The Ting Tings are an English indie/electronic band, consisting of two members: Jules De Martino (drums, vocals) and Katie White (vocals, guitar, bass drum). They formed in 2006 while based at Islington Mill, Salford.

Katie White first appeared, as a teenager, in girl group TKO - short for Total Knock Out. Jules De Martino started out in a teenage band called Babakoto, and released a single called "Just To Get By" in 1987.

The Tings Tings started out playing private parties at The Mill, Salford (a building that is home to artists and emerging creative ventures dealing in everything from fine art to theatre and film); which ended up as some of the most sought after tickets on the Manchester party scene - with various A&R reps and record producers, such as American Rick Rubin who worked for the Red Hot Chili Peppers and Johnny Cash, asking for tickets.

They had a notable performance at Glastonbury Festival 2007, and after an October 2007 tour of universities in the UK with Reverend and the Makers, signed for Columbia Records, and appeared on Later with Jools Holland on 14 December 2007.

In January 2008 they were voted third in the annual BBC 6 Music poll of industry experts Sound of 2008, for acts to emerge in the coming year.

The first single released on Columbia was Great DJ, which received considerable airplay on new music stations BBC Radio 1 and Xfm in the UK; and hyped by magazines such as the NME. The band performed a live set at Radio 1's Big Weekend in Maidstone, Kent, which was made available by the BBC's online video player application iPlayer.

The bands' debut album, We Started Nothing, was released on 19 May 2008. Shortly after the release of the album, the band released a statement on the social network service MySpace which explained to fans that their single "That's Not My Name" had reached number 1 in the UK Singles Charts.

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