The Ting Tings

The Ting Tings Radio

Music

FEATURED SONG

Play
Play Next
Add to queue

Hit Me Down Sonny

Album: Sounds From Nowheresville [Explicit]

Released: Jan 1, 2012

Label: columbia

1. Play
2. Play Next
3. Add to queue
Hit Me Down Sonny
2:51
2,951 plays
1. Play
2. Play Next
3. Add to queue
Hang It Up [Explicit]
3:12
7,097 plays
1. Play
2. Play Next
3. Add to queue
Soul Killing
3:16
3,203 plays
1. Play
2. Play Next
3. Add to queue
That's Not My Name
5:12
15,891,868 plays
1. Play
2. Play Next
3. Add to queue
Shut Up And Let Me Go
2:52
13,750,785 plays

Total Plays: 49,425,492 / Plays Today: 181See All Featured ►

Videos

Latest Blog Entries

Mar 22, 2012 5:40 PM "Sounds From Nowheresville" Out Now!
Mar 9, 2012 4:28 PM "Sounds from Nowheresville" Available Tuesday!
Feb 28, 2012 6:59 PM Listen to "Sounds from Nowheresville" Radio On WE7
Feb 28, 2012 3:29 PM Bring Your "Sounds from Nowheresville" Album Cover To Life!
Feb 13, 2012 2:33 PM UK fans: Pre-order Sounds from Nowheresville out February 27

Top Friends (8)

Shows & Events

7 upcoming shows/events

DEMAND

Bring The Ting Tings to your city!

May 26

Pinkpop Festival

Landgraaf, NLD
May 27

Kesselhaus

Berlin, Berlin, DE
Find Tickets
May 28

Gruenspan, Supporting NADA SURF

Hamburg, DE
Find Tickets
May 30

Skive Festival

Skive, Nordjyllan, DK
Jun 1

Rock Im Park

Nuremburg, Nuremburg, GERMANY
Jun 2

Rock am Ring Festival

Nürnberg, Bavaria, GERMANY
Jun 3

Den Atelier

Luxembourg, Luxembourg, lu

General Info

Genre: Alternative / Pop
Location Salford, Northwest, United Kingdom
Profile Views: 13409293
Last Login: 5/24/2012
Member Since 11/13/2006
Website www.thetingtings.com
Record Label columbia
Type of Label Major
Bio
At the start of 2011, The Ting Tings had a scrap it all moment with their label boss Rob Stringer in New York. In a piece of dynamic, off the cuff A&R wizardry you kind of don't quite believe happens anymore in the music industry, Stringer heard a demo of a song they were working on and told them not to worry about writing hits. He specifically instructed them to forget their commercial instincts. 'If that sounds weird now,' says Katie, 'imagine how it sounded at the time? But in a way it makes sense. He wants a label that bands want to sign to. He understands the idea of building a home for artists.' They moved from the thawing ice of Berlin to the dustbowl of late Spring in Murcia, Southern Spain. Album number 2, which is probably, nominally album number 3, took up an immediate shake of pace. Fourth gear cranked in. Katie and Jules wrote the album benchmark Hit Me Down Sonny in a day. 'The melody, the rhythm section, the arrangement, everything just fell into place,' says Jules, 'Everything before that had been a struggle. Suddenly it wasn't. Every time Katie went up to the booth she was nailing it. The lyrics were happening. The whole weight of our shoulders was lifted. This was enjoyable again. It was being dictated by its own energy again.' The question is rhetorical. Musically, Sounds From Nowheresville has really let The Ting Tings rip. On Silence there are echoes of the chamber pop synthesizer riffs of OMD, the raw buzz of The Rezillos and more familiar Ting Tings influences Tom Tom Club doing battle within the confines of a perfect 3 minute pop song.
Members
Jules - drums & vocals , Katie - vocals & guitar & bass drum
Influences
Gorillaz, Talking heads, Blondie, Dresden Dolls, Tom Tom club, The Police, Cabaret, Bjork, singing in the rain, Joni Mitchell, Kate Bush , the Velvet underground-Nico!, the Beatles, Beck, The Eels.
Sounds Like
A Ting

More ▼Less ▲

7 upcoming shows/events

Bring The Ting Tings to your city!

Bio

Members

Influences

Sounds Like

Login