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The Ting Tings Quotes - Katie White
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| (On the origins of the band name) "I thought it was lovely... It can also refer to the sound of innovation or an open mind. Like the 'ting' you hear when you get an idea." |
| (On her childhood) "It's so cold and so boring that there's nothing to do. So all you do is sit and make music. It's just grey skies. I really did just spend my entirechildhood bored. I listened to really rubbish music growing up, don't know why. Bad music, bad pop. Whatever crap was on the local radio. I grew up as a teenager in the 1990s so girl bands and boy bands were all the rage. I had a Spice Girls pencil case." |
| (On Dear Eskiimo) "It went completely wrong" |
| (describing Islington Mill) "Everybody hangs out and gets inspired by each other." |
| "We didn't know what sound we were looking for. We didn't even plan on being a band because we'd had such a horrible time in the music industry with the previous group. We didn't think anybody would be interested in what we did, so we wrote songs for ourselves to play to our friends at the Mill. Two years ago, when I came to the Mill, I started to listening to Talking Heads, the Tom Tom Club, LCD Soundsystem, all these really interesting bands I'd never heard of. Talking Heads were the biggest influence. Jules liked more songsmith experimental stuff. I converted Jules to pop music and he's converted me to really like interesting music." |
| "It's really quite free how we can perform. We just watch each other and telepathically know where we want to take it so it's different every time we perform. I can tell by his drumming and I think he can tell by my guitar playing." |
| "I couldn't play an instrument, so I picked his guitar up and played a D chord for about four hours just learning rhythm and I put my finger on the wrong string and made this weird chord which eventually turned into Great DJ, our first pop song." |
| "At the first one, there were 25 artists in the Mill and a couple of friends. At the second one, they told a hundred of their friends. The third one was advertised on local radio, which was really weird because it was a house gig. And, on the fourth one, the head of Sony America came and sat on the floor with all the UK music industry people. It happened really quickly and really unexpectedly." |
| "We didn't expect this to happen. I think that's why it worked. Because we were so carefree we just made the music for us, not for anybody else. We just wrote songs that we loved. It's all going really well and I don't know what it all means. We're just going to go blow the wind. We got this far without pre-planning or sitting down with battle plans." |
| (on touring with the band) "I swear a lot more. I don't burp and fart in public, but it's getting that way. You definitely lose a few airs and graces. I came home to see my mum a few months ago and I was walking round Sainsbury's and she's like, 'My god, what's happened to you?'" |
| "We get 14-year-olds down the front dancing like crazy, then further back it's the students half dancing and then at the back there's discerning older gentlemen, nodding." |
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