"I think the "going
wrong" part of it really helped to shape this band,"
adds Katie. "In a way the frustration from it, that's a
blessing in disguise in itself. If we hadn't gone through that
frustration, I don't know if we would have been doing what we
are doing now or even music at all."
Usually when bands come to tour the first album, under the nurturing
of the label the band would be performing songs that had been
with them for some time. Though in what seems in the fast meteoric
rise of the Ting Tings by any chance are any of the songs felt
as old? Apparently not!
"They are all new songs," begins Jules. "Not
because we didn't go and say "Let's start writing some
new songs and lets start a band. Katie never played guitar before
in her life and I went back on my drums for the first time in
ages," states Jules. "I had played guitar before,
so being on stage with us doing grooves was completely new.
It was like there was no kind of relevance to anything we've
done before. I taught Katie the chord 'D' and I had a couple
of loops around me and I was really enjoying playing the drums
again and Katie was doing my head in playing the same chord
for three hours."
He stops to laugh and is joined by a slightly embarrassed Katie.
"I was thinking, "Just change the chord at least."
Katie did try but didn't know what to do and sought of clumped
her hand around the neck and played this other chord, which
was the second chord in 'Great DJ'. From that point we still
weren't a band. We had done the parties and had planned to do
some more because we owed money and people were talking about
coming to them. So that’s where the writing started."
The fact that people were showing an interest obviously made
a difference.
"I think Manchester is really supportive
as long as you're good," begins Katie. >> |
