released on 24 February 2012 by Columbia Records. It was by preceded the lead single " Hang It Up", which was released on 27 December 2011. Althoug ...
'', was released in February 2012, with the lead single "
Hang It Up" released on 16 January 2012. Their third studio album, ''
Super Critical
''Super Critical'' is the third studio album by English indie pop duo The Ting Tings, released on 24 October 2014 by Finca Records. "Wrong Club" was released as the lead single from the album on 15 August 2014, followed by "Do It Again" on 22 Sep ...
'', was released in October 2014. Their fourth studio album, ''The Black Light'', was released in October 2018.
Career
Background and formation
Katie White started her music career as a school-time hobby in a
punk
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Genres, subculture, and related aspects
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* Punk subculture, a subculture associated with punk rock, or aspects of the subculture s ...
trio called TKO—short for Technical Knock Out—with two friends from Lowton School, Marion Grethe Seaman and Emma Lally. The band had minimal success, once sharing the same stage as the bands
Steps and
Atomic Kitten
Atomic Kitten is an English girl group formed in Liverpool in 1998, whose current members are Liz McClarnon, Jenny Frost and Natasha Hamilton. The group was founded by Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark (OMD) members Andy McCluskey and Stuart K ...
.
While De Martino was in Manchester, the pair bumped into each other and discovered they had a mutual love of
Portishead. De Martino relocated to Islington Mill Studios (the Mill) in the
Salford, Greater Manchester
Salford () is a city and the largest settlement in the City of Salford metropolitan borough in Greater Manchester, England. In 2011, Salford had a population of 103,886. It is also the second and only other city in the metropolitan county aft ...
area.
The pair, along with friend Simon Templeman, went on to form the Portishead-influenced trio Dear Eskiimo, who signed to
Mercury Records
Mercury Records is an American record label owned by Universal Music Group. It had significant success as an independent operation in the 1940s and 1950s. Smash Records and Fontana Records were sub labels of Mercury. In the United States, it is ...
. However, due to a change of directors and managers, the management style of the record label caused them to split.
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Manchester Evening News – 8 June 2007 The experience left White and De Martino with a distrust of the music industry.
White was a barmaid at the Mill while De Martino produced tracks for various artists therein. The pair developed their sound from influences of performers at the Mill, and were inspired to form their own group, "The Ting Tings". "Ting Ting" was the name of a Chinese colleague of White at a shop, who told her that it sounded like the pronunciation of "
bandstand
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" in
Mandarin
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Language
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** Standard Chinese or Modern Standard Mandarin, the official language of China
** Taiwanese Mandarin, Stand ...
(
亭).
The band researched the name and found it also meant the "sound of innovation on an open mind".
Having created three songs, the band's first gig was a free-beer invite all at the Mill in their rented dwelling called "the Engine House". Subsequent gigs were funded on donations, and after their third gig they were name-checked on
XFM.
The Islington Mill gigs ended up as some of the most sought-after tickets on the Manchester party scene with various
A&R reps and record producers, such as
Rick Rubin
Frederick Jay Rubin (; born March 10, 1963) is an American record producer. He is the co-founder (alongside Russell Simmons) of Def Jam Recordings, founder of American Recordings, and former co-president of Columbia Records.
Rubin helped popula ...
, asking for tickets.
Exposure
Their first double-A single "
That's Not My Name
"That's Not My Name" is the debut single of British musical duo the Ting Tings. The song was originally released as a double A-side with "Great DJ" by independent record label Switchflicker Records on 28 May 2007. After heavy promotion from B ...
/
Great DJ
"Great DJ" is the second single by English indie pop band the Ting Tings. Vocalist Katie White states that the song was written by "playing a D chord on the guitar for hours, because that's all I could play. And then I put my finger on the wrong ...
" was jointly released by the band and a local label, Switchflicker Records. With their second single "
Fruit Machine
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", they were on heavy rotation on British radio, including
BBC 6 Music and others. DJ
Marc Riley
Marc Riley (born 10 July 1961 in Manchester) is an English radio DJ, alternative rock critic, musician, and former music businessman. He currently presents on BBC Radio 6 Music.
Formerly a member of the Fall, he co-owned a record label, In-Ta ...
was the first to have them in session on 6 Music and the first to play their record on the station. "Fruit Machine" was a released as limited-edition, 500-only, seven-inch single on Legendre Starkie Records (the band's own label), which was only available at the group's gigs at Islington Mill in
Salford
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, Electrowerkz in
Islington
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, Berlin, Germany and at
Glasslands in
Brooklyn
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, New York City.
They had a notable performance at the
Glastonbury Festival
Glastonbury Festival (formally Glastonbury Festival of Contemporary Performing Arts and known colloquially as Glasto) is a five-day festival of contemporary performing arts that takes place in Pilton, Somerset, England. In addition to contemp ...
in 2007, and after an October 2007 tour of universities in the UK with
Reverend and the Makers, they signed to
Columbia Records
Columbia Records is an American record label owned by Sony Music, Sony Music Entertainment, a subsidiary of Sony Corporation of America, the North American division of Japanese Conglomerate (company), conglomerate Sony. It was founded on Janua ...
. On 14 December 2007, they appeared on ''
Later with Jools Holland''. In May 2008, the band credited ''
BBC Introducing
BBC Music ''Introducing'' is BBC Radio's platform supporting unsigned, undiscovered, and under-the-radar UK music talent. It gives artists the opportunity to be played on Local BBC Radio and nationally on BBC Radio 1, 1Xtra, Radio 2, Radio 3, 6 ...
'' for giving them their 'life changing' break after the show spotted the band and put them forward for inclusion in the Glastonbury running order.
In January 2008, they were voted third in the annual BBC 6 Music poll of industry experts ''Sound of 2008'', for acts to emerge in the coming year.
In February 2008, they were the opening slot act on the 2008
Shockwaves NME Awards Tour
''New Musical Express'' (''NME'') is a British music, film, gaming, and culture website and brand. Founded as a newspaper in 1952, with the publication being referred to as a 'rock inkie', the NME would become a magazine that ended up as a f ...
, performing with
The Cribs
The Cribs are a British indie rock band originally from Wakefield, West Yorkshire, that formed in 2001. The band consists of twins Gary and Ryan Jarman and their younger brother Ross Jarman. They were subsequently joined by ex-The Smiths guit ...
,
Joe Lean And The Jing Jang Jong
Joe Lean & the Jing Jang Jong were an English indie rock band based in London. Although the band attracted considerable press attention following the 2007 release of their debut single "Lucio Starts Fires" they failed to capitalise on this, and ...
, and
Does It Offend You, Yeah?
Does It Offend You, Yeah? are a British dance-punk band from Reading, Berkshire. They played what was to be their final show on 12 December 2015 at the Electric Ballroom, Camden Town. In September 2021, they announced a new album, titled ''We ...
. In conjunction with ''
NME
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'' and
HMV
Sunrise Records and Entertainment, trading as HMV (for His Master's Voice), is a British music and entertainment retailer, currently operating exclusively in the United Kingdom.
The first HMV-branded store was opened by the Gramophone Company ...
, the band contributed a
demo
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Music and film
*Demo (music), a song typically recorded for reference rather than release
* ''Demo'' (Behind Crimson Eyes), a 2004 recording by the band Behind Crimson Eyes
* ''Demo'' (Deafhea ...
version of "
Great DJ
"Great DJ" is the second single by English indie pop band the Ting Tings. Vocalist Katie White states that the song was written by "playing a D chord on the guitar for hours, because that's all I could play. And then I put my finger on the wrong ...
" to a limited-audience, 5,000-copies-only, 10" vinyl release of all the artists on the NME Awards Tour. In late March 2008, The Ting Tings joined with
Alphabeat
Alphabeat were a Danish pop band from Silkeborg, fronted by singers Stine Bramsen and Anders Stig Gehrt Nielsen. Their single " Fascination" was a major hit in Denmark during the summer of 2007, as well as the United Kingdom in 2008. Follow-up ...
and
The Fratellis
The Fratellis are a Scottish rock
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* Rock (geology), a naturally occurring solid aggregate of minerals or mineraloids
* Rock music, a genre of popular music
Rock or Rocks may also refer to:
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...
to play as part of the MTV Spanking New Music Tour, at a gig held at the
Islington Academy
The O2 Academy Islington, formerly known as the Carling Academy Islington, is an indoor music venue situated in the N1 Shopping Centre accessible via Upper Street and Liverpool Road, in the London Borough of Islington. It is run by the Academy ...
in
London
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.
2008–2009: ''We Started Nothing''
The first single released on Columbia was "Great DJ", which received considerable airplay on
BBC Radio 1
BBC Radio 1 is a British national radio station owned and operated by the BBC. It specialises in modern popular music and current chart hits throughout the day. The station provides alternative genres at night, including electronica, dance, ...
and
XFM in the UK and praise from magazines such as ''NME''. "Great DJ" reached top 40 on the
UK Singles Chart
The UK Singles Chart (currently titled Official Singles Chart, with the upper section more commonly known as the Official UK Top 40) is compiled by the Official Charts Company (OCC), on behalf of the British record industry, listing the top-s ...
. The band's debut album, ''
We Started Nothing
''We Started Nothing'' is the debut studio album by English indie pop duo The Ting Tings. It was released on 16 May 2008 by Columbia Records. The US edition has a different cover image in several background colours. The album was also released ...
'', was released in May 2008 and entered the
UK Albums Chart
The Official Albums Chart is a list of albums ranked by physical and digital sales and (from March 2015) audio streaming in the United Kingdom. It was published for the first time on 22 July 1956 and is compiled every week by the Official Charts C ...
at number one, following the single "
That's Not My Name
"That's Not My Name" is the debut single of British musical duo the Ting Tings. The song was originally released as a double A-side with "Great DJ" by independent record label Switchflicker Records on 28 May 2007. After heavy promotion from B ...
", which topped the singles chart. Subsequent singles were "
Shut Up and Let Me Go
"Shut Up and Let Me Go" is the fourth single from English musical duo the Ting Tings' debut studio album, ''We Started Nothing'' (2008). The song was released in the United Kingdom on 21 July 2008, and was the follow-up to the number one hit sin ...
", which peaked at number six, "
Be the One" (number 28) and "
We Walk" (number 58). ''We Started Nothing'' won an
Ivor Novello Award
The Ivor Novello Awards, named after the entertainer Ivor Novello, are awards for songwriting and composing. They have been presented annually in London by the Ivors Academy (formerly the BASCA) since 1956, and over 1,000 statuettes have been a ...
for best album in May 2009. The Ting Tings recorded a cover version of
Altered Images
Altered Images are a Scottish new wave/post-punk band who found success in the early 1980s. Fronted by singer Clare Grogan, the group branched into mainstream pop music, having six UK top-40 hit singles and three top-30 albums from 1981 to 19 ...
' "
Happy Birthday" for the children's show ''Yo Gabba Gabba''.
In May 2008, the band performed a live set on the in New Music We Trust stage at
Radio 1's Big Weekend
BBC Radio 1's Big Weekend (R1BW) (previously known as One Big Weekend, for 2012 as Radio 1's Hackney Weekend, and for 2018 as BBC Music's Biggest Weekend) is a British music festival run by the BBC's radio station. It is held once a year, in a ...
in
Maidstone
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,
Kent
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, which was made available by the
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's online video player application
iPlayer
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. The Ting Tings performed at the
iTunes
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Live London Festival in the
KOKO nightclub in July 2008; the performance was released as a
downloadable
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EP in the
iTunes Store
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under the title ''iTunes Live: London Festival '08''. In December 2008, they (along with numerous other singers and bands) performed on
Jools Holland
Julian Miles Holland, (born 24 January 1958) is an English pianist, bandleader, singer, composer and television presenter. He was an original member of the band Squeeze and has worked with many artists including Jayne County, Sting, Eric C ...
's ''
Hootenanny
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Etymology Placeholder
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'' show on
BBC2
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. The band toured Australia and New Zealand in early 2009 as part of the
Big Day Out
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Festival. They also toured in Singapore as part of that festival's night counterpart, Big Night Out.
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Changi Airport Media- 15 April 2009 In June 2009, they returned to the
Glastonbury Festival
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, playing the Other stage on Friday night, and appeared at the
Isle of Wight Festival
The Isle of Wight Festival is a British music festival which takes place annually in Newport on the Isle of Wight, England. It was originally a counterculture event held from 1968 to 1970.
The 1970 event was by far the largest of these early ...
.
In the United States, the single "Shut Up and Let Me Go" appeared in an Apple
iPod
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commercial in late April 2008, helping the song peak at number 55 on the
''Billboard'' Hot 100.
Tracks from the album were featured in various television shows, films and advertisements. The Ting Tings were one of four performers who played small interludes consisting of remixes of past hits throughout the
2008 MTV Video Music Awards, including a section from "Shut Up and Let Me Go" with
Blink-182
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drummer
Travis Barker
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and
DJ AM
Adam Michael Goldstein (March 30, 1973 – August 28, 2009), known professionally as DJ AM, was an American disc jockey (DJ). Born in Philadelphia, Goldstein became interested in deejaying as a child after watching Herbie Hancock perform his 1 ...
. They also won the award for Best UK Video for their single "Shut Up and Let Me Go". Columbia Records announced the U.S. release of the single "That's Not My Name" for January 2009, followed by a March/April U.S. concert tour. The duo also toured the country as a support act for
Pink
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on her
Funhouse Tour
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. In December 2009, the duo was nominated for Best New Artist at the
52nd Grammy Awards
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. The Ting Tings appeared as the musical guests on ''
Saturday Night Live
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'' on the 16 January 2010 episode, hosted by
Sigourney Weaver
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.
2010–2012: ''Sounds from Nowheresville''
The duo began writing their second album in
Paris
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, France.
The original incarnation of the album was recorded over a period of eight months in the basement of a former jazz club in the
Friedrichshain
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area of
Berlin
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, Germany.
It was described by ''
Clash'' writer April Welsh in 2010 as "an album glistening with polished pop perfection. Ranging from acoustic folk to bangin' electro, R‘n’B and, of course, rock and roll."
The lead single, "
Hands
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" (the first track they wrote for the album), was released in October 2010.
It was mixed by
Calvin Harris
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His debut studio album, ''I Created Disco'', was released in June ...
and written by the duo themselves. The single debuted at number 29 on the
UK Singles Chart
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, marking the duo's fifth top 40 single; it also topped the ''Billboard'' dance chart in the US.
The Ting Tings later scrapped the majority of the material from the Berlin sessions against the wishes of their label, with White explaining: "We were in Berlin where there is a great electro scene with Sian Hogan, and so we made songs like that, but quickly realised that everything on the radio was
Euro-pop
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shite. We didn't want our record to be tarnished with that brush". De Martino added that they were angry the single "Hands" was promoted on BBC Radio 1, but had been intended by the band as "an underground, white label-only release". The band relocated to Spain, where they found influence in the music of the
Beastie Boys
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,
Spice Girls
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and
TLC
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** TLC (Asia), an A ...
. They performed new material from the album in July 2011 at DCode Festival in Madrid.
The video for the single "Hang It Up" premiered on YouTube in October 2011, followed by a video for the song "Silence" (remixed by Australian electro-house duo
Bag Raiders
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) in November 2011. The album's third single, "Soul Killing", premiered on the internet in early February 2012; a video was filmed but never released. The album, ''
Sounds from Nowheresville
''Sounds from Nowheresville'' is the second studio album by English indie pop duo The Ting Tings, released on 24 February 2012 by Columbia Records. It was by preceded the lead single " Hang It Up", which was released on 27 December 2011. Althoug ...
'', was released in the same month and reached number 24 on the
UK Albums Chart
The Official Albums Chart is a list of albums ranked by physical and digital sales and (from March 2015) audio streaming in the United Kingdom. It was published for the first time on 22 July 1956 and is compiled every week by the Official Charts C ...
.
2012–present: ''Super Critical'' and ''The Black Light''
The band went to Ibiza in September 2012 to begin writing and recording material for their third studio album, which they worked on through in April 2013. They travelled to New York City to mix and master the album in September 2013. In October 2013, the band stated they had nearly finished mixing their third album and were planning to record numerous music videos. They released a club remix of the first single, "
Wrong Club" through
SoundCloud
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in April 2014; the single was released to download in July. The duo's third studio album, ''
Super Critical
''Super Critical'' is the third studio album by English indie pop duo The Ting Tings, released on 24 October 2014 by Finca Records. "Wrong Club" was released as the lead single from the album on 15 August 2014, followed by "Do It Again" on 22 Sep ...
'', was released in October 2014. The band's 2015 US tour was cancelled in June 2015 as a result of a hand injury suffered by White. As of March 2018, The Ting Tings have been more active on social media, eventually announcing their new album ''
The Black Light
''The Black Light'' is the second studio album by American indie rock band Calexico. It was released May 19, 1998 on Quarterstick.
Track listing
Personnel
;Calexico
* Joey Burns – vocals, double bass, guitar, cello, mandolin, accordio ...
'' (which was released on 26 October 2018) via their Instagram story.
Members
Katie White
Katherine Rebecca "Katie" White (born 1983 in
Lowton
Lowton is a suburban village within the Metropolitan Borough of Wigan, in Greater Manchester, England. It is around from Leigh, south of Wigan and west of Manchester city centre. The settlement lies across the A580 East Lancashire Road.
...
, England) was brought up on a farm in Lowton, and attended Lowton School, which has a large
performing arts
The performing arts are arts such as music, dance, and drama which are performed for an audience. They are different from the visual arts, which are the use of paint, canvas or various materials to create physical or static art objects. Perform ...
department. In 1995, White's grandfather Ken (of whom Katie saw little) won £6.6 million from the then-newly established
National Lottery and gave each of his three sons £1 million.
Katie's father David used his share of the money to purchase a haulage company, and he helped Katie during her school years as a prospective musician.
Jules De Martino
Julian "Jules" De Martino (born 1969 in
London
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) began playing drums at age 13.
He studied fine art at
Loughton College in
Essex
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and signed a minor publishing deal with Morrison Leahy Music (who also publish George Michael). He formed a band, Mojo Pin, which was influenced by artist
Jeff Buckley
Jeffrey Scott Buckley (November 17, 1966 – May 29, 1997), raised as Scott Moorhead, was an American singer, songwriter, and guitarist. After a decade as a session guitarist in Los Angeles, Buckley amassed a following in the early 1990s by ...
. The band released two indie singles: "You" and "My Imagination", with Lowlife Records and toured with Irish band the Big Geraniums in 1997.
Discography
* ''
We Started Nothing
''We Started Nothing'' is the debut studio album by English indie pop duo The Ting Tings. It was released on 16 May 2008 by Columbia Records. The US edition has a different cover image in several background colours. The album was also released ...
'' (2008)
* ''
Sounds from Nowheresville
''Sounds from Nowheresville'' is the second studio album by English indie pop duo The Ting Tings, released on 24 February 2012 by Columbia Records. It was by preceded the lead single " Hang It Up", which was released on 27 December 2011. Althoug ...
'' (2012)
* ''
Super Critical
''Super Critical'' is the third studio album by English indie pop duo The Ting Tings, released on 24 October 2014 by Finca Records. "Wrong Club" was released as the lead single from the album on 15 August 2014, followed by "Do It Again" on 22 Sep ...
'' (2014)
* ''The Black Light'' (2018)
Awards and nominations
References
External links
*
;Interviews and reviews
The Ting Tings 'We Walk' review
The Ting Tings interviewin ''Coed'' magazine from 17 June 2008.
Students interview The Ting Tings directly after their Glastonbury 2008 performance for Radiowaves.co.uk.
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2007 establishments in England
British indie pop groups
Columbia Records artists
Dance-punk musical groups
English dance music groups
English indie rock groups
English musical duos
English synth-pop groups
Female-fronted musical groups
Ivor Novello Award winners
Musical groups established in 2007
Musical groups from Greater Manchester
Roc Nation artists
Rock music duos
Male–female musical duos
Music in Salford