The Ting Tings
Named after a Chinese friend whose name sounds like the Mandarin pronunciation of bandstand, the Ting Tings -- a scrappy, dance-oriented duo consisting of singer/guitarist Katie White and drummer Jules De Martino -- formed in the Salford district of Manchester, England in 2006. Prior to forming the group, the pair worked together in 2001 when White was in the all-female punk-pop group TKO and De Martino wrote some songs for them. Later the pair reunited, and with another friend formed the trio Eskimo Kiss, which signed to Mercury Records but disbanded, in part due to changing personnel at the label. De Martino and White regrouped, working on their own music and others' at Salford's music commune The Islington Mill. Quickly signed to the local indie label Switchflicker Records, the Ting Tings released their debut single, That's Not My Name, in the spring of 2007. Following the limited-edition, tour-only single Fruit Machine, the Ting Tings signed to major-label Columbia later that year. The flipside of the Switchflicker single, Great DJ, was released as the duo's debut Columbia single in March 2008, followed by the reissue of That's Not My Name with a new exclusive B-side remix. That's Not My Name rose to the top of the U.K. charts in May 2008, the same month that the duo's debut album, We Started Nothing, appeared. The Ting Tings spent the rest of 2008 and a large part of 2009 touring in support of the album, which eventually sold over two million copies worldwide, won the 2...
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Top Tracks
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That's Not My Name
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Shut Up and Let Me Go
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Great DJ
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Be the One
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We Walk
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Fruit Machine
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Keep Your Head
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Traffic Light
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We Started Nothing
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Impacilla Carpisung
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Hands
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Hang It Up
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Hit Me Down Sonny
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Silence
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Soul Killing
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Give It Back
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Wrong Club
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Guggenheim
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Great DJ (Calvin Harris Remix)
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One By One
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Day To Day
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Help
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In Your Life
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Silence (Bag Raiders Remix)
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Do It Again
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Hang It Up (Inertia Remix)
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Give It Back (Demo)
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Super Critical
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Standing in The Way of Control
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Communication
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Ain’t Got Shit
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Hang It Up (Shook Remix)
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Great DJ (7th Heaven Remix)
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Hang It Up (CKB Remix)
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That's Not My Name (Tom Neville's Nameless Vocal Mix)
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Daughter
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Only Love
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That's Not My Name (LA Riots Remix)
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Anyway I Can
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Failure
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Wabi Sabi
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Green Poison
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Hang It Up - Abacus & Vargas 'Predator' Remix
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Great DJ (Original Radio Edit)
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Happy Birthday
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Guggenheim - Got It Right Mix
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Hang It Up (Abacus & Vargas 'Predator' Remix)
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Be The One - Single Mix
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Great DJ (Acoustic)
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That's Not My Name (Soul Seekerz Radio Mix)
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