Stuart thoughts after the Ting Tings gig is that; they were brilliant and their new songs from the new album is good if not better than the old songs. He disagrees with the notion that The Ting Tings became popular because their songs were used in adverts. He would rate their performance 9.5 out of ten.
Everyone knows their name now, well, the ‘Ting Tings’ part of it anyway. Made up of boy-girl duo Katie (not Stacy) White and Jules De Martino, the electro-pop band performed a one-off show at London’s Scala on Tuesday 28th February. The performance coincides nicely with the release of their new album ‘Sounds from Nowheresville’ – the successor to their double platinum selling LP ‘We Started Nothing’. The band spent a persistent two years touring and promoting their material before settling back down into the now unfamiliar surroundings of the studio to create the Nowheresville sounds – mostly in Southern Spain. Perfectionists by nature, the pair threw away a host of songs they created in Berlin, as they didn’t meet the standards they aimed to reach with their second album release. After finding the fun again, the pair relaxed and nailed track after track – which fans can look forward to hearing later in the week. Still most recognised for their number one singles ‘That’s Not My Name’, ‘Great DJ’ and ‘Shut Up and Let Me Go’, The Ting Tings found their tracks being used as the soundtrack for peoples’ lives, via radio playlists and club nights – as well as on various show and film playlists like ‘Gossip Girl’ and Oscar-winning ‘Slumdog Millionaire’. That first ‘We Started Nothing’ album was, thankfully for them, a superstitious negative, as they did indeed start something – the double platinum release saw them nominated for ‘Best New Artist’ at the Grammy’s as well as securing an esteemed Ivor Novello Award in 2009 for ‘Best Album’. How did fans find their material tonight, no doubt packed with sneak-peeks off the new LP and dotted with their party-starting classics, mentioned above – we find out how the new sound compares.