Ting Tings Will Wait To Write Second Album

Another band that blew up in the past year has been The Ting Tings. This British duo has played a tons of shows including SXSW, played on numerous late night shows in the US, and have also had sold out shows in the US. Their song, “Shut Up And Let Me Go” was even featured in an iPod commercial.

With all the success, fans have already gotten antsy for another album but it sounds like the writing process for a sequel to their debut album, We Started Nothing, will begin a little later than we’d like.

Vocalist, Katie White, tells BBC:

We have to lock ourselves away a bit, go and see lots of different things, like art and bands, and just get inspired [...] It’s not inspiring in hotel rooms. So we consciously made an effort to not write. We have ideas and we have song titles and things we want to say but we’ve not actually turned them into songs yet.

Drummer, Jules DeMartino adds:

I think we’ll be more experimental because we can bring new instruments in. I think we’ve got to reinvent that by bringing some new instruments again that we don’t play [...] We’d like to do a bit of recording in Berlin and in Paris, in Salford of course and maybe a bit in New York as well. So we make makeshift studios in spaces, and throw parties and record off the back of those again.

So, no writing to start until AFTER the tour… When does that end? Well, so far it’s just these tour dates below! Check them out:

12/31 New York @ NBC’s New Years Eve Special hosted by Carson Daly
01/13 Fort Canning Park @ Big Night Out
01/16 Auckland @ Big Day Out
01/18 Gold Coast @ Big Day Out
01/21 Sydney @ Metro
01/26 Melbourne @ Big Day Out
01/28 Melbourne @ Prince of Wales
02/01 Perth @ Big Day Out
02/03 Hong Kong @ Hi-Tec Star Hall
02/05 Osaka @ Namba Hatch
02/07 Tokyo @ Shibuya AX
02/08 Nagoya @ Diamond Hall
02/25 Glasgow @ Academy Glasgow
02/26 Manchester @ Apollo Manchester
03/01 Leeds @ Academy Leeds
03/02 Wolverhampton @ Civic Hall Wolverhampton
03/03 Portsmouth @ Guildhall Portsmouth
03/05 Swindon @ Oasis Centre Swindon
03/06 London @ Brixton Academy London

And the writing begins? …Let’s hope so!