The Ting Tings
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The Ting Tings performing at the Mod Club Theatre in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, 14 March 2009
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| Origin | Salford, Greater Manchester, England, UK |
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| Years active | 2007–present |
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The Ting Tings are an English indie pop duo from Salford, Greater Manchester, formed in 2007. The band consists of Katie White (vocals, guitar, bass drums, bass guitar, cowbells) and Jules De Martino (drums, lead guitar, bass guitar, vocals, piano).
The duo's debut studio album, We Started Nothing, was released on 19 May 2008 by Columbia Records and peaked at number one on the UK Albums Chart. The album spawned four singles, including "That's Not My Name", which reached number one on the UK Singles Chart in May 2008. Their second studio album, Sounds from Nowheresville, was released in February 2012, with the lead single "Hang It Up" released on 16 January 2012. Their third studio album, Super Critical, was released in October 2014.
Katie White started her music career as a school-time hobby in a girl group punk trio 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. 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 area. The pair, along with friend Simon Templeman, went on to form the Portishead-influenced trio Dear Eskiimo, who signed to Mercury Records. However, due to a change of directors and managers, the management style of the record label caused them to split. The experience left White and De Martino with a distrust of the music industry.
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