Ting Tings Downstairs in the depths of The Soundhaus
the Ting Tings, a band formed from house parties, are getting
to grips with sitting on the leather sofa and answering some
questions.
The current high media
attention or success expectations surrounding the band were
never expected.
"I kept thinking nobody would ever want to hear us,"
says Katie White rather humbly. "I'll keep saying that
in interviews 'cause I like it.”
"I can't believe that from sitting and painting and doing
these parties, we're on planes all the time. We're terrible
fliers," admits a smiling Jules De Martino.
The necessity of plane hopping will be explained later. Though
as you've undoubtedly learnt already from other interviews the
pair previously trod the boards in the music industry under
the moniker 'Dear Eskimo'. When things didn't work out and the
band was subsequently dropped, they set about working at the
Islington Mill in Salford.
"The band disbanded and we didn't speak much," recalls
Jules. "For me it was the end of being in a band. I was
thinking about time off, getting a job and getting past the
next six months with all the cleaning up, you know with the
label, management, settlement. That period for me was dull.
I remember Katie telling me that we should "hook up"
or "write some more songs because we wrote well together
in the last band." January lasy year was the first time
we did that."
Does that mean that talking about Dear Eskimo would be a touchy
subject?
"We don't mind," explains Jules smiling. "It
was still a period of our lives. Apart from doing the record
bit where it went wrong, it was great being in a band. We were
working. As musicians you just want to work, get a gig and have
an audience and Dear Eskimo gave us that. So we went out a little
bit and we made ourselves. We had a bit of fun and unfortunately
we signed a record deal and it all went wrong. We learned from
a lot of mistakes off that." >>
