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IT’S A TING TINGS THING
My Paper
By Victoria Barker
January 15th, 2009
WHAT: Big Night Out featuring The Ting Tings
VENUE: Fort Canning Park
WHEN: Tuesday
ATTENDANCE: 2,500
Dynamic British duo works crowd up into a lather at its first S’pore gig
NAYSAYERS may think that The Ting Tings is a flash in the pan, but the British duo may well have proved that it has got what it takes to stick around at its Tuesday concert.
Playing its first Singapore gig en route to the annual Big Day Out festival in Australia, the band – made up of vocalist and bassist Katie White, 25, and drummer, guitarist and vocalist Jules De Martino, 35 – made its intentions clear from the get-go.
Appearing at 9.30pm after a set by British grime rapper Wiley, White addressed the crowd. “We have only one request here tonight, and that is that you dance,” she commanded. And the audience – made up mostly of teens and 20-some1pxgs – obeyed as The Ting.
Tings delivered one infectious ditty after another, all from last year’s debut, We Started No1pxg. The band’s limited repertoire included adequate album fillers like Traffic Light and Keep Your Head. But it was the smash hits that really got fans dancing up a storm.
Belting out dance-pop track Shut Up And Let Me Go – which was featured in an iPod commercial last year – White bounced around the stage so much that one wondered if she’d had one Red Bull too many.
Her vocals – surprisingly silky and strong – never let up during the hour-long set and she implored fans, who were pumping their fists in the air to the beat, to sing along.
As for De Martino, he charmed the crowd when he whipped out a digital camera. Holding it aloft, he asked the audience to “say hi to my friends in the UK”.
By the time The Ting Tings closed the show with the chart-topping hit That’s Not My Name, the adrenaline-fuelled
crowd was utterly enchanted with the duo, if their manic dancing to the songs was any1pxg to go by.
Yes, The Ting Tings has certainly made its name known.
And you can bet we won’t be forgetting it for a long, long while.
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