After several years of waiting, The Ting Tings are finally back this year with a new album called Sounds From Nowheresville, that will be released on February 27th in UK and USA (march 5th in France). I liked their debut album We Started Nothing so I must say that I've been desperately waiting for a new album !
They stoped by Paris last wednesday at the Flèche d'Or. Their show was initially planned at the Nouveau Casino but it has been moved to allow more people to come. Still it was more like a intimate and "private" gig for the promotion of Sounds From Nowheresville since the venue wasn't that big.
Positive point, there was no opening act but the waiting in the venue was long anyway. They finally came on stage around 9pm with Give it Back. People including me started to take pictures with cameras but we have been forced to stop, even if we weren't using any flash. I think they wanted to avoid their new material to end up on Internet. I don't blame anyone, but still what's the point of playing gigs before the release of an album ? I mean, Coldplay had no problems this summer playing new stuff even if their album was released 4 months later. So you'll understand the lack of good pictures and videos on the article, I only could use my phone.
Anyway, let's focus on the gig itself. They seemed happy to be in Paris, Katie White even said a few words in French to present the show and came close to us several times. They were energetic and played with the crowd. The atmosphere was great and in the middle of the gig, the crowd started to wish happy birthday to Katie (even though her birthday was supposed to be on March 3rd according to Wikipedia). Jules De Martino alternated synthetizer, guitar and drums and Katie, syntetizer and guitar. At the end of one song, Katie threw one of her guitar up in the air and broke it. Later I read on Twitter a Tweet from Jules saying: "Last night was rocking! K split her Gibson Eye in two, my fav guitar of hers now dead! Thank you Paris. J".
They played songs from their debut album such as Great DJ, Fruit Machine or We Walk and some new songs like Guggenheim, Silence and Hang it Up, their new single. The remix they did to Hands was really cool ! I enjoyed it as I enjoyed one of their new songs, Hit Me Down Sonny, I look forward listening to it again now ! Of course they played their biggest hits Shut Up And Let Me Go and That's Not My Name, we all had fun singing the lyrics with Katie on these two songs.
In brief the concert was great but a little bit short in my opinion. It lasted less that an hour. I regret that they did not sing Be The One. I have no videos to show you this time but if I remember well, I think I've seen a video camera filming. So maybe with luck we'll see the live footage later ?
Here is the setlist of the show:
1 comment:
Great review and pics (even though you were limited)! Looking forward to seeing them in SF soon.
Jason
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